Diagnosis and treatment of small-for-gestational-age infants based on clinical practice guideline and expert consensus / 基础医学与临床

ABSTRACT

Infants of small-for-gestational-age have high rate of mortality and morbidity in perinatal period , high risk of metabolic syndrome in adult .However , there is a lack of consensus about the diagnosis and treatment of small-for-gestational age in China .We make a literature review for the definition , risk factors, growth hormone ther-apy, evaluation before and after growth hormone therapy , short-time and long-time complications of small-for-gesta-tional-age in all the clinical practice guideline and expert consensus available all over the world , aiming at providing useful information in clinical practice .