Death or Survival with Major Morbidity in VLBW Infants Born at Brazilian …

Guinsburg R, de Almeida MF, de Castro JS, Silveira RC, Caldas JP, Fiori HH, do Vale MS, Abdallah VO, Cardoso LE, Alves Filho N, Moreira ME, Acquesta AL, Ferrari LS, Bentlin MR, Venzon PS, Gonçalves Ferri WA, Meneses Jdo A, Diniz EM, Zanardi DM, Dos Santos CN, Bandeira Duarte JL, Rego MA. Death or survival with major morbidity in VLBW infants born at Brazilian neonatal research network centers. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2016 Mar;29(6):1005-9. doi: 10.3109/14767058.2015.1031740. Epub 2015 Apr 2. PMID: 25812674.

Objective
To analyze unfavorable outcomes at hospital discharge of preterm infants born at Brazilian public university centers.

Methods
Prospective cohort of 2646 inborn infants with gestational age 23-33 weeks and birth weight 400-1499 g, without malformations, born at 20 centers in 2012-2013. Unfavorable outcome was defined as in-hospital death or survival at hospital discharge with ≥1 major morbidities: bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) at 36 corrected weeks, intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) grades 3-4, periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) or surgically treated retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

Results
Among 2646 infants, 1390 (53%) either died or survived with major morbidities: 793 (30%) died; 497 (19%) had BPD; 358 (13%) had IVH 3-4 or PVL; and 84 (3%) had ROP. Logistic regression adjusted by center showed association of unfavorable outcome with: antenatal steroids (OR 0.70; 95%CI 0.55-0.88), C-section (0.72; 0.58-0.90), gestational age <30 (4.00; 3.16-5.07), being male (1.44; 1.19-1.75), small for gestational age (2.19; 1.72-2.78), 5th-min Apgar <7 (3.89; 2.88-5.26), temperature at NICU admission <36.0 °C (1.42; 1.15-1.76), respiratory distress syndrome (3.87; 2.99-5.01), proven late sepsis (1.33; 1.05-1.69), necrotizing enterocolitis (3.10; 2.09-4.60) and patent ductus arteriosus (1.69; 1.37-2.09).

Conclusions
More than half of the VLBW infants born at public university level 3 Brazilian hospitals either die or survive with major morbidities.

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