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Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 28, No. 7, 302-310 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288902800702

Very-low-birth-weight, Preterm Infants With or Without Intracranial Hemorrhage

Neurologic, Cognitive and Cranial MRI Correlations at 4-8-year Follow-up

Lisa M. Ford, MD

Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurology, ASB-3N, Elland Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229-2899

B. Kim Han, MD

Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurology, ASB-3N, Elland Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229-2899

Jean Steichen

Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurology, ASB-3N, Elland Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229-2899

Diane Babcock, MD

Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurology, ASB-3N, Elland Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229-2899

Harold Fogelson, MD

Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurology, ASB-3N, Elland Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229-2899

Fourteen very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) preterm infants with and without intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) were prospectively followed from birth to 4 to 8 years for the purpose of determining neurologic and cognitive sequelae associated with ICH severity and to correlate outcomes with brain morphology as determined by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

Intracranial hemorrhage was documented by cranial ultrasonography performed in early life. Follow-up assessments included neurologic and psychometric examinations and cranial MRI scans. Of six children with no ICH, five had normal results on all three follow-up measures. Three children with Grade I-II ICH had mild to moderate neurologic and cognitive sequelae with focal white matter MRI abnormalities. Five children with Grade III-IV ICH had severe neurologic, cognitive, and MRI deficits, including MRI regional and diffuse white matter abnormalities and/or cortical atrophy. Focal and diffuse neurologic deficits correlated with the extent of MRI morphologic abnormalities.

Results of this study indicate that ICH severity correlated with outcomes in children at follow-up ; the more severe the ICH, the more adverse the neurologic, cognitive, and MRI results. MRI white matter abnormalities were present in all children with any degree ICH, while ventriculomegaly was seen only in severe ICH (Grade III-IV ICH). Neurologic deficits correlated with MRI structural abnormalities.


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