 Infant, Very Low Birth Weight
"Infant, Very Low Birth Weight" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An infant whose weight at birth is less than 1500 grams (3.3 lbs), regardless of gestational age.
| Descriptor ID |
D019102
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.060.703.520.460.600
|
| Concept/Terms |
Infant, Very Low Birth Weight- Infant, Very Low Birth Weight
- Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infant
- Infant, Very-Low-Birth-Weight
- Infants, Very-Low-Birth-Weight
- Very Low Birth Weight Infant
- Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Infant, Very Low Birth Weight".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Infant, Very Low Birth Weight".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Infant, Very Low Birth Weight" by people in this website by year, and whether "Infant, Very Low Birth Weight" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Infant, Very Low Birth Weight" by people in Profiles.
-
Fletcher JM, Landry SH, Bohan TP, Davidson KC, Brookshire BL, Lachar D, Kramer LA, Francis DJ. Effects of intraventricular hemorrhage and hydrocephalus on the long-term neurobehavioral development of preterm very-low-birthweight infants. Dev Med Child Neurol. 1997 Sep; 39(9):596-606.
-
Contractor CP, Leslie GI, Bowen JR, Arnold JD. The Neonatal Neurobiologic Risk Score: does it predict outcome in very premature infants? Indian Pediatr. 1996 Feb; 33(2):95-101.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|