Publications by authors named "Benedicte Lecomte"
Importance: Compared with term-born peers, children born very preterm generally perform poorly in executive functions, particularly in working memory and inhibition. By taking advantage of neuroplasticity, computerized cognitive training of working memory in those children could improve visuospatial processing by boosting visual inhibition via working memory.
Objective: To evaluate the long-term effect of cognitive working memory training on visuospatial processing in children aged 5½ to 6 years born very preterm who have working memory impairment.
Background: Regionalisation programmes aim to ensure that very preterm infants are born in level III units (inborn) through antenatal referral or transfer. Despite widespread knowledge about better survival without disability for inborn babies, 10%-30% of women deliver outside these units (outborn).
Objective: To investigate risk factors associated with outborn deliveries and to estimate the proportion that were probably or possibly avoidable.
Objectives: To investigate the relation between neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) volume and survival, and neuromotor and sensory disabilities at 2 years in very preterm infants.
Study Design: The EPIPAGE-2 (Etude Epidémiologique sur les Petits Âges Gestationnels-2) national prospective population-based cohort study was used to include 2447 babies born alive in 66 level III hospitals between 24 and 30 completed weeks of gestation in 2011. The outcome was survival without disabilities (levels 2-5 of the Gross Motor Function Classification System for cerebral palsy with or without unilateral or bilateral blindness or deafness).
Article Synopsis
- Current estimates of health outcomes for preterm infants are essential for improving perinatal care and guiding clinical practices and parental decisions.
- The EPIPAGE-2 study analyzed the survival and health issues of infants born between 22 and 34 weeks of gestation in France in 2011, comparing results with a similar study from 1997.
- Survival rates significantly improved with gestational age, with only 0.7% survival for infants under 24 weeks compared to 98.9% for those born at 32-34 weeks, while neonatal morbidity also decreased alongside gestational age.
Objective: To present longitudinal observations of hyperechoic lung lesions (HLL) in a non-selected population from the time of prenatal diagnosis by ultrasound (US) until postnatal surgery.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of all fetuses diagnosed with an HLL between 1990 and 2005 in our Fetal Medicine Unit.
Results: We observed 21 cases of HLL.