Periventrucular-intra ventricular hemorrhage in the newborn

ABSTRACT

In a retrospective study spanning 4 years[1404-1407H] and including a total of 11, 050 births, the incidence of periventricular/intraventricular hemorrhage [PVH/IVH] in infants born at King Khalid University Hospital at or before 35 weeks of gestation was 20.9% and in those weighing 1500 g or less at birth was 40.8%. Incidence, grade, associations, and outcome of infants suffering PVH/IVH were tabulated. Most common was grade 1 hemorrhage; PVH/IVH was most frequently seen in infants born between 26 and 30 week's gestation [42.5%] and in those weighing between 500 and 750[g] [42.9%] at birth. Respiratory distress syndrome was associated in 81.3% of the infants with PVH/IVH