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Perinatal brain damage causationOlaf Dammann
Perinatal Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, OE 6415, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Dev Neurosci 29:280-8. 2007..We hope that our critical discussion will contribute to fruitful research and help reduce the burden of perinatal brain damage...
SNAP-II and SNAPPE-II and the risk of structural and functional brain disorders in extremely low gestational age newborns: the ELGAN studyOlaf Dammann
Division of Newborn Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Mass 02111, USA
Neonatology 97:71-82. 2010..Illness severity measures predict death and illnesses in the newborn. It is unknown how well they predict brain lesions evident on ultrasound scans or neurodevelopmental dysfunctions in preterm infants...- Happiness reconsidered in children with cerebral palsyOlaf Dammann
Department of Pediatrics, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Lancet 369:2137-8. 2007 - Neuregulin-1: a potential endogenous protector in perinatal brain white matter damageOlaf Dammann
Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, Mass, USA
Neonatology 93:182-7. 2008..We outline how NRG-1 might be involved in perinatal brain damage pathomechanisms and suggest that NRG-1 might be one target for intervention... - Neuregulin-1, the fetal endothelium, and brain damage in preterm newbornsInsa Hoffmann
Pediatric Pulmonology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Brain Behav Immun 24:784-91. 2010..To assess the potential role for Neuregulin-1 (NRG1) as a systemic endogenous protector in the setting of perinatal inflammatory brain damage... 
Does bronchopulmonary dysplasia contribute to the occurrence of cerebral palsy among infants born before 28 weeks of gestation?Linda J Van Marter
Newborn Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 96:F20-9. 2011..To evaluate the relationships among cerebral palsy (CP) phenotypes and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) severity and, in the process, to generate hypotheses regarding causal pathways linking BPD to CP...- The clustering of disorders in infants born before the 28th week of gestationAlan Leviton
Neurology Department, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Acta Paediatr 99:1795-800. 2010..To see whether disorders prevalent in infants born extremely preterm cluster... - Maternal obesity, gestational hypertension, and preterm deliveryJuliette Madan
Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 23:82-8. 2010..To study maternal obesity as a risk factor for preterm delivery... - Neuregulin-1 high-producer genotype is associated with a decreased risk of admission to the neonatal intensive care unitElizabeth P Pleickhardt
Division of Newborn Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Early Hum Dev 86:299-304. 2010..Neuregulin (NRG1) is a developmental growth factor and homozygous C allele carriers at the NRG221533 locus are at reduced risk for developmental disability... - Elevated concentrations of inflammation-related proteins in postnatal blood predict severe developmental delay at 2 years of age in extremely preterm infantsT MICHAEL O'SHEA
Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
J Pediatr 160:395-401.e4. 2012..To evaluate the hypothesis that elevated levels of inflammation-related proteins in early postnatal blood predict impaired mental and motor development in extremely preterm infants... - Patterns of blood protein concentrations of ELGANs classified by three patterns of respiratory disease in the first 2 postnatal weeksMatthew Laughon
Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
Pediatr Res 70:292-6. 2011..Inflammation might influence the risk of EPPD and PD or be a consequence of lung damage or therapies to minimize lung dysfunction... - Persistence after birth of systemic inflammation associated with umbilical cord inflammationAlan Leviton
Department of Neurology, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Reprod Immunol 90:235-43. 2011.... - Blood protein concentrations in the first two postnatal weeks associated with early postnatal blood gas derangements among infants born before the 28th week of gestation. The ELGAN StudyAlan Leviton
Department of Neurology, Children s Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cytokine 56:392-8. 2011..To explore the relationships between blood gas derangements and blood concentrations of inflammation-related proteins shortly after preterm birth... - The relationship between early concentrations of 25 blood proteins and cerebral white matter injury in preterm newborns: the ELGAN studyAlan Leviton
Neuroepidemiology Unit, Department of Neurology, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Pediatr 158:897-903.e1-5. 2011..To evaluate whether concentrations of inflammation-related proteins are elevated in the blood of preterm newborns who develop cerebral white matter damage... - Cranial ultrasound lesions in the NICU predict cerebral palsy at age 2 years in children born at extremely low gestational ageKarl C K Kuban
Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Child Neurol 24:63-72. 2009..Nearly half the cerebral palsy identified at 2 years is not preceded by a neonatal brain ultrasound abnormality... - Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome mutations and risk of breast cancerNatalia Bogdanova
Gynecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Int J Cancer 122:802-6. 2008..1; 95%CI 1.4-6.6) and indicate that the 657del5 deletion and perhaps the R215W substitution contribute to inherited breast cancer susceptibility in Central and Eastern Europe... - Immaturity, perinatal inflammation, and retinopathy of prematurity: a multi-hit hypothesisOlaf Dammann
Division of Newborn Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Early Hum Dev 85:325-9. 2009..To explore the relationship among markers of infection/inflammation in their association with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)... - Cluster analysis of placental inflammatory proteins can distinguish preeclampsia from preterm labor and premature membrane rupture in singleton deliveries less than 28 weeks of gestationJessica M Faupel-Badger
Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 7105, USA
Am J Reprod Immunol 66:488-94. 2011..The risks of complications are different between iatrogenic (e.g. PE) and spontaneous (e.g. PL and membrane rupture) causes of preterm delivery, suggesting different underlying biology contributes to these placental conditions... - Neonatal cranial ultrasound lesions and developmental delays at 2 years of age among extremely low gestational age childrenT MICHAEL O'SHEA
Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Pediatrics 122:e662-9. 2008..Studies of the relationship between ultrasound images from preterm newborns and developmental delay most often are based on small samples defined by birth weight and exclude infants not testable with standardized assessments... - Early blood gas abnormalities and the preterm brainAlan Leviton
Neuroepidemiology Unit, Neurology Department, Children s Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 5724, USA
Am J Epidemiol 172:907-16. 2010..Findings suggest that individual blood gas derangements do not increase brain damage risk. Rather, the multiple derangements associated with indicators of brain damage might be indicators of immaturity/vulnerability and illness severity... - Interinstitutional variation in prediction of death by SNAP-II and SNAPPE-II among extremely preterm infantsOlaf Dammann
Division of Newborn Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Pediatrics 124:e1001-6. 2009..Illness severity scores predict death among infants admitted to NICUs. We know of no study limited to a population defined by an extremely low gestational age... - Neurodevelopment of extremely preterm infants who had necrotizing enterocolitis with or without late bacteremiaCamilia R Martin
Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
J Pediatr 157:751-6.e1. 2010..To evaluate neurodevelopment after necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and late bacteremia, alone and together... - Neonatal bacteremia and retinopathy of prematurity: the ELGAN studyKristi Washburn Tolsma
Division of Newborn Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children, Tufts Medical Center, 800 Washington St, PO Box 854, Boston, MA 02111 1526, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 129:1555-63. 2011..To explore whether early or late and presumed or definite neonatal bacteremia are associated with an increased risk of severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)... - Inflammatory brain damage in preterm newborns--dry numbers, wet lab, and causal inferencesOlaf Dammann
Perinatal Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Early Hum Dev 79:1-15. 2004..We also need more (and more detailed) observational studies clarifying the presumed infection --> inflammation --> WMD sequence before we can initiate intervention trials to reduce the risk of WMD... - Lung and brain damage in preterm newborns. Are they related? How? Why?Olaf Dammann
Departments of Obstetrics and Pediatrics, Perinatal Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Biol Neonate 85:305-13. 2004..g. postnatal steroid exposure) that increase the risk for developmental disability in childhood... - Bronchopulmonary dysplasia is not associated with ultrasound-defined cerebral white matter damage in preterm newbornsOlaf Dammann
Department of Obstetrics, Prenatal Medicine and Gynecology, Hannover Medical School, 30623 Hannover, Germany
Pediatr Res 55:319-25. 2004..Confounding does not seem to account for this lack of association between WMD and BPD. In conclusion, our findings do not support the hypothesis that BPD contributes to the occurrence of sonographically defined WMD... - Fetal growth restriction and chronic lung disease among infants born before the 28th week of gestationCarl Bose
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Pediatrics 124:e450-8. 2009..There is now increasing interest in exposures and events before delivery that predict CLD. The objective of this study was to identify current prenatal predictors of CLD... - Infection, oxygen, and immaturity: interacting risk factors for retinopathy of prematurityMinghua Chen
