Morbilidad a los dos años de edad en niños con un peso al nacimiento menor de 1.500 g

Less than a fifth of the very low birth weight infants presented severe sequelae at 2 years of follow-up. Factors of poor neurological prognosis were subnormal head size at 2 years and the presence of white matter disease on ultrasonography. The findings on growth and development were worrying, since 18 % of the patients had not reached the 3rd percentile for weight at 2 years' corrected age.