PMID: 22568196May 10, 2012Paper

Meningitis and chosen complications of neonatal period in preterm neonates born to single or multiple pregnancies

Ginekologia polska
Magdalena MiedzińskaMaria Beata Czeszyńska

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between meningitis and neonatal period of complications such as massive intraventricular hemorrhage and into brain tissue, hypoxic-ischemic white matter injury retinopathy of prematurity 3-5 degrees and deafness in infants born prematurely from single and multiple pregnancies. The retrospective study covered 460 preterm infants born to single pregnancies and 280 infants born prematurely with multiple pregnancies, hospitalized in the Clinic of Neonatology PUM in the years: 2005-2008. There were no statistically significant differences between the frequency of occurrence: peri/intraventricular hemorrhages (IVH) III degrees and IV degrees, hypoxic-ischemic injury in white matter, retinopathy of prematurity 3-5 degrees and hearing loss in newborns of both groups. Meningitis was diagnosed in 35 (7.92%) newborns from singleton pregnancy and in 9 (3.25%) with a multiple pregnancy. It was found that the risk of meningitis was significantly greater in infants with body weight less than 1000 grams (OR 4.18), and born under 28 weeks of gestation (OR = 5.07), regardless of group affiliation. We found a statistically significant correlation between the occurrence of meningitis and neon...Continue Reading

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