Linked Life Data

6492684

Source:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/id/6492684

Statements in which the resource exists as a subject.
PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-11-30
pubmed:abstractText
Seizures in premature babies pose a special problem which occur more often than in term neonates. The data of 156 neonates weighing less than 2 500 grams consecutively admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit during a 6 month period were evaluated. 33 infants (21%), of whom 21 were less than 31 weeks of gestational age suffered from seizures. Almost all of these 33 infants had a very bad outcome. Only 9 of them survived and only 4 showed normal development. In 26 infants a CT or brain autopsy was performed. The outcome was influenced by the presence of intraventricular haemorrhage. But even those preterm neonates without morphological abnormalities of the brain have only a small chance of developing normally in the presence of seizures. The EEG is an important diagnostic tool: Most of the patients showed paroxysmal activity. The background activity of the interictal EEG has prognostic value even in the preterm infant. There is, however, discrepancy between the EEG and the morphological findings. Therefore the EEG has to be seen as functional test which gives important additional information beyond brain imaging methods.
pubmed:language
ger
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0300-8630
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
196
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
293-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
[Seizures in premature and newborn infants under 2,500 grams birth weight].
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract