Background: Feeding intolerance is a common problem among premature infants. There is limited information on the safety and effects of oral probiotic supplements, especially products containing Lactobacillus reuteri, and the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in low birth weight preterm infants. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of Lactobacillus reuteri on the gastrointestinal ...

Objectives: Evaluation of the premature ruptured membranes incidence in a neonatology service, identification of microbial agents involved in producing infections with intrapartum onset and analysis of clinical and evolutive parameters involved in these cases. Material and method: Anamnestic, clinical and paraclinical data research, on all newborns resulted from premature ruptured membranes lab...

background and aim: although nuchal cord is a common occurrence at birth, there is little attention to its importance or management at birth, and teaching includes premature clamping and cutting of the cord as the common option.  although grade 1 evidence is lacking, the optimal management of the nuchal cord,  the somersault manoeuvre  is not taught or included in any current guidelines. what e...

INTRODUCTION Retinopathy of prematurity is a disease of the eye which affects the blood vessels of the retina and represents the most important cause of blindness and low vision in children worldwide. There are many risk factors given by birth and parameters of general health status that may influence this disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the significance of the factors given b...

The definition of a premature infant includes any infant born less than 37 completed weeks of gestation (Beck et al., 2009). This can be further divided into extremely, early and late preterm birth with those infants being born before 26 weeks of gestation being regarded as extremely preterm, between 26 and 34 weeks of gestation regarded as early preterm and those born between 34 and 37 weeks r...

Long term respiratory sequelae of premature birth are common. No safe and preventative strategy has been identified.

Copyright © 2007 Massachusetts Medical Society. In 1967, northway et al. first described a new chronic respiratory disease, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, that developed in premature infants exposed to mechanical ventilation and oxygen supplementation.1 Two decades later, the same authors found that clinically significant respiratory symptoms and functional abnormalities persisted into adolescence...