Monitoring the Postnatal Growth of Preterm Infants: A Paradigm Change

Villar, José; Giuliani, Francesca; C. Barros, Fernando; Roggero, Paola; Alejandra Coronado Zarco, Irma; Albertina Santiago Rego, Maria; Ochieng, Roseline; Lorella Giannì, Maria; Rao, Suman; Lambert, Ann; Ryumina, I.I.; Britto, Carl; Chawla, Deepak; Cheikh Ismail, Leila; Rehan Ali, Syed; E. Hirst, Jane; S. Teji, Jagjit; Abawi, Karim; Asibey, Jacqueline; Agyeman-Duah, Josephine; McCormick, Kenny; Bertino, Enrico; T. Papageorghiou, Aris; Figueras Aloy, J.; A Bhutta, Zulfiqar; Kennedy, Stephen

doi:10.1542/peds.2017-2467

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Monitoring the Postnatal Growth of Preterm Infants: A Paradigm Change

Published in PEDIATRICS • Jan 4, 2018

Authors:

José Villar

Francesca Giuliani

Fernando C. Barros

Abstract

There is no consensus regarding how the growth of preterm infants should be monitored or what constitutes their ideal pattern of growth, especially after term-corrected age. The concept that the growth of preterm infants should match that of healthy fetuses is not substantiated by data and, in pract...

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Medicine

Gestational age

Pediatrics

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