Division of Newborn Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111 1526, USA
Neonatology 99:125-32. 2011..Interactions among known risk factors for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) remain to be clarified... - Systemic hypotension and white-matter damage in preterm infantsOlaf Dammann
Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 44:82-90. 2002..In sum, these results do not support the hypothesis that systemic hypotension contributes to echolucency among preterm infants... - Lung and brain damage in preterm newborns, and their association with gestational age, prematurity subgroup, infection/inflammation and long term outcomeOlaf Dammann
Perinatal Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Pediatrics, OE 6415 Hannover Medical School, 30623 Hannover, Germany
BJOG 112:4-9. 2005..In this paper we discuss the complexities that paediatricians, perinatologists and perinatal epidemiologists face as they try to understand the contributions of factors associated with preterm birth to neonatal and childhood disorders... - Placenta microbiology and histology and the risk for severe retinopathy of prematurityMinghua L Chen
Division of Newborn Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111 1526, USA
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 52:7052-8. 2011..To test the hypothesis that the presence of bacteria and/or histologic inflammation in the placenta of infants born preterm is associated with an increased risk for severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)... - Chorioamnionitis, mechanical ventilation, and postnatal sepsis as modulators of chronic lung disease in preterm infantsLinda J Van Marter
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Pediatr 140:171-6. 2002.... - Antenatal mycoplasma infection, the fetal inflammatory response and cerebral white matter damage in very-low-birthweight infantsOlaf Dammann
Hannover Medical School, Germany
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 17:49-57. 2003..Our finding that M. hominis in the placenta was associated with a not quite significant threefold risk increase for echolucency deserves further investigation... - Endoplasmic reticulum stress, inflammation, and perinatal brain damageWolfgang Bueter
Perinatal Neuroepidemiology Unit OE 6415, Departments of Obstetrics and Pediatrics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Pediatr Res 66:487-94. 2009..Perhaps by these events, noninflammatory stimuli lead to perinatal brain damage... - Inflammation-related proteins in the blood of extremely low gestational age newborns. The contribution of inflammation to the appearance of developmental regulationAlan Leviton
Neurology Department, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Cytokine 53:66-73. 2011..We wanted to assess to what extent concentrations of circulating proteins appear to be developmentally regulated, and to what extent such regulation is influenced by intra-uterine inflammation... - Inflammation-initiating illnesses, inflammation-related proteins, and cognitive impairment in extremely preterm infantsT MICHAEL O'SHEA
Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Brain Behav Immun 29:104-12. 2013..We conclude that elevated blood concentrations of inflammation-related proteins provide information about the risk of impaired cognitive function at age 2 years that supplements information provided by inflammation-associated illnesses... - Two-hit model of brain damage in the very preterm newborn: small for gestational age and postnatal systemic inflammationAlan Leviton
Department of Neurology, Boston Children s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatr Res 73:362-70. 2013..We sought to disentangle the contributions of perinatal systemic inflammation and being small for gestational age (SGA) to the occurrence of low Bayley Mental Development Indices (MDIs) at the age of 2 y... - Systemic responses of preterm newborns with presumed or documented bacteraemiaAlan Leviton
Department of Neurology, Children s Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215 5349, USA
Acta Paediatr 101:355-9. 2012.... - Inflammation, brain damage and visual dysfunction in preterm infantsOlaf Dammann
Perinatal Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Gynecology, Hannover Medical School, OE 6415, 30623 Hannover, Germany
Semin Fetal Neonatal Med 11:363-8. 2006.... - Simulation of intra-amniotic infection and the fetal inflammatory response in a novel ex-vivo human umbilical cord perfusion modelSarah Hassan
Pediatric Pulmonology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Reprod Sci 17:426-33. 2010..We aimed to design and test an ex-vivo human umbilical cord (HUC) perfusion model simulating a fetal inflammatory response (FIR) during intra-amniotic infection... - NEUROBID--an EU-funded project to study the developing brain barriersWolfgang Bueter
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Int J Dev Neurosci 28:411-2. 2010..In the long term, NEUROBID hopes to pave the way for new treatment strategies and thus reduce the economic and social burden of neurological disease... - High or low oxygen saturation and severe retinopathy of prematurity: a meta-analysisMinghua L Chen
