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Table 2 PPIP classification of mortality

From: Determinants of survival in very low birth weight neonates in a public sector hospital in Johannesburg

Cause of death

Cases

%

Extreme mulitorgan immaturity

56

40

HMD

22

15.7

Asphyxia

17

12.1

NEC

14

10

Nosocomial sepsis

14

10

Septicaemia

3

2.1

Congenital infection

2

1.4

IVH

3

2.1

Congenital abnormality

4

2.8

Pulmonary Haemorrhage

2

1.4

Unspecified

3

2.1