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 6 Rates of antenatal corticosteroid use among extremely preterm infants by gestational age.
| Study | Partial/Complete antenatal steroid therapy | Rates of antenatal corticosteroid use (%) by gestational age (week) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22. | 23. | 24. | 25. | 26. | ||
| Kugelman []7 | Partial | – | 25 | 51 | 61 | 66 |
| Agarwal []8 | Complete | – | 38 | 67 | 72 | 80 |
| EPICURE []18 | Complete | 14 | 58 | 84 | 88 | 86 |
| EXPRESS []10 | Partial | 40 | 85 | 95 | 89 | 93 |
| Ishii []11 | Partial | 21.3 | 32.2 | 41.3 | 43.7 | – |
| EPIPAGE2 []5 | Partial | 1.8 | 12.3 | 56.7 | 75.5 | 80.6 |
| NEPS1 []16 | Partial | 35.3 | 85.7 | 93.5 | 90 | 90.5 |
| NEPS2 []17 | Complete | 0 | 59.5 | 61.3 | 61.4 | 72.6 |