New assessment of relationship between Apgar score and early neonatal mortality

Minerva Pediatrica

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 249-252

  Vahabi, S ^a   Haidari, M ^a   Akbari Torkamani, S ^a   Gorbani Vaghei, A ^a  

^a LORESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Apgar score; Infant mortality; Infant, newborn

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERM BIRTH; AGE; INFANT MORTALITY;

AGE FACTORS; APGAR SCORE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77955394666     PISSN: 00264946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Apgar V. A proposal for a new method of evaluation of the newborn infant. Presented at the 27th Annual Congress of Anesthetists, Joint Meeting of the International Anesthesia Research Society and International College of Anesthetists, Virginia Beach, Va., September 22-25, 1952.
2. Apgar V. A proposal for a new method of evaluation of the newborn infant. Curr Res Anesth Analg 1953;32:260-7.
3. Nelson KB, Ellenberg JH. Apgar scores as predictors of chronic neurologic disability. Pediatrics 1981;68:3644.
4. Drage JS, Kennedy C, Schwarz BK. The Apgar score as an index of neonatal mortality, a report from collaborative study of cerebral palsy. Obstet Gynecol 1964;24:222-30.
5. Moster D, Lie RT, Irgens LM, Bjerkedal T, Markestad T. The association of Apgar score with subsequent death and cerebral palsy: A population-based study in term infants. J Pediatr 2001;138:798-803.
6. Sun Y, Vestergaard M, Pedersen CB, Christensen J, Olsen J. Apgar scores and long-term risk of epilepsy. Epidemiology 2006;17:296-301.
7. Goodwin TM, Belai I, Hernandez P, Durand M, Paul RH. Asphyxiai complications in the term newborn with severe umbilical academia. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1992;167:1506-12.
8. Catlin EA, Carpenter MW, Brann BS 4th, Mayfield SR, Shaul PW, Goldstein M et al. The Apgar score revisited: influence of gestational age. J Pediatr 1986;109:865-8.
9. Gilstrap LC 3rd, Leveno KJ, Burris J, Williams ML, Little BB. Diagnosis of birth asphyxia on the basis of fetal pH, Apgar score, and newborn cerebral dysfunction. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1989;161:825-30.
10. Winkler CL, Hauth JC, Tucker JM, Owen J, Brumfield CG. Neonatal complications at term as related to the degree of umbilical artery academia. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1991;164:637-41.
11. Thorngren-Jerneck K, Herbst A. Low 5-minute Apgar score: a population-based register study of 1 million term births. Obstet Gynecol 2001;98:65-70.
12. Cisse CT, Ngoma SI, Martin SL, Tall-Diaw C, Diadhiou F. Epidemiologic surveillance of early neonatal mortality at the university hospital center in Dakar (Sénégal). Sante 1997;7:109-12.
13. Casey BM, McIntire DD, Leveno KJ. The continuing value of the Apgar score for the assessment of newborn infants. N Engl J Med 2001;344:467-71.
14. Mori R, Shiraishi J, Negishi H, Fujimura M. Predictive value of Apgar score in infants with very low birth weight. Acta Paediatr 2008,97:720-3.
15. Haddad B, Mercer BM, Livingston JC, Talati A, Sibai BM. Outcome after successful resuscitation of babies born with apgar scores of 0 at both 1 and 5 minutes. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2000;182:1210-4.
16. Nathoo KJ, Chimbira TH, Mtimavalye LA. Mortality and immediate morbidity in term babies with low Apgar scores (Zimbabwe). Ann Trop Paediatr 1990;10:239-44.