Eleanor J Molloy, Mohamed El-Dib, Janet Soul, Sandra Juul, Alistair J Gunn, Manon Bender, Fernando Gonzalez, Cynthia Bearer, Yvonne Wu, Nicola J Robertson, Mike Cotton, Aoife Branagan, Tim Hurley, Sidhartha Tan, Abbot Laptook, Topun Austin, Khorshid Mohammad, Elizabeth Rogers, Karen Luyt, Pia Wintermark, Sonia Lomeli Bonifacio
The survival of preterm infants has steadily improved thanks to advances in perinatal and neonatal intensive clinical care. The focus is now on finding ways to improve morbidities, especially neurological outcomes. Although antenatal steroids and magnesium for preterm infants have become routine therapies, studies have mainly demonstrated short-term benefits for antenatal steroid therapy but limited evidence for impact on long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes. Further advances in neuroprotective and neurorestorative therapies, improved neuromonitoring modalities to optimize recruitment in trials, and improved biomarkers to assess the response to treatment are essential...
December 19, 2023: Pediatric Research