Impact of chorioamnionitis on short- and long-term outcomes in very low birth weight preterm infants: the Neonatal Research Network Japan

References

• Shennan AH, Bewley S. Why should preterm birth be rising? BMJ 2006;332:924–5
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kusuda S, Fujimura M, Sakuma I, et al. Morbidity and mortality of infants with very low birth weight in Japan: center variation. Pediatrics 2006;118:1130–8
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lahra MM, Jeffery HE. A fetal response to chorioamnionitis is associated with early survival after preterm birth. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2004;190:147–51
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hillier SL, Martius J, Krohn M, et al. A case-control study of chorioamnioitic infection and histologic chorioamnionitis in prematurity. N Eng J Med 1988;319:972–8
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• van Hoeven KH, Anyaegbunam A, Hochster H, et al. Clinical significance of increasing histologic severity of acute inflammation in the fetal membranes and umbilical cord. Pediatr Pathol Lab Med 1996;16:731–44
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Kent A, Lomas F, Hurrion E, Dahlstrom JE. Antenatal steroids may reduce adverse neurological outcome following chorioamnionitis: neurodevelopmental outcome and chorioamnionitis in premature infants. J Paediatr Child Health 2005;41:186–90
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Willouhgby RE Jr, Nelson KE. Chorioamnionitsi and brain injury. Clin Perinatol 2002;29:603–21
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• ACOG Committee on Practice Bulletin-Obstetrics. ACOG Practice Bulletin No.127. Management of preterm labor. Obstet Gynecol 2012;119:1308–17
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Blanc WA. Pathology of the placenta, membranes, and umbilical cord in bacterial, fungal, and viral infections in man. In: Naeye RL, Kissane JM, Kaufman N, eds. Perinatal diseases. Internal Academy of Pathology Monograph. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins; 1981:67–132
   Google Scholar
• Papile L, Burstein J, Burstein R, Koffler H. Incidence and evolution of subependymal and intraventricular hemorrhage; a study of infants with birth weights less than 1500. J Pediatr 1978;92:5229–534
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ng PC, Lee CH, Lam CWK, et al. Transient adrenocortical insufficiency of prematurity and systemic hypotension in very low birthweight infants. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2004;89:119–26
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bell MJ, Ternberg JL, Feigin RD, et al. Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis. Therapeutic decision based upon clinical staging. Ann Surg 1978;187:1–7
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kono Y, Mishita J, Yonemoto N, et al. Outcomes of very-low-birthweight infants at 3 years of age born in 2003–2004 in Japan. Pediatr Int 2011;53:1051–8
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bax MC. Terminology and classification of cerebral palsy. Dev Med Child Neurol 1964;6:295–7
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Society for the Kyoto Scale of Psychological Development Test. Shinpan K shiki Hattatsu Kensahou 2001 Nenban (The Kyoto Scale of Psychological Development Test 2001). Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan; 2008 (in Japanese)
   Google Scholar
• Mishita J. Protocols for follow-up of high-risk infants. Perinat Med 2000;30:1263–72 (In Japanese)
   Google Scholar
• Grether JK, Nelson KB, Walsh E, et al. Intrauterine exposure to infection and risk of cerebral palsy in very preterm infants. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2003;157:26–32
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yoon BH, Jun JK, Romero R, et al. Amniotic fluid inflammatory cytokines, neonatal brain white matter lesions, and cerebral palsy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1997;177:19–26
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yoon BH, Park CW, Chaiworapongsa T. Intrauterine infection and the development of cerebral palsy. BJOG 2003;110:124–7
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Leviton A. Preterm birth and cerebral palsy: in tumor necrosis factor the missing link? Dev Med Child Neurol 1993;35:553–8
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yoon BH, Romero R, Park JS, et al. Fetal exposure to an intra-amniotic inflammation and the development of cerebral palsy at the age of three years. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2000;182:675–81
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nelson KB, Grether JK, Dambrosia JM, et al. Neonatal cytokines and cerebral palsy in very preterm infants. Pediatr Res 2003;53:600–7
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Andrews WW, Cliver SP, Biasini F, et al. Early preterm birth: association between in utero exposure to acute inflammation and severe neurodevelopmental disability at 6 years of age. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2008;198:466e1–11
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jacobsson B, Hagberg G, Hagberg B, et al. Cerebral palsy in preterm infants: a population-based case-control study of antenatal and intrapartal risk factors. Acta Paediatr 2002;91:946–51
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shatrov JG, Birch SC, Lam LT, et al. Chorioamnionitis and cerebral palsy. A meta-analysis. Obstet Gynecol 2010;116:387–92
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Suppiej A, Franzoi S, Vedovato S, et al. Neurodevelopmental outcome in preterm histological chorioamnionitis. Early Hum Dev 2009;85:187–9
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Elvira OG van Vliet, de Kleviet JF, van der Voorn, et al. Placental pathology and long-term neurodevelopment of very preterm infants. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2012;206:489.e1–7
   Google Scholar
• Been JV, Rours IGIJG, Kornelisse RF, et al. Histologic chorioamnionitis, fetal involvement, and antenatal steroid: effects on neonatal outcome in preterm infants. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2009;201:587.e1–8
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilson-Costello D, Friedman H, Minich N, et al. Improved neurodevelopmental outcomes for extremely low birth weight infants in 2000–2002. Pediatrics 2007;119:37–45
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Isayama T, Lee SK, Mori R, et al. Comparison of mortality and morbidity of very low birth weight infants between Canada and Japan. Pediatrics 2012;130:e957–65
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kusuda S, Fujimura M, Uchiyama A, et al. Trends in morbidity and mortality among very-low-birth-weight infants from 2003 to 2008 in Japan. Pediatr Res 2012;72:531–8
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lyon A. Chronic lung disease of prematurity. The role of intra-uterine infection. Eur J Pediatr 2000;159:798–802
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar