Prognosis of intracranial hemnorrhage in neonates.

Eleven of 21 infants with intracranial hemorrhage documented by computerized axial tomography survived and have had serial developmental assessments. Six of nine infants with intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) are developing normally, as is one of two infants with isolated subtentorial hemorrhage. According to our system for grading the severity of IVH, severe IVH correlated best with mortality and less well with developmental delay in survivors. Contrary to past impressions, IVH, even if severe, does not uniformly lead to a poor developmental outcome in surviving infants.