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OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between the cause or severity of hypotension and the development of severe ROP (sROP) (≥stage 3 or stage 2 with plus disease in zone I or II). STUDY DESIGN: Infants (<28 weeks' gestation, n = 242) were observed for hypotension and treated with a standardized hypotension-treatment protocol. Hypotension was classified as resulting from one of the following causes: (1) culture-positive infection and/or necrotizing enterocolitis; (2) patent ductus arteriosus ligation; or (3) "idiopathic" (no cause identified other than prematurity), and as being either dopamine responsive or dopamine resistant. Cortisol levels were measured for infants with dopamine-resistant hypotension. Eye examinations were performed until the retinopathy of prematurity resolved or the vasculature matured. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to determine the relationship between the cause/severity of hypotension and sROP. RESULTS: Overall, 66% of infants developed hypotension (41% were dopamine responsive and 25% were dopamine resistant). sROP developed in 19% of infants. "Idiopathic" dopamine-resistant hypotension was the only cause significantly related to sROP. Of the infants with dopamine-resistant hypotension, 66% had low serum cortisol (≤10 µg/dL). Low cortisol, in the presence of dopamine-resistant hypotension, was significantly associated with sROP and accounted for the relationship between "idiopathic" hypotension and sROP. When low cortisol was included in statistical models, other known risk factors, such as immature gestation, were no longer significantly related to sROP. CONCLUSION: Low cortisol, in the presence of dopamine-resistant hypotension, has the greatest magnitude of association with sROP.
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Dopamina/uso terapêutico , Hipotensão/complicações , Hipotensão/tratamento farmacológico , Retinopatia da Prematuridade/etiologia , Resistência a Medicamentos , Feminino , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Recém-Nascido Prematuro , Masculino , Estudos Prospectivos , Índice de Gravidade de DoençaRESUMO
Although black race is considered protective against hyperbilirubinemia, black infants appear at increased risk of kernicterus. We found that although black infants have a lower risk of developing total serum bilirubin levels ≥ 20 mg/dL than white infants, they appear at greater risk of developing levels ≥ 30 mg/dL.
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Bilirrubina/sangue , Hiperbilirrubinemia/complicações , Hiperbilirrubinemia/etnologia , Icterícia Neonatal/sangue , População Negra , Humanos , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , Icterícia Neonatal/complicações , Fatores de RiscoRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether a change in the approach to managing persistent patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) from early ligation to selective ligation is associated with an increased risk of abnormal neurodevelopmental outcomes. STUDY DESIGN: In 2005, we changed our PDA treatment protocol for infants born at ≤27 6/7 weeks' gestation from an early ligation approach, with prompt PDA ligation if the ductus failed to close after indomethacin therapy (period 1: January 1999 to December 2004), to a selective ligation approach, with PDA ligation performed only if specific criteria were met (period 2: January 2005 to May 2009). All infants in both periods received prophylactic indomethacin. Multivariate analysis was used to compare the odds of a composite abnormal neurodevelopmental outcome (Bayley Mental Developmental Index or Cognitive Score <70, cerebral palsy, blindness, and/or deafness) associated with each treatment approach at age 18-36 months (n = 224). RESULTS: During period 1, 23% of the infants in follow-up failed indomethacin treatment, and all underwent surgical ligation. During period 2, 30% of infants failed indomethacin, and 66% underwent ligation after meeting prespecified criteria. Infants treated with the selective ligation strategy demonstrated fewer abnormal outcomes than those treated with the early ligation approach (OR, 0.07; P = .046). Infants who underwent ligation before 10 days of age had an increased incidence of abnormal neurodevelopmental outcome. The significant difference in outcomes between the 2 PDA treatment strategies could be accounted for in part by the earlier age of ligation during period 1. CONCLUSION: A selective ligation approach for PDAs that fail to close with indomethacin therapy is not associated with worse neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 18-36 months.