Table 3.
Injury severity and acuity among 125 infants with mild HIE who received a brain MRI at or before 8 days of age.
| All N = 125 |
Therapeutic hypothermia N = 104 |
No therapeutic hypothermia N = 21 |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injury score (median; IQR) | 5 (2–9) | 5 (2–9) | 6 (2–10) | 0.97 |
| Injury severity | 0.59 | |||
| No injury | 50 (40%) | 44 (42%) | 6 (29%) | |
| Mild | 55 (44%) | 43 (42%) | 12 (57%) | |
| Moderate | 14 (11%) | 12 (12%) | 2 (10%) | |
| Severe | 5 (4%) | 4 (4%) | 1 (5%) | |
| Injury acuity | ||||
| No injury | 50 (40%) | 44 (42%) | 6 (29%) | 0.24 |
| Acute | 40 (32%) | 34 (33%) | 21 (29%) | 0.71 |
| Subacute | 46 (37%) | 36 (35%) | 10 (48%) | 0.26 |
| Chronic | 1 (1%) | 1 (1%) | 0 (0%) | 0.65 |
| Multiple acuities | 18 (14%) | 15 (14%) | 3 (14%) | 0.76 |