L Rautava

..To determine whether birth and care in the highest-level hospitals (level III) compared with birth in or postnatal transfer to lower-level hospitals (level II) are associated with 5-year morbidity in very preterm children...

..Thus, the survival advantage in level III hospitals seems not to be gained at the expense of behavioural or developmental problems...

..We aimed to study the effect of prematurity, time of birth and level of birth hospital on morbidity and the use of health care services at age 5...

..Cry characteristics of preterm infants after the first year of life have not been studied...

..To investigate the effect of preterm birth, the time of birth, and birth hospital level and district on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs)...

..Our goal was to test the hypothesis that the level of the delivery hospital affects 1-year mortality of very preterm infants in Finland...

..To evaluate the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and both brain volumes and head circumference in very-low-birth-weight/very-low-gestational-age infants...

..The aim of this study was to analyse the relation between ventricular dilatation at term and neurodevelopmental outcome at 2 years corrected age in infants of very low birthweight (VLBW) or very low gestational age (VLGA)...

..To evaluate the effect of gestational age and prematurity-related morbidities on hospital costs and cost per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) during the first 4 years of life...

..To study neurodevelopmental outcome at 2 years of corrected age in very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) (< or = 1500 g) preterm infants with abnormal fetoplacental flow...

..This is the first study to describe the relation between maternal attachment representations and the quality of mother-infant interaction involving preterm infants...

..We assessed the effects of very preterm birth (gestational age <32 weeks or birth weight <1501 g) and prematurity-related morbidities on health care costs during the fifth year of life...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate associations between infant crying, holding and mother-infant interaction...

..To study cognitive outcome of premature, very low birth weight (VLBW) infants in relation to parental education and neonatal data...

..To assess the long-term developmental outcome of very low birth weight children with postnatally developing caudothalamic cysts...

..In conclusion, altered brain volumes at term equivalent age appear to affect development still at 5 years of age. The FTF seems to be a good instrument when used in combination with other neuropsychological assessment...

..In addition, rehospitalization rate within the first year from the initial discharge was studied...

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..To evaluate the association between infant fussing and crying and developmental outcome in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants...

..Abnormalities on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) have been shown to be associated with perinatal white-matter injury and reduced fractional anisotropy (FA) has been reported in patients with sensorineural hearing loss...

..The aim of this study was to assess the relationship among the size of the lateral ventricles, head-circumference measure, and brain volumes. In addition, the association between ventricular dilatation and various brain lesions was defined...

..009, 0.009, respectively). The association of IL-6 -174 and -572 genetic polymorphisms with smaller volumes in deep gray matter provides us new ways to understand the processes leading to neurologic impairments in preterm infants...

..To evaluate the association between histologic inflammation of placenta and brain findings in ultrasound examinations and regional brain volumes in magnetic resonance imaging in very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) or in very preterm infants...