Objective The association of chorioamnionitis and noncystic white matter injury, a common
brain injury in premature newborns, remains controversial. Our objectives were to determine …

Background The independent risk for neurodevelopmental impairments attributed to
chorioamnionitis in premature infants remains controversial. Delayed brain maturation or …

Importance Understanding the role of chorioamnionitis, a major factor leading to preterm
birth, in the pathogenesis of neonatal brain injury and adverse neurodevelopmental …

(PVL) in the premature newborn. Three meta-analyses have linked chorioamnionitis to cystic
PVL and cerebral palsy. Yet, the relationship between chorioamnionitis and brain injury was …

Objective To determine the impact of clinical and/or histological chorioamnionitis on
neurodevelopmental outcomes in premature infants. Methods A review of the literature …

This article reviews what is known about the association of chorioamnionitis and brain injury.
Most studies relating chorioamnionitis to neurologic outcome in the child have concentrated …

The relation between clinical or histologic chorioamnionitis and early neonatal adverse
neurologic outcome was investigated (n= 483). Histologic, but not clinical, evidence of …

Objective To assess the association of neurodevelopmental outcome with the placental
diagnosis of chorioamnionitis in very low-birth-weight infants. Methods One hundred seventy …

Background: Perinatal infection may potentiate brain injury among children born preterm.
The objective of this study was to examine whether maternal and/or neonatal infection are …

Aim. To evaluate the association between histological chorioamnionitis and brain damage
(intraventricular hemorrhage and cystic periventricular leukomalacia) in the preterm …