Invasive fungal infections often caused by Candida species are infections which have high morbidity and mortality rates in newborn infants. 5% of the cases have also concomitant endocarditis and this causes mortality rates over 60%. Thus it has vital importance to diagnose and treat these patients with endocarditis in early stages. Most preferred treatment option is a surgical incision in addit...

Neonatal mortality is very high in farm animals (approximately 10%) and disease resistance is greatly influenced by an adequate passive immunisation just after birth. In piglets, foals, calves and lambs, the intestinal absorption of immunoglobulins from their mother's colostrum occurs mainly by a non-specific endocytosis of macromolecules, but the details of the absorption process, and the mech...

Prevention of preterm birth and subsequent newborn immaturity is a primary goal of obstetrical care worldwide. Accumulated evidence shows that 1) as many as 25-50% of preterm births are caused by common genital tract infections and subsequent maternal/fetal inflammatory responses; 2) microbial and maternal host factors (phospholipases, proteases, etc.) play roles in preterm labor and preterm pr...

Blindness due to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is an increasing problem worldwide as improved levels of neonatal care are provided in countries with developing neonatal intensive care units. The occurrence of ROP blindness varies dramatically with the socioeconomic development of a country. In regions with high levels of neonatal care and adequate resources, ROP blindness is largely restrict...

The postnatal development of ventilatory reflexes originating from bronchopulmonary receptors was assessed in preterm vs. full-term lambs. Ventilation and arterial pressure were repeatedly measured in 10 preterm (gestational age, 132 days) and 7 full-term lambs without sedation from day 1 to day 42. The Hering-Breuer inhibitory reflex (slowly adapting stretch receptors) was assessed by the incr...

background: although several studies have investigated the association between maternal exposure to air pollution and preterm birth, the results are inconsistent. the aim of this study was to further investigate the relation between maternal exposure to ambient air pollution during pregnancy and the risk of preterm birth and low birth weight (lbw) in an iranian pregnant population. materials an...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Severe sepsis represents the systemic inflammatory response resulting from an infection, associated with one of the following: cardiovascular organ dysfunction, acute respiratory distress syndrome or two or more organ dysfunctions. Although the mortality rate from sepsis in children has steadily decreased in the last decades, the mortality rate in newborns remains high...

Yu, V. Y. H., Liew, S. W., and Roberton, N. R. C. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 449. Pneumothorax in the newborn: changing pattern. The clinical course of pneumothorax and its allied conditions was studied in 34 newborn infants who presented over a 2a-year period. We found an overall incidence of 3/1000 live births. 11 term infants without obvious pulmonary pathology presented e...

Yu, V. Y. H., Liew, S. W., and Roberton, N. R. C. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 449. Pneumothorax in the newborn: changing pattern. The clinical course of pneumothorax and its allied conditions was studied in 34 newborn infants who presented over a 2a-year period. We found an overall incidence of 3/1000 live births. 11 term infants without obvious pulmonary pathology presented e...