Brain Volumes of Very Low Birth Weight Infants Measured by Cranial Ultrasonography

Zekai Tahir Burak Women's Health Research and Education Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Infant, Premature

Treatments

Device: Cranial ultrasonography

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02848755

2016-Cr-USG-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Neonatal cranial ultrasound (US) remains the method of choice to detect brain injury in high risk preterm infants on neonatal intensive care units (NICU). It is a non-invasive, inexpensive bedside tool and examinations can be repeated as often as necessary without major disturbance of vulnerable infants. The anterior and posterior fontanelles from excellent acoustic windows to examine the deep midline and periventricular regions of the brain.Some data demonstrated that cerebral palsy can be accurately predicted with US. However, cranial US is not very suitable for investigating cortical regions or structures in the posterior fossa. There is limited data for very preterm infants.The investigators aimed to measure ventricular index, cranial height, biparietal diameter and calculate brain volume in a huge number of infants.

Enrollment

341 patients

Sex

All

Ages

1 day to 40 weeks old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria