Growth monitoring of very low-birth weight infants
Very low-birth weight (VLBW) infants suffer significant perinatal and neonatal morbidity. The survival of VLBW infants has improved over the past few decades. However, their long-term growth and neurodevelopmental outcome remain a cause of concern. Conventionally, their growth is plotted on intraute...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2012-01-01
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Series: | Current Medicine Research and Practice |
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Online Access: | http://www.cmrpjournal.org/article.asp?issn=2352-0817;year=2012;volume=2;issue=5;spage=270;epage=274;aulast=Modi |
Summary: | Very low-birth weight (VLBW) infants suffer significant perinatal and neonatal morbidity. The survival of VLBW infants has improved over the past few decades. However, their long-term growth and neurodevelopmental outcome remain a cause of concern. Conventionally, their growth is plotted on intrauterine growth charts, which have universally shown a growth lag during the neonatal period. Subsequently, many of these neonates catch-up in growth during infancy and childhood. Both poor postnatal growth and a rapid catch-up during early childhood have been associated with adverse long-term outcomes. There is still no clarity on what the optimal growth pattern for these infants should be. There is a need to develop population-specific longitudinal growth charts to monitor the long-term growth of VLBW infants. |
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ISSN: | 2352-0817 2352-0825 |