Journal article

Publication year: 2001

Pages: 1153-115+

Journal: Der Gynäkologe

Volume number: 34

Issue number: 12

ISSN: 0017-5994

eISSN: 1433-0393

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001290101075

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 

The etiology of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is heterogenous. It's consequences with regard to the postnatal outcome especially in very preterm neonates with IUGR - have not been fully elaborated.

Clinical studies failed to show an increased rate of cerebral complications, i.e., severe intracranial hemorrhage and/or periventricular leucomalacia, in very preterm neonates born small-for-gestational age (SGA) compared to infants born appropriate-for-gestational age (AGA). With regard to neonatal pulmonary morbidity, no differences in the initial severity of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) have been demonstrated whereas the incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia was higher in very preterm SGA-infants than in very preterm AGA-infants.

The data on postnatal growth realignment are inconclusive. SGA infants were shown to have a small decrement in intelligence test scores at the age of 17 compared to their AGA peers. An association between low birth weight and an increased risk of developing a metabolic syndrome in adult life has also been demonstrated. Therefore, strategies for primary and secondary prevention have to be elaborated.

Harvard Citation style: Gortner, L., van Husen, M. and Landmann, E. (2001) Postnatal development of infants with intrauterine growth restriction, Der Gynäkologe, 34(12), pp. 1153-115+. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001290101075

APA Citation style: Gortner, L., van Husen, M., & Landmann, E. (2001). Postnatal development of infants with intrauterine growth restriction. Der Gynäkologe. 34(12), 1153-115+. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001290101075