Neurodevelopmental Outcome of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants Randomly Assigned to Restrictive or Liberal Hemoglobin Thresholds for Blood Transfusion

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Extremely low birth weight infants frequently receive red cell transfusions. We sought to determine whether a restrictive versus liberal hemoglobin transfusion threshold results in differences in death or adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes of extremely low birth weight infants. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Extremely low birth weight infants previously enrolled in the Preterm Infants in Need of Transfusion Trial, a …