Maintaining optimal circulatory status is a key component of preterm neonatal care. Low-cardiac output (CO) in the preterm neonate leads to inadequate perfusion of vital organs and has been linked to a variety of adverse outcomes with heightened acute morbidity and mortality and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. Having technology available to monitor CO allows us to detect low-output states ...

Background Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS), which is characterized by a typical facial appearance, growth retardation, mental retardation, seizures, and congenital cardiac defects, has an estimated incidence of 1 per 50,000 births. Case We report a case of a low birth weight neonate with WHS and seizures, as well as persistent pulmonary hypertension in the early neonatal period. Apgar scores wer...

Care of the high-risk neonate usually refers to the low-birth-weight infant or the sick term newborn. Whereas hyperbilirubinemia is certainly a matter of concern in these infants, the decisions that must be made regarding jaundice in the high-risk neonate are, in general, less complex than those that must be made for the healthy full-term infant. For the term and near-term infant, shorter hospi...

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This Protocol for Evaluating the Fetal and Neonatal Heart details the indications, views, and measurements to be obtained for both (1) the basic screening examination of the fetal heart (a necessary component of all complete fetal anatomy evaluations) and the specialty study called (2) echocardiography as applied to either the fetus or neonate, using 2D and Doppler ultrasound. While the purpose...

BACKGROUND Ectopia Cordis is defined as complete or partial displacement of the heart outside the thoracic cavity. It is a rare congenital defect with failure of fusion of the sternum with extra thoracic location of the heart. The estimated prevalence of this case is 5.5 to 7.9 per million live births. CASE PRESENTATION We had a case of a 16-hour-old male neonate weighing 2.9kg with externall...

Within the spectrum of childhood diseases that present with recurrent and persistent infections, the 'combined immunity deficiency syndrome' (Soothill, 1967) or 'Swiss' type of a-y-globulinaemia (Hitzig, Barandun, and Cottier, 1968) has recently been well defined. This familial disease is considered to result from a recessive genetic inheritance (Hitzig and Willi, 1961). Treatment has been inva...

Background: Neonatal period is a susceptible time in which the newborn has to adapt to a new environment and is vulnerable to many problems. This study aimed to assess the disease outcome and associated factors among neonates.Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted from March 15, 2018, to March 30, 2018, on neonates (n=341) admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care U...

Background Acute pain and distress during medical procedures are commonplace in newborn admitted to Intensive Care Unit and can have detrimental effects, if uncontrolled. Accumulating evidence suggests that neonate, as older children, could benefice of non pharmacological interventions (NPIs) to relive mild to moderate pain, anxiety and discomfort from minor invasive procedures. [1] These thera...