Clinical utility of corpus callosum measurements in head sonograms of preterm infants: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT: To assess the clinical usefulness of measurement of corpus callosum (CC) size in head ultrasound (HUS) to predict short-term neurodevelopmental (ND) outcomes in preterm infants. We hypothesised that including CC measurements in routine HUS will be an additional tool for early identification of infants at risk of adverse short-term ND outcome, over and above the predictive power of perinatal morbidities. Retrospective cohort study. Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and outpatient NICU follow-up clinic of an academic medical centre in New York City. 929 HUS of 502 infants with gestational age of 23-36 weeks in African-American infants were initially studied. Exclusion criteria included those who died, had gross abnormalities in HUS, infants with race other than African-American,

SUBMITTER: Perenyi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3641469 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature