• Pediatrics · Aug 2013

    Neonatal infection and 5-year neurodevelopmental outcome of very preterm infants.

    • Ayoub Mitha, Laurence Foix-L'Hélias, Catherine Arnaud, Stéphane Marret, Rachel Vieux, Yannick Aujard, Gérard Thiriez, Béatrice Larroque, Gilles Cambonie, Antoine Burguet, Pascal Boileau, Jean Christophe Rozé, Monique Kaminski, Patrick Truffert, Pierre-Yves Ancel, and EPIPAGE Study Group.
    • Neonatal Unit Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, Lille, France. ayoub.mitha@yahoo.fr
    • Pediatrics. 2013 Aug 1; 132 (2): e372-80.

    ObjectiveTo determine whether neonatal infections are associated with a higher risk of adverse neurodevelopment at 5 years of age in a population-based cohort of very preterm children.MethodsWe included all live births between 22 and 32 weeks of gestation, from 9 regions in France, in 1997 (EPIPAGE study). Of the 2665 live births, 2277 were eligible for a follow-up evaluation at 5 years of age: 1769 had a medical examination and 1495 underwent cognitive assessment. Cerebral palsy and cognitive impairment were studied as a function of early-onset sepsis (EOS) and late-onset sepsis (LOS), after adjustment for potential confounding factors, in multivariate logistic regression models.ResultsA total of 139 (5%) of the 2665 live births included in the study presented with EOS alone (without associated LOS), 752 (28%) had LOS alone (without associated EOS), and 64 (2%) displayed both EOS and LOS. At 5 years of age, the frequency of cerebral palsy was 9% (157 of 1769) and that of cognitive impairment was 12% (177 of 1495). The frequency of cerebral palsy was higher in infants with isolated EOS (odds ratio [OR]: 1.70 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.84-3.45]) or isolated LOS (OR: 1.71 [95% CI: 1.14-2.56]) than in uninfected infants, and this risk was even higher in cases of combined EOS and LOS (OR: 2.33 [95% CI: 1.02-5.33]). There was no association between neonatal infection and cognitive impairment.ConclusionsNeonatal infections in these very preterm infants were associated with a higher risk of cerebral palsy at the age of 5 years, particularly in infants presenting with both EOS and LOS.

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