Mother-infant interaction assessment at discharge and at 6 months in a French cohort of infants born very preterm: The OLIMPE study.

Objectives: The principal aim was to investigate the feasibility of assessing mother-infant interactions at discharge and at 6 months infant corrected age in singletons born before 32 weeks of gestation. The secondary aims were to describe these interactions and their disorders, explore the association between maternal emotional state and the interactions, and assess the relationship between disordered interactions and infant social withdrawal behaviour.

Methods: OLIMPE is an ancillary study of the population-based study EPIPAGE 2, which recruited preterm neonates in France in 2011.

Umbilical cord blood procalcitonin as a risk factor for mortality in very premature infants.

Fetal inflammatory response syndrome is implicated as a cause of fetal or neonatal injury. We analyzed the relationship between the procalcitonin umbilical cord blood level and neonatal outcome. A total of 237 preterms born in a level III perinatal medicine unit of a French university hospital were enrolled in a prospective observational study.

Hyperbilirubinemia and neurodevelopmental outcome of very low birthweight infants: results from the LIFT cohort.

Background: Bilirubin-related neurotoxicity is an important clinical issue in very low birthweight (VLBW) infants, and the existing literature is inconsistent.

Objective: To analyze the relationship between maximal serum unconjugated bilirubin levels (SBL) and neurodevelopmental outcome at 2-year corrected age in VLBW infants.

Methods: Phototherapy was initiated in all infants born before 33 weeks of gestation, according to Maisels' recommendations.

Umbilical cord blood procalcitonin level in early neonatal infections: a 4-year university hospital cohort study.

This article describes a study of procalcitonin (PCT) measured in cord blood as a discriminating marker of early-onset neonatal infection. This was a monocenter retrospective study with prospective collection of data including all babies born during the study period. Those presenting infection risk factors had PCT measurement.