Hyperbilirubinemia is very common and usually benign in the term newborn infant and the late preterm infant at 35 to 36 completed weeks’ gestation. Critical hyperbilirubinemia is uncommon but has the potential for causing longterm neurological impairment. Early discharge of the healthy newborn infant, particularly those in whom breastfeeding may not be fully established, may be associated with ...

The placenta has been considered an mice. Both maternal red cells and lymanatomical barrier which prevents maphocytes labeled, respectively, with ratemal rejection of the fetal allograft. This diochromium and tritiated thymidine view is no longer tenable since, in one have been detected in newborn mice. particular inbred strain of mouse, materThis phenomenon appears independent nal blood cells ...

D’Angio CT, Ryan RM. Animal models of bronchopulmonary dysplasia. The preterm and term rabbit models. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 307: L959–L969, 2014. First published October 17, 2014; doi:10.1152/ajplung.00228.2014.—Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is an important lung developmental pathophysiology that affects many premature infants each year. Newborn animal models employing both prem...

OBJECTIVES To review studies on newborn hearing screening in Hong Kong and the current evidence on the cost-effectiveness of universal newborn hearing screening programmes and to determine their value and the best model for such a programme in Hong Kong. DATA SOURCE Medline literature search (1985-2004), local reports and abstracts available to the author. STUDY SELECTION Literature and dat...

Cerebral infarction of newborn infants is a rare condition. It remains the least predictable etiology of neonatal seizures, and the appreciation of its occurrence among physicians needs to be re-addressed. The most common presenting feature is seizure. We report 2 full term newborn infants who developed middle cerebral infarction. These infants presented primarily with ischemic limbs for severa...

hypertension in newborn infants, particularly those requiring intensive care, is becoming increasingly recognized, with prevalence of 0.2-3%. recent studies have established normative tables for blood pressