Neurodevelopmental Outcome and Neuroimaging of Very Low Birth Weight Infants from an Italian NICU Adopting the Family-Centered Care Model.

There is an increasing trend in neurodevelopmental disorders (behavioral, social competence, learning, and executive function disorders) that manifest later in childhood among preterm children, and therefore require long-term follow-up, at least until 6–7 years of age [ 3 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 ].

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