Early Ultrasonic Monitoring of Brain Growth and Later Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Very Preterm Infants.

Victoria A A Beunders Jorine A Roelants J Suurland Jeroen Dudink Paul Govaert R M C Swarte Marlou Raets Irwin K M Reiss Koenraad F M Joosten Minerva J Taeubert

Published in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2022)

Both corpus callosum-fastigium and corpus callosum length on cranial ultrasound are associated with neurodevelopmental outcome of very preterm infants without brain injury at 2 years, but only corpus callosum length shows the added clinical utility in predicting neurodevelopmental outcome.

Keyphrases

preterm infants
brain injury
low birth weight
subarachnoid hemorrhage
cerebral ischemia
magnetic resonance imaging
congenital heart disease
white matter
computed tomography
multiple sclerosis
blood brain barrier