Progressive ventricular dilation (PVD) continues to cause appreciable mortality and morbidity in extremely premature infants, despite a slight reduction in overall incidence of the disease in the 1990s.
United States researchers say the major predictor of adverse short-term outcome in PVD is the severity of germinal matrix intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH) in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. They included adverse death or need for surgical intervention as short-term outcomes.
Investigators from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, identified all VLBW infants with IVH admitted to neonatal intensive care units at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital, both in Boston, and Christchurch Women’s Hospital in New Zealand between September 1994 and September 1997.
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