Division of Newborn Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Box 854, 800 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111 1526, USA
Pediatrics 125:e1483-92. 2010..High oxygen saturation seems to reduce the risk at later postmenstrual ages (PMAs). However, previous clinical studies are not conclusive individually... - Cytokines and perinatal brain damageOlaf Dammann
Division of Newborn Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Clin Perinatol 35:643-63, v. 2008..Events associated with increased circulating inflammatory cytokines, chemokines, and immune cells are described. Finally, studies of genetic variation in susceptibility to cytokine-related brain damage are reviewed... - ErbB receptors in fetal endothelium--a potential linkage point for inflammation-associated neonatal disordersWolfgang Bueter
Department of Pediatrics, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str.1, 30623 Hannover, Germany
Cytokine 36:267-75. 2006.... - Perinatal infection, fetal inflammatory response, white matter damage, and cognitive limitations in children born pretermOlaf Dammann
Neuroepidemiology Unit, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev 8:46-50. 2002..We conclude that the relationship between antenatal infection and cognitive limitations deserves much further attention by researchers interested in the prevention of this undesirable outcome of prematurity... - Presumed and definite bacteremia in extremely low gestational age newbornsSonal Patel
Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Acta Paediatr 100:36-41. 2011..To explore risk patterns for presumed and definite, early and late neonatal bacteremia... - Risk of cranial ultrasound abnormalities in very-low-birth-weight infants conceived with assisted reproductive techniquesJane E Stewart
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Perinatol 22:37-45. 2002..CONCLUSION: VLBW infants conceived with ART do not appear to be at increased risk of cranial ultrasound abnormalities. Likewise, twins and triplets were not at increased risk of these abnormalities... - Multiplex measurement of cytokine/receptor gene polymorphisms and interaction between interleukin-10 (-1082) genotype and chorioamnionitis in extreme preterm deliveryJulia Kerk
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
J Soc Gynecol Investig 13:350-6. 2006..5 - 191). CONCLUSION: The presence of both CAM and IL10(-1082)*G might play a role in extreme preterm delivery less than 29 weeks... - Fetal inflammatory response and brain injury in the preterm newbornShadi Malaeb
Division of Newborn Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
J Child Neurol 24:1119-26. 2009..Neuroinflammatory injury not only destroys what exists but also changes what develops... - Perinatal infection, inflammation, and retinopathy of prematurityJennifer Lee
Division of Newborn Medicine, Box 44, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, 800 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111 1526, USA
Semin Fetal Neonatal Med 17:26-9. 2012..Strategies targeting inflammatory responses might help reduce the risk for ROP in extremely low gestational age newborns... - White matter damage impairs adaptive recovery more than cortical damage in an in silico model of activity-dependent plasticityPamela L Follett
Floating Hospital for Children, Tufts Medical Center, and Department of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
J Child Neurol 24:1205-11. 2009..Better understanding of the interaction between features of preterm brain injury and developmental plasticity is an essential component for improving recovery... - Impact of motor skills on cognitive test results in very-low-birthweight childrenHeike Losch
Neuroepidemiology Unit, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Child Neurol 19:318-22. 2004..Future studies need to evaluate whether factor scores only for cognitive but not motor abilities might be useful outcome variables... - Magnetic resonance and ultrasound brain imaging in preterm infantsT MICHAEL O'SHEA
Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Early Hum Dev 81:263-71. 2005..In this review we describe how well findings from these two imaging modalities agree with histology findings and neuro-developmental outcome. In addition, we discuss studies comparing ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging findings... - The adaptive immune response in neonatal cerebral white matter damageAlan Leviton
Neuroepidemiology Unit, Children s Hospital Boston, 1 Autumn Street, Boston, MA 02215 5349, USA
Ann Neurol 58:821-8. 2005..These include specific recognition of bacterial antigens, specific recognition of autoantigens, polyclonal activation by Toll-like receptors, and bystander activation by cytokines... - Absence of pestivirus antigen in brains with white matter damageOlaf Dammann
Perinatal Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Dev Med Child Neurol 48:290-3. 2006..Further research is needed to test the hypothesis that intrauterine exposure to pestivirus antigen elicits a fetal inflammatory response which then contributes to WMD... - Hospital volume and neonatal mortality among very low birth weight infantsDorothee B Bartels
