医学
脑室出血
新生儿重症监护室
低出生体重
儿科
金标准(测试)
磁共振成像
回顾性队列研究
放射科
胎龄
外科
怀孕
遗传学
生物
作者
Alessandro Parodi,Giovanni Morana,Mariasavina Severino,Mariya Malova,A R Natalizia,Andrea Sannia,Andrea Rossi,Luca A. Ramenghi
标识
DOI:10.3109/14767058.2013.796162
摘要
To assess diagnostic accuracy of cranial ultrasonography (CUS) in detecting low-grade (i.e. grade I and grade II) germinal matrix hemorrhage-intraventricular hemorrhage (GMH-IVH) in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants.Among VLBW infants who were admitted to Gaslini Children's Hospital neonatal intensive care unit between January and November 2012, patients who underwent both serial CUS since birth and magnetic resonance susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) at term-equivalent age were included in this retrospective study. Diagnostic accuracy of CUS in detecting low-grade GMH-IVH was assessed in terms of sensitivity and specificity by comparing it to SWI, which was used as the gold-standard technique.Sixty VLBW infants were included in the study. Sensitivity of CUS in detecting low-grade GMH-IVH was low (60%), whilst specificity was 100%.In the present study, CUS sensitivity in detecting grade I-II GMH-IVH proved to be surprisingly low, in contrast with specificity. In other words, we suggest that low-grade GMH-IVH may be underdiagnosed in VLBW infants when assessed exclusively with CUS.
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