ReviewPediatric research2020
Preterm white matter injury: ultrasound diagnosis and classification.
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73 citing papers in PubMed, 125 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Diagnostic performance of serum neuron-specific enolase for cranial ultrasound-detected brain injury in preterm neonates.Translational pediatrics · 2026Article
- Meconium metabolomic profiling dysregulation and neonatal brain injury in selective fetal growth restriction.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Constructing a predictive model for the risk of periventricular leukomalacia in very low birth weight premature infants based on Lasso-Logistic regression analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Identification of risk factors of cystic periventricular leukomalacia in preterm infants.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Duration of surfactant administration and its impact on stabilisation of vital parameters in very preterm neonates <28 weeks of gestational age (SurfStab): 1 min versus 5 min-study protocol for a prospective randomised-controlled phase IV trial.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- A Specific Haplotype of theDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A head start: The relationship of placental factors to craniofacial and brain development.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2025Review
- The effect of hemoglobin level in early life on periventricular leukomalacia: a case control study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
White matter injury (WMI) is the most frequent form of preterm brain injury. Cranial ultrasound (CUS) remains the preferred modality for initial and sequential neuroimaging in preterm infants, and is reliable for the diagnosis of cystic periventricular leukomalacia. Although magnetic resonance imaging is superior to CUS in detecting the diffuse and more subtle forms of WMI that prevail in very premature infants surviving nowadays, recent improvement in the quality of neonatal CUS imaging has broadened the spectrum of preterm white matter abnormalities that can be detected with this technique. We propose a structured CUS assessment of WMI of prematurity that seeks to account for both cystic and non-cystic changes, as well as signs of white matter loss and impaired brain growth and maturation, at or near term equivalent age. This novel assessment system aims to improve disease description in both routine clinical practice and clinical research. Whether this systematic assessment will improve prediction of outcome in preterm infants with WMI still needs to be evaluated in prospective studies.
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