Department of Obstetrics, Social Medicine and Health System Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Pediatrics 117:2206-14. 2006..We hypothesized that neonatal mortality would be higher in small NICUs (< 36 very low birth weight admissions per year) than in large NICUs, with adjustment for volume of the delivery unit... - Persistent neuro-inflammation in cerebral palsy: a therapeutic window of opportunity?Olaf Dammann
Perinatal Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, OE6415, Department of Obstetrics, Hannover Medical School, 30623 Hannover, Germany
Acta Paediatr 96:6-7. 2007 - Anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory strategies to protect the perinatal brainAdam J Wolfberg
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Semin Fetal Neonatal Med 12:296-302. 2007..Further research on the possible neuroprotective roles of existing medications and substances is necessary... - Maternal obesity and neonatal Apgar scoresMinghua Chen
Division of Newborn Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 23:89-95. 2010..To determine whether maternal obesity in early pregnancy is associated with low neonatal 5-min Apgar scores while adjusting for confounders... - Coagulation, inflammation, and the risk of neonatal white matter damageAlan Leviton
Neuroepidemiology Unit, Children s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatr Res 55:541-5. 2004.... - Evidence-based child neurologyOlaf Dammann
Perinatal Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Obstetrics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Dev Med Child Neurol 48:622-4. 2006..Therefore, evidence-based child neurology might benefit not only from the therapeutic, but also from the diagnostic and etiological components of epidemiology... - Maternal fever at birth and non-verbal intelligence at age 9 years in preterm infantsOlaf Dammann
Department of Obstetrics, Prenatal Medicine, and General Gynecology, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Dev Med Child Neurol 45:148-51. 2003..8, 0.97 to 14.6). We conclude that perinatal infection might indeed contribute to an increased risk for long-term cognitive deficits in preterm infants... - The wealth of information conveyed by gestational ageAlan Leviton
Children's Hospital and Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Pediatr 146:123-7. 2005 - Protein detection in dried blood by surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF MS)Christiane E L Dammann
Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Biol Neonate 89:126-32. 2006..The method is easy to perform in large groups of newborns, minimizing the amount of blood needed for biomarker studies. The validity and reproducibility of this method needs to be studied in detail... - Paediatric neurology: the many faces of developmentOlaf Dammann
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Lancet Neurol 6:12-4. 2007 - Association of two mutations in the CHEK2 gene with breast cancerNatalia Bogdanova
Gynecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Int J Cancer 116:263-6. 2005..Family history of breast cancer did not differ between carriers and noncarriers. Our data indicate that the I157T allele, and possibly the IVS2+1G > A allele, of the CHEK2 gene contribute to inherited breast cancer susceptibility... - Policy benchmarking report on neonatal health and social policies in 13 European countriesMatthias Keller
Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology, University Hospital Essen, Germany
Acta Paediatr 99:1624-9. 2010..In Europe, the prevalence rate of premature birth ranges from 5.5 to 11.4% - an average of 7.1% of all live births. In this report, we aim to compare the current health and social policies, as well as practices in 13 EU member states... - An algorithm for identifying and classifying cerebral palsy in young childrenKarl C K Kuban
Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
J Pediatr 153:466-72. 2008.... - Neuroimaging and the prediction of outcomes in preterm infantsOlaf Dammann
N Engl J Med 355:727-9. 2006 - Periventricular leukomalacia might not specifically affect cortical magnetoencephalographic response to biological motionOlaf Dammann
Ann Neurol 60:269; author reply 269-70. 2006 - Preconditioning and the developing brainHenrik Hagberg
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Women s and Children s Health, Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden
Semin Perinatol 28:389-95. 2004..Preconditioning of the brain or induction of tolerance of the immune system might be utilized in the future to decrease CNS vulnerability and the occurrence of perinatal brain injury... - NEOBRAIN--an EU-funded project committed to protect the newborn brainOlaf Dammann
Neonatology 92:217-8. 2007 - Antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli sepsisOlaf Dammann
Pediatr Infect Dis J 23:978-9; author reply 979-80. 2004 - Biomarker epidemiology of cerebral palsyOlaf Dammann
Ann Neurol 55:158-61. 2004 - Neurological sequelae in in-vitro fertilisation babiesAlan Leviton
Lancet 360:718; author reply 719. 2002