Christoph Binder1, Vito Giordano1, Margarita Thanhaeuser1, Alexandra Kreissl1, Mercedes Huber-Dangl1, Nicholas Longford2, Nadja Haiden1, Angelika Berger1, Andreas Repa3, Katrin Klebermass-Schrehof1. 1. Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Neonatology, Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine and Neuropediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. 2. Section of Neonatal Medicine, Department of Medicine; Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Campus, London, United Kingdom. 3. Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Neonatology, Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine and Neuropediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: andreas.repa@meduniwien.ac.at.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether parenteral nutrition for infants of extremely low birth weight using a mixed lipid emulsion that contains fish oil influences electrophysiological brain maturation. STUDY DESIGN: The study is a prespecified secondary outcome analysis of a randomized controlled trial of 230 infants of extremely low birth weight receiving amixed (soybean oil, medium-chain triglycerides, olive oil, and fish oil; intervention) or a soybean oil-based lipid emulsion (control). The study was conducted at a single-level IV neonatal care unit (Medical University Vienna; June 2012 to October 2015). Electrophysiological brain maturation (background activity, sleep-wake cycling, and brain maturational scores) was assessed biweekly by amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (birth to discharge). RESULTS: A total of 317 amplitude-integrated electroencephalography measurements (intervention: n = 165; control: n = 152) from 121 (intervention: n = 63; control: n = 58) of 230 infants of the core study were available for analysis. Demographic characteristics were not significantly different. By 28 weeks of postmenstrual age, infants receiving the intervention displayed significantly greater percentages of continuous background activity. Total maturational scores and individual scores for continuity, cycling, and bandwidth were significantly greater. Maximum maturational scores were reached 2 weeks earlier in the intervention group (36.4 weeks, 35.4-37.5) compared with the control group (38.4 weeks, 37.1-42.4) (median, IQR; P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: Using a mixed parenteral lipid emulsion that contains fish oil, we found that electrophysiological brain maturation was accelerated in infants who were preterm. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01585935.
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OBJECTIVE: To assess whether parenteral nutrition for infants of extremely low birth weight using a mixed lipid emulsion that contains fish oil influences electrophysiological brain maturation. STUDY DESIGN: The study is a prespecified secondary outcome analysis of a randomized controlled trial of 230 infants of extremely low birth weight receiving a mixed (soybean oil, medium-chain triglycerides, olive oil, and fish oil; intervention) or a soybean oil-based lipid emulsion (control). The study was conducted at a single-level IV neonatal care unit (Medical University Vienna; June 2012 to October 2015). Electrophysiological brain maturation (background activity, sleep-wake cycling, and brain maturational scores) was assessed biweekly by amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (birth to discharge). RESULTS: A total of 317 amplitude-integrated electroencephalography measurements (intervention: n = 165; control: n = 152) from 121 (intervention: n = 63; control: n = 58) of 230 infants of the core study were available for analysis. Demographic characteristics were not significantly different. By 28 weeks of postmenstrual age, infants receiving the intervention displayed significantly greater percentages of continuous background activity. Total maturational scores and individual scores for continuity, cycling, and bandwidth were significantly greater. Maximum maturational scores were reached 2 weeks earlier in the intervention group (36.4 weeks, 35.4-37.5) compared with the control group (38.4 weeks, 37.1-42.4) (median, IQR; P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: Using a mixed parenteral lipid emulsion that contains fish oil, we found that electrophysiological brain maturation was accelerated in infants who were preterm. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01585935.
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