The continuing problem of post-hemorrhagic ventricular dilation in infants born prematurely

In this volume of The Journal of Pediatrics, 3 articles are devoted to a life-altering condition in infants born prematurely: severe brain hemorrhage with post-hemorrhagic ventricular dilation (PHVD). Infants with extreme prematurity are particularly vulnerable to this condition and Shankaran et al assembled a cohort of 815 infants born in 2011-2015 at ≤26 weeks of gestation with PHVD and followed them to 18-26 months. The high rates of death or neurodevelopmental impairment reported in this cohort obligate us to find new approaches to help infants recover from severe brain injury and improve outcomes.
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: The Editors' Perspectives Source Type: research