Roberton, N. R. C. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 206. Apnoea after THAM administration in the newborn. The use of THAM in the treatment of neonatal acidaemia is surveyed over a 3-year period. Of 100 babies to whom the drug was given while they were breathing spontaneously, 17% had respiratory depression during, or within two minutes of injection. If only potentially viable babie...

OBJECTIVE To review the outcome of liver transplantation in babies aged less than 1 year. DESIGN Prospective evaluation of survival, clinical complications, and nutritional and developmental status before and one year after liver transplantation. SETTING The Children's Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. SUBJECTS All 25 babies who received liver transplantation from January...

INTRODUCTION This cross-sectional study investigated the rate of congenital and neonatal malaria infections in patients attending our hospital. METHODOLOGY Thick and thin blood films of 288 neonates admitted in the Special Care Baby Unit of Jos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, were examined microscopically for malaria parasites. Babies' and mothers' demographic and clinical data were an...

The study included 1,596 newborns and their parents living in Sibenik County, Croatia. All newborns are born between 37 and 42 weeks of gestation, with no congenital anomalies and from a single pregnancy. Fathers and mothers of male babies are older than those of girl babies (p < 0.01). Mean values for weight, height, BMI in parents and the woman's parity are equal (p = 0.05). Pregnancy with ma...

BACKGROUND Many women diagnosed with varying psychiatric disorders take antipsychotic medications during pregnancy. The safety of antipsychotic medications in pregnancy is largely unknown. METHODS We established the National Register of Antipsychotic Medications in Pregnancy in 2005. Women who are pregnant and taking an antipsychotic medication are interviewed every 6 weeks during pregnancy a...

Tyrosinase has been measured in homogenates of foreskins from newborn babies. The tyrosine hydroxylation reaction is dependent upon 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine as a cosubstrate, and the Km for tyrosine is 0.15 mM, similar to the value observed for other mammalian tyrosinases. The mean enzyme activity for black babies (n = 169) is about two and one-fourth times that for white babies (n = 82). For...

Xanthou, M. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 741. Leucocyte blood picture in ill newborn babies. Serial blood leucocyte counts were made on 35 ill preterm and term babies during the first 28 days of life. Ill babies with no clinical or bacteriological evidence of infection showed no changes in the blood leucocytes during the neonatal period when compared with normal babies. The cha...

Glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) is an enzyme in the hexose monophosphate shunt required for the production of reducing equivalents needed to mop up free radicals. thereby keeping hemoglobin in its free state. Deficiency of the enzyme can cause severe neonatal jaundice. The aim of this study was to compare G6PD levels in pre-term and term babies, and evaluate the extent to which G6PD deficiency determ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate signs of haemolysis in babies of Rh-D negative mothers who underwent prophylaxis with anti-D immunoglobulin during pregnancy. DESIGN The following were evaluated in all babies of Rh-D negative mothers born within a three month period in our department: haemoglobin level, packed cell volume, mean corpuscular volume, reticulocytes, bilirubin level, and direct Coombs' test ...

BackgroundPreeclampsia is an ischemic condition which increases the maternal oxidative stress. Babies may born to the preeclamptic mothers with appropriate birth weight and gestational age. Studies about the oxidative stress in those babies are scrace. Materials and methods45 preeclamptic and 40 normal mothers were selected for the study. Cases and controls were age matched. Ischemia modified a...