Only sparse information is available about a possible association between antenatal infection
outside the brain and subsequent cognitive limitations among preterm infants. Based on …

Background Deep hypothermia with either total circulatory arrest or low-flow cardiopulmonary
bypass is used to support vital organs during heart surgery in infants. We compared the …

Background—It is not known whether developmental and neurological outcomes in the
preschool period differ depending on whether the predominant vital organ support strategy used …

Background Neonatal hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy is an important cause of death as
well as long-term disability in survivors. Erythropoietin has been hypothesized to have …

Objective To test the hypothesis that postoperative length of stay (LOS) after infant heart
surgery might be an easily measured surrogate marker for various events that culminate in later …

Inflammatory phenomena seem to contribute to the occurrence of perinatal cerebral white
matter damage and CP. The stimulus that initiates the inflammation remains obscure. One …

To evaluate prenatal and perinatal risk factors for development of germinal matrix
hemorrhage-intraventricular hemorrhage (GMH-IVH), we conducted a prospective epidemiologic …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate neurodevelopment after necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and late
bacteremia, alone and together. STUDY DESIGN: Sample included 1155 infants born at 23 to …

Background—The outcome of infants who have transient seizures after open heart surgery
has not been studied. Using the database of the Boston Circulatory Arrest Study involving …

OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that children born preterm are more likely to screen positive
on the M-CHAT for an autism spectrum disorder. STUDY DESIGN: We compared the M-…