[Follow-up pre-term newborns with birth weight of less than 1500 grams now aged between 1-7 years (author's transl)].

43 pre-term newborns with birth weight of less than 1,500 grams who had been admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Department of Pediatrics of the University Clinic, Bonn, between 1971 and 1977, were reexamined on age between 1-7 years. A severe neurological handicap (hemiplegia with mental retardation) was present in only one child. There was no child with convulsions. Signs of minor cerebral dysfunction were present in five children. Developmental retardation of mild degree was observed in eight children. 28 children were entirely normal. Our results are in accordance with the encouraging reports of other recent authors concerning the improving long-term prognosis of very-low-birth-weight pre-term infants.