Perinatal events and future developmental outcome--assessment of a newborn's individual prognosis. 2. Prediction of outcome on the basis of perinatological data--results of multivariate discriminant analysis.

The aim of the prospective study described in this paper was to elaborate a prognostic screening method which allows to give an individual prognostic estimate for every newborn, with an accuracy acceptable for clinical purposes. This second part informs about the results of multivariate discriminant analysis, using the data from case histories as well as from the clinical and laboratory findings in the neonates (including "criteria of hypoxia"). According to the kind and number of abnormalities found on the occasion of out-patient consultations during the course of the first two years of life, and according to the developmental status reached at the age of two and six years, the children were classified under two alternative groups.

Perinatal events and further developmental outcome--assessment of a newborn's individual prognosis. 1. Neonatal period and results of an eight years' follow-up.

The aim of the prospective study described in this paper was to develop a prognostic screening method which permits to give an individual prognostic estimate for every newborn, with an accuracy acceptable for clinical purposes. In the following, the condensed data of the case histories as well as of the clinical and laboratory findings in 47 of initially 60 preterm and term newborns with and without cardiorespiratory distress were analyzed under two different aspects. In the first part, the general statistical relationships are presented in the followed up children, who were classified under various groups according to the clinical course during the first two years of life and to the developmental stage reached at the age of two and six years.

Evaluation of indicators of erythropoiesis stimulated by recombinant human erythropoietin in renal anemia.

Recombinant human erythropoietin (rh-EPO) was administered to 11 anemic children with end-stage renal disease who were undergoing hemodialysis. Hematocrit (Hct), absolute reticulocyte count (retics), creatine concentration of red cells and erythrocyte density test (EDT) were chosen as indicators of rh-EPO effect on erythropoiesis. In the present report the first 9 weeks shall be presented in which all patients received an identical dosage of rh-EPO per kg body weight.

The erythrocyte density test (EDT) and erythrocyte creatine concentration (ECE) as laboratory indexes of perinatal hypoxia.

To study the influence of gestational age and asphyxia on the behaviour of EDT and ECE a group of cuban control and asphyxiated newborns was investigated. A total number of 203 newborns at the age of 0-3 days of life, all with adequate weight for gestational age, were classified into 4 groups according to their gestational age, the 1 min and 5 min Apgar score and the presence of meconium stained amniotic fluid and/or respiratory distress syndrome immediately after birth. In the group of asphyxiated newborns higher values for both parameters were found when they were compared with the respective control groups (p less than 0.