Neurobiologic Correlates of Attention and Memory Deficits Following Critical Illness in Early Life.

Objectives: Survivors of critical illness in early life are at risk of long-term-memory and attention impairments. However, their neurobiologic substrates remain largely unknown. Design: A prospective follow-up study. Setting: Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Patients: Thirty-eight school-age (8-12 yr) survivors of neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and/or congenital diaphragmatic hernia with an intelligence quotient greater than or equal to 80 and a below average score (z score

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