Neurological status of survivors of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: A preliminary report from the collaborative study

Abstract

The neurological development of infants who survived the respiratory distresssyndrome has been reviewed in a prospective study. The subjects for this study consisted of 34,792 live-born infants including 59 survivors of the respiratory distress syndrome. The subjects were divided on the basis of birthweight into 3 categories, and in each category comparisons were made between those who survived the respiratory distress syndrome and those who did not have it. Neurological abnormalities were more frequent during the first year of life in the survivors of the respiratory distress syndrome than in the control subjects in each of the birthweight categories.