Aim The purpose of this systematic review was to provide an up‐to‐date global overview of
the separate prevalences of motor and cognitive delays and cerebral palsy (CP) in very …

The concerted interaction of genetic and environmental factors acts on the preterm human
immature lung with inflammation being the common denominator leading to the …

Importance Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a chronic lung disease of prematurity,
remains one of the major and most common complications of very preterm birth. Insight into …

Background Recent studies on clinical chorioamnionitis at term suggest that some patients
with this diagnosis have neither intraamniotic infection nor intraamniotic inflammation. A …

OBJECTIVES: To differentiate association from risk of CA in the development of CP. DATA
SOURCES: PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, and bibliographies of original studies …

Chorioamnionitis (CA) is a perinatal condition characterized by inflammation of the fetal
membranes. The incidence of CA increases with decreasing gestational age at birth. When …

Although chorioamnionitis (CA) is a well-known risk factor for white matter disease of
prematurity, the association with intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is controversial and has …

The role of chorioamnionitis (CA) in the development of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is
difficult to establish, because CA-exposed and CA-unexposed infants frequently present …

Background Epidural analgesia is associated with intrapartum hyperthermia, and
chorioamnionitis is associated with neonatal brain injury. However, it is not known if epidural …

Chorioamnionitis (CA) is considered a key risk factor for very preterm birth and for
developing early onset sepsis (EOS) in preterm infants, but recent data suggest that CA …