REFLECTIONS ON THE ESTIMATION OF CENTRAL HEMODYNAMICS IN DEEPLY PREMATURED NEWBORNS

Keywords: prematured infants, cardio-vascular system, echocardiography.
Abstarct: Objective - to develop standard basis for the estimation of echocardiographic indices in deeply prematured newborns. Material and methods. On the 5 th day of postnatal life 41 infants with very low body mass (n = 34) and extremely low body mass (n = 7) were examined by echocardiography. Morphofunctional indices of cardio-vascular system/body mass ratio were calculated in order to compare infants with different anthropometric data; the data were presented as centile distribution with allocation of 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90 and 95 procents. Results and discussion. Centile distribution of echocardiographic indices in deeply prematured newborns was obtained in the course of statistic analysis; it is recommended to use as reference base. Conclusion. Use of morphofunctional indices of cardio-vascular system which are normalized by body mass increased informative value of echocardiographic examination in babies with very low body mass and extremely low body mass.

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