10 December 2020 : Review article
The Prognosis of Preterm Infants Born at the Threshold of Viability: Fog Over the Gray Zone – Population-Based Studies of Extremely Preterm Infants
Eszter Fanczal1AE, Botond Berecz1A, Annamária Szijártó1A, Ákos Gasparics1AD*, Péter Varga1ABCEFDOI: 10.12659/MSM.926947
Med Sci Monit 2020; 26:e926947
Supplementary Table 5 NEC rates of survived extremely preterm infants by gestational age.
| Study | Survived/ All infants | Surgically treated/Stage ≥2 by Bell’s criteria | NEC rates (%) by gestational age (week) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22. | 23. | 24. | 25. | 26. | 27. | 28. | |||
| EPICURE []18 | Survived | Surgically treated | 33 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 6 | – | – |
| EXPRESS []10 | Survived | Stage ≥2 | 0 | 1.9 | 9.4 | 6.0 | 5.1 | – | – |
| Agarwal []8 | Survived | Stage ≥2 SIP excluded | 0 | 9 | 8.6 | 9.6 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 5.8 |
| EPIPAGE2 []5 | Survived | Stage ≥2 | – | 100 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 4.5 | – | – |
| Anderson []6 | Survived | Stage ≥2 | 13.8 | 18.5 | 13.8 | 11.3 | 10.9 | 8.9 | 6.7 |
| NEPS2 []17 | Survived | Stage ≥2 | 0 | 16.7 | 5.7 | 8.5 | 1.3 | – | – |