Evidence · Research paper
Analyses of pathological cranial ultrasound findings in neonates that fall outside recent indication guidelines: results of a population-based birth cohort: survey of neonates in Pommerania (SNiP-study).
- Intraventricular haemorrhage and white matter injury
- Medical
- Neurodevelopmental follow-up
- Neurology
This paper is from 2019, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
Population-based cohort study from the Survey of Neonates in Pomerania (2002–2008) reviewing 5107 cranial ultrasounds to assess abnormal findings in neonates of 30 weeks' gestation or more who had no guideline indication for scanning. Infants were grouped by whether they were admitted to neonatal care, and findings were classed as mild or significant, including cysts, partial corpus callosum agenesis and periventricular leukomalacia. Neurodevelopmental follow-up was examined, but findings were not shown to be associated with outcome or to offer benefit from earlier diagnosis. The authors conclude the data do not support extending cranial ultrasound indications or universal neonatal screening.
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