Managing Post-Haemorrhagic Hydrocephalus
PHH, as I will call it, is an extremely important determinant of outcomes in a small subgroup of preterm infants. Infants with severe IVH who don't develop PHH have outcomes that are little affected. As our group reviewed, even grade 4 IVH, if unilateral,…
PHH, as I will call it, is an extremely important determinant of outcomes in a small subgroup of preterm infants. Infants with severe IVH who don't develop PHH have outcomes that are little affected. As our group reviewed, even grade 4 IVH, if unilateral, and affecting 1 or 2 of the Bassan zones, has little impact on motor or cognitive outcomes unless complicated by PHH. Andrew Whitelaw died recently (a touching eulogy is on the site of the Newborn Brain Society), I knew him personally, having worked as his resident during a summer in Jersey (Channel Isles, UK), when he covered for my consultant during their vacation.
