Pascal Boileau, Mathilde Letouzey, Andrei S Morgan, Elsa Lorthe, Monique Kaminski, Anaëlle Coquelin, Elie Azria, Laurence Caeymaex, Florence Rouget, Caroline Diguisto, Olivier Claris, Barthélémy Tosello, Patrick Truffert, Pierre Bétrémieux, Valérie Benhammou, Laetitia Marchand-Martin, François Goffinet, Pierre-Yves Ancel, Laurence Foix-L'Hélias
AIM: To describe the circumstances, causes and timing of death in extremely preterm infants. METHODS: We included from the EPIPAGE-2 study infants born at 24-26 weeks in 2011 admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICU). Vital status and circumstances of death were used to define three groups of infants: alive at discharge, death with or without withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment (WWLST). The main cause of death was classified as respiratory disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, infection, central nervous system (CNS) injury, other or unknown...
October 2023: Acta Paediatrica