ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To compare neurodevelopment (ND) in 3 cohorts of extremely preterm infants: untreated with normal blood pressure (BP), untreated with low BP, and treated with low BP. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a retrospective study of infants 23 to 25 weeks gestation. Low BP was defined as >or=3 mean arterial pressures Subject(s)
Developmental Disabilities/epidemiology
, Hypotension/epidemiology
, Hypotension/therapy
, Blood Pressure
, Cardiotonic Agents/therapeutic use
, Cerebral Palsy/epidemiology
, Comorbidity
, Deafness/epidemiology
, Female
, Fluid Therapy
, Gestational Age
, Glucocorticoids/therapeutic use
, Humans
, Hypotension/diagnosis
, Hypotension/physiopathology
, Infant, Newborn
, Infant, Premature
, Infant, Premature, Diseases
, Intensive Care Units, Neonatal/statistics & numerical data
, Male
, Retrospective Studies
, Severity of Illness Index
, Survival Rate
, Treatment Outcome
, Urban Population/statistics & numerical data