Functional outcome at school age of neonatal post-hemorrhagic ventricular dilatation.

Background: Specific knowledge about the functional outcome of preterm born children with post-hemorrhagic ventricular dilatation (PHVD) is lacking.

Objectives: To determine functional outcome at school age in children with post-hemorrhagic ventricular dilatation and to identify whether PHVD characteristics increased the risk for deficits.

Methods: Single-center case-control study.

[Ventriculomegaly at the gestational age of 20 weeks; research into its incidence and related abnormalities].

Objective: To describe the incidence and the prognostic value of foetal ventriculomegaly identified between 18-23 weeks of gestational age in the northeastern part of the Netherlands during the 2002-2010 period.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Method: From the database of the University Medical Centre Groningen in the Netherlands, we selected all cases of singleton pregnancies in which ventriculomegaly was diagnosed at 18-23 weeks of gestation.