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Published on: June 11, 2020
Preterm infants with video-EEG confirmed seizures: outcome at 30 months of age
Francesco Pisani1, Angela Luciana Barilli, Lisa Sisti
1Child Neuropsychiatric Unit, Neuroscience Department, University of Parma, Italy. francesco.pisani@unipr.it
Objective:
Our aim was to identify early predictors of poor neurodevelopmental outcome and of subsequent epilepsy in very early preterm and late preterm newborns with neonatal seizures.
Study Design:
Fifty-one preterm infants with gestational age (GA)
Results:
Ten infants had a favorable outcome, 17 died, and 23 had an adverse outcome. One infant was lost on follow-up. Apgar score at 1 min (O.R.=15.457, 95% CI: 2.236-106.850, p=0.006) and severely abnormal background EEG activity (O.R.=8.298, 95% CI: 1.316-52.301, p=0.024) were independent predictors of abnormal outcome. Nine infants presented post-neonatal epilepsy. Severely abnormal Cerebral Ultrasound scans were predictive of epilepsy (O.R.=13.72, 95% CI: 1.959-96.149, p=0.008).
Conclusions:
Neonatal seizures in preterm infants are associated to a high rate of mortality and severe morbidity in survivors but no definitive differences between the two groups of preterm infants were found. Risk-factors for development of subsequent epilepsy are strongly related to the underlying brain damage.
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