Extreme neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in refugee and migrant populations: retrospective cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe neonatal survival and long-term neurological outcome in neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia (NH) with extreme serum bilirubin (SBR) values.

Design

Retrospective chart review, a one-off neurodevelopmental evaluation.

Setting

Special care baby unit in a refugee camp and clinics for migrant populations at the Thailand-Myanmar border with phototherapy facilities but limited access to exchange transfusion (ET).

Patients

Neonates ≥28 weeks of gestational age with extreme SBR values and/or acute neurological symptoms, neurodevelopment evaluation conducted at 23-97 months of age.

Main outcome measures

Neonatal mortality rate, prevalence of acute bilirubin encephalopathy (ABE) signs, prevalence of delayed development scores based on the Griffiths M

SUBMITTER: Wouda EMN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7264833 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature