Clinicozdiagnostic characteristics of intraventricular hemorrhages in the neonatal period
A retrospective analysis of case histories of 90 newborns was performed which showed that 6,7 percent of cases had a slight intraventricular hemorrhage, with 83,3 percent moderately and 10 percent severely impaired. It was found that the severity and progression of IVH disease are inversely proportional to gestational age at birth and the degree of neonate maturity. Severe bleeding into the brain's ventricles is more often seen in preterm neonates with very low birth weight and in extremely premature babies in terms of the periods of gestation. Given the clinically silent course of grade1 IVH it is necessary to perform on a broader scale the neurosonographic examination of the fetal brain in the early neonatal period in newborns regardless of gestational age.