Prognosis of small-for-date infants.
10.2185/jjrm.38.1
- VernacularTitle:土浦協同病院におけるＳＦＤ児の予後
- Author:
Jun KOHYAMA
;
Chikao FUKUDA
;
Yoshiro URUTA
;
Shin TONOUCHI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Symmetrical IUGR
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1989;38(1):1-5
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
We retrospectively studied the physical and neurological prognoses of 51 small-for-date infants (SFD) who had been taken care in our faculty during the neonatal period. The values of physical measurements of SFD at one and two years of age were both significantly smaller than those of the controlled appropriate-for-date infants. Majority of infants with symmetrical intrauterine growth retardation, whose head circumferences at birth were under -1.5 S. D., showed many complications during the neonatal period, for example; hypoglycemia and polycytemia, and their neurological prognoses were poorer than those with asymmetrical intrauterine growth retardation. To improve these grave prognoses, we stressed the necessity of the system which can provide strict maternal and neonatal care as well as the continuous observation even during the grownup under the co-operation of obstetrician and pediatrician.
