Table 2.
Complications of preterm infants with PV–IVH who deteriorated or not.
| Variables | Deterioration of PV–IVH n = 42 |
No deterioration of PV–IVH n = 472 |
X2 | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asphyxia (n, %) | 25 (59.5) | 169 (35.8) | 9.234 | 0.00 |
| Pneumonia (n, %) | 35 (83.3) | 374 (79.2) | 0.398 | 0.53 |
| Respiratory distress syndrome (n, %) | 25 (59.5) | 218 (46.2) | 2.752 | 0.10 |
| Apnea (n, %) | 23 (54.8) | 295 (62.5) | 0.979 | 0.32 |
| Patent ductus arteriosus (n, %) | 10 (23.8) | 128 (27.1) | 0.215 | 0.64 |
| Scleredema (n, %) | 7 (16.7) | 42 (8.9) | N | 0.10 |
| Anemia (n, %) | 22 (52.4) | 183 (38.8) | 2.979 | 0.08 |
| Sepsis (n, %) | 6 (14.3) | 41 (8.7) | N | 0.26 |
PV–IVH periventricular–intraventricular hemorrhage.