Health status of premature infants with low and extremely low birth weight

Abstract

The paper provides the results of the examination and follow-up of 134 newborn children with very low body weight and 34 newborn children with extremely low body weight and reveals the peri-natal features of pregnant women’ medical histories that provoke pregnancy loss. As reported, there are regional features in the health status of the premature infants with very low and extremely low body weight during the initial rehabilitation period. The most frequent diseases are neonatal pneumonia and central nervous system pathology. The structure of the morbidity in infants allows identifying major risk factors for the profound prematurity in Primorsky Krai and confirms the need to carry out long-term dynamic monitoring of the profound premature infants accompanied with the post-natal diagnostics, recovery and rehabilitation in an effort to prevent unfavourable outcomes and improve quality life of the newborn infants.