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Prophylactic indomethacin and the risk of serious pulmonary hemorrhages in preterm infants less than 28 weeks' gestation.

OBJECTIVE: To determine if prophylactic indomethacin (PINDO) decreases serious pulmonary hemorrhages in infants <28 weeks.

STUDY DESIGN: Intention-to-treat analysis of 615 consecutively admitted infants during four alternating protocol-driven epochs of PINDO or expectant patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) management.

RESULTS: 41/615 (6.7%) developed serious pulmonary hemorrhage at 2 (1, 3) days (median (IQR)). In unadjusted and adjusted multivariable models, infants born in a PINDO epoch had significantly lower incidences of pulmonary hemorrhage and pulmonary hemorrhage or death before 7 days. There were less moderate/large PDA during PINDO epochs. The associations between PINDO and pulmonary hemorrhage and pulmonary hemorrhage/death were no longer significant when presence of a PDA was included in the analyses. There was no apparent association between PINDO epochs and the incidence of serious intraventricular hemorrhages.

CONCLUSION: Even though PINDO no longer appears to affect the incidence of sIVH it still is associated with a lower incidence of pulmonary hemorrhage.

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