Postnatal Growth Assessment of the Very-Low-Birth-Weight Preterm Infant

被引：0

作者：

Mcnelis, Kera ^{[1
]}

Thoene, Melissa ^{[2
]}

Huff, Katie A. ^{[3
]}

Fu, Ting Ting ^{[4
]}

Alja'nini, Zaineh ^{[5
]}

Viswanathan, Sreekanth ^{[6
]}

机构：

[1] Emory Univ, Childrens Healthcare Atlanta, Dept Pediat, Div Neonatol, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA

[2] Univ Nebraska Med Ctr, Dept Pediat, Div Neonatol, Omaha, NE 68198 USA

[3] Indiana Univ Sch Med, Riley Childrens Hlth, Dept Pediat, Div Neonatal Perinatal Med, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA

[4] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati Childrens Hosp Med Ctr, Perinatal Inst, Coll Med,Div Neonatol, Cincinnati, OH 45229 USA

[5] Univ Missouri, Mercy Kids Childrens Hosp, Sch Med, Dept Pediat,Div Neonatol, Springfield, MO 65212 USA

[6] Univ Cent Florida, Nemours Childrens Hosp, Coll Med, Orlando, FL 32827 USA

来源：

CHILDREN-BASEL | 2025年 / 12卷 / 02期

关键词：

critical illness; infant; newborn; very low birth weight; intensive care units; neonatal; premature; premature birth; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; PREMATURE-INFANTS; INTENSIVE-CARE; LINEAR GROWTH; BODY-COMPOSITION; FOR-LENGTH; VELOCITY; NEURODEVELOPMENT; INTERGROWTH-21ST; NUTRITION;

D O I：

10.3390/children12020197

中图分类号：

R72 [儿科学];

学科分类号：

100202 ;

摘要：

Preterm birth represents a nutritional emergency and a sudden dissociation of the maternal-placental-fetal unit that regulates metabolic and endocrine physiology. Growth demonstrates health and is a signal of physiological well-being. Growth is expensive for a critically ill infant and possible only after other homeostasis energy demands are met. Despite an expert-stated goal that preterm infants should grow at a similar rate to their gestational age-matched fetal counterparts, this is not the reality for many preterm infants. Other investigators have proposed new metrics for growth quality in the neonatal intensive care unit. This review discusses growth assessment and standards in very-low-birth-weight infants and attempts to address the knowledge gap of which growth metrics are the most important to monitor.

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