High-Risk Infant Follow Up
The High-Risk Infant Follow Up clinic at MassGeneral for Children at North Shore Medical Center provides comprehensive evaluation and follow-up services for children from birth to age two. Our specialists work with you and your infant’s pediatrician or family medicine physician to improve your baby’s growth, development and nutritional status, and to identify any medical, neurological, or developmental abnormalities.
Program Overview
Most infants are evaluated at three, seven and twelve months of corrected gestational age (if born prematurely, from the due date, not the birth date) and two years of chronological age.
Conditions treated include:
- Birth weight less than 1500 grams (3 lbs., 5 oz..)
- Gestational age less than or equal to 30 weeks
- Apgar score at 5 minutes of 3 or less
- History of neurological abnormality or intraventricular hemorrhage
- Oxygen and/or diuretic dependent chronic lung disease
- Infants with a positive drug screen/maternal substance abuse
- Severe Intrauterine Growth Retardation
- ECMO Grade III or greater
- Retinopathy of prematurity
- Neonatal meningitis
