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A total of 4172 infants who weighed 401\u2013500 g (mean gestational age: 23.3 \u00b1 2.1 weeks) were born at 346 participating centers. Overall, 17% survived until discharge. A total of 2186 (52%) died in the delivery room (DR), and 1986 (48%) were admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Compared with infants who died in the DR, infants who survived the DR and were admitted to the NICU were more likely to be female (58% vs 49%), to be small for gestational age (56% vs 11%), to have received prenatal steroids (61% vs 12%), and to have been delivered by cesarean section (55% vs 5%). Thirty-six percent of NICU admissions survived to discharge. Mean gestational age of the 690 NICU survivors was 25.3 \u00b1 2.0 weeks. These survivors experienced significant morbidity in the NICU.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Conclusions. An appreciable number of these marginally viable fetal infants survive. They experienced a high rate of serious morbidities while in the NICU. There is very little information about long-term outcomes, as the medical and developmental status of few of these infants has been followed carefully. Parents should be made aware of the high incidence of serious problems, and concerted efforts should be made to follow the status of these infants.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1542\/peds.113.6.1559","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2004,8,13]],"date-time":"2004-08-13T20:53:04Z","timestamp":1092430384000},"page":"1559-1566","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":108,"title":["Fetal Infants: The Fate of 4172 Infants With Birth Weights of 401 to 500 Grams\u2014The Vermont Oxford Network Experience (1996\u20132000)"],"prefix":"10.1542","volume":"113","author":[{"given":"Jerold F.","family":"Lucey","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont"},{"name":"Vermont Oxford Network, Burlington, Vermont"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cherise A.","family":"Rowan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Patricia","family":"Shiono","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Vermont Oxford Network, Burlington, Vermont"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andrew R.","family":"Wilkinson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sarah","family":"Kilpatrick","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nathaniel R.","family":"Payne","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Children\u2019s Healthcare, Minneapolis, Minnesota"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jeffrey","family":"Horbar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont"},{"name":"Vermont Oxford Network, Burlington, Vermont"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Joseph","family":"Carpenter","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Vermont Oxford Network, Burlington, Vermont"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jeannette","family":"Rogowski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"RAND, Washington, DC"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Roger F.","family":"Soll","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont"},{"name":"Vermont Oxford Network, Burlington, Vermont"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"417","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2004,6,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021121006333473000_R1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Horbar J, Badger GJ, Carpenter JH, et al for the members of the Vermont Oxford Network. 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