General movement assessment is correlated with neonatal behavior neurological assessment/cerebral magnetic resonance imaging in preterm infants |
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Authors: | Jinjun Zhou Shuangshuang Li Li Gu Xiaohua Zhang Zhen Tang |
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Institution: | Division of Neonatology, Affiliated Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China. |
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Abstract: | To explore the relationship between general movements (GMs) and neonatal behavior neurological assessment (NBNA)/cerebral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in preterm infants.Forty preterm infants were examined with GMs assessment before gestational age of 40 weeks; NBNA was performed at the age of 40 weeks; cerebral MRI was performed at the age of 42 weeks.Our experiment showed that preterm infants with poor GMs scores are more likely to have low NBNA scores (P = .001); preterm infants with abnormal cerebral MRI are more likely to have low NBNA scores (P = .002); preterm infants with poor GMs scores are more likely to have abnormal cerebral MRI (P = .012).GM assessment is correlated with NBNA and MRI results in preterm infants for neurological development. |
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Keywords: | cerebral magnetic resonance imaging general movement assessment neonatal behavior neurological assessment preterm infants |
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