ArticleArchives of disease in childhood2005
Epidemiology of apparent life threatening events.
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- Home Cardiorespiratory Monitoring in Infants at Risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Apparent Life-Threatening Event (ALTE) or Brief Resolved Unexplained Event (BRUE).Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Brief resolved unexplained events: a new diagnosis, with implications for evaluation and management.European journal of pediatrics · 2022Review
- The Postnatal Risk, Resuscitation Success Rate and Outcomes of Pediatric Sudden Death in Taiwan.Acta Cardiologica Sinica · 2021Article
- Brief resolved unexplained events vs. child maltreatment: a review of clinical overlap and evaluation.Pediatric radiology · 2021Review
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- Apparent Life-Threatening Events (ALTE): Italian guidelines.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2017Review
- Apparent life-threatening event in infancy.Korean journal of pediatrics · 2016Review
- Not living with both parents is associated with more health- and developmental problems in infants aged 7 to 11 months: a cross sectional study.BMC public health · 2015Article
- Infantile Apparent Life-Threatening Events, an Educational Review.Emergency (Tehran, Iran) · 2015Review
- Apparent life-threatening events in neonatal period: clinical manifestations and diagnostic challenges in a pediatric referral center.Iranian journal of pediatrics · 2013Article
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- Surveillance study of apparent life-threatening events (ALTE) in the Netherlands.European journal of pediatrics · 2010Article
- Child neurology: a case illustrating the role of imaging in evaluation of sudden infant death.Neurology · 2009Article
- Cry analysis in infants resuscitated for apnea of infancy.International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology · 2007Article
- Living at high altitude and risk of hospitalisation for atopic asthma in children: results from a large prospective birth-cohort study.Archives of disease in childhood · 2007Article
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Abstract
aimsTo investigate the epidemiology and risk factors of apparent life threatening events (ALTE).
methodsA prospective study enrolled all live-born infants in the Tyrol (1993-2001). Information on pregnancy, sociodemographic characteristics, child care practices, and infant's behaviour in the first four to six weeks of life was collected with a standardised questionnaire, and was available for 44,184 infants. ALTE was identified from hospital admission records.
resultsDuring the study period 164 ALTE cases were identified, corresponding to an incidence of 2.46/1000 live births. In 73 of these infants no cause for the event and no comorbidity could be found (idiopathic ALTE). On average ALTE manifested ten weeks earlier than SIDS. Of various SIDS risk factors in the survey area, the prone sleeping position, smoking during pregnancy, low gestational age, profuse night sweating, and family history of infant death showed a moderate relation to the risk of overall ALTE, but only smoking maintained significance in the multivariate risk model. None of these variables was associated with idiopathic ALTE. In contrast to SIDS the frequency of ALTE did not change during the study period. None of the ALTE infants experienced SIDS later in life. Behavioural abnormalities such as feeding difficulties, episodes of pallor, cyanotic episodes, and repeated apnoea episodes were strongly associated with an increased risk of overall and idiopathic ALTE.
conclusionsAlthough there are some similarities in the clinical presentation and epidemiology of SIDS and ALTE, differences clearly predominate. Accordingly, ALTE and SIDS should not be considered different manifestations of the same disease process.
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