Background

The comparison of neurodevelopmental results in very low birth weight newborns according to birth year cohorts allows evaluating the impact of the different interventions carried out to prevent and treat the most frequent conditions in this group of patients during the perinatal period and neonatal, as well as the different conditions and diseases that occur in these stages of development.

Objective

to evaluate neurodevelopment at two years of corrected age in a cohort of very low birth weight newborns.

Methods

prospective observational study, which included preterm newborns with birth weight <1500 g discharged alive from the Provincial Gynecobstetric Teaching Hospital of Matanzas, in the period 2016-2018, and who had completed their follow-up in a neurodevelopment consultation at two years old corrected age (N=52). The data contained in the medical records were stored in a database (SPSS v. 22.0), from which the statistical processing was performed. Any value p<0.05 was considered significant.

Results

at two years old of corrected age, 90% of the patients were normal; major and minor alterations were found, respectively, in 2 and 8% of cases. Clinical neonatal seizures were significantly associated with the occurrence of neurodevelopmental abnormalities.

Conclusion

The incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders at two years old of corrected age in very low birth weight newborns in Matanzas was lower in the period studied, in relation to previous years, although this finding was not statistically significant.

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