Intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm newborns: risk factors and results from a University Hospital in Istanbul, 8 years after.

Background: In this prospective study, the authors aimed to show intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) incidence of premature newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, and its risk factors, and they tried to compare these results with those they reported 8 years ago.

Methods: A total of 103 premature newborns, hospitalized between August 2003 and January 2005 with a gestational age equal or less than 33 weeks, were included in this study. IVH rates and changes in the incidences of risk factors were compared with those that had been reported between January 1995 and January 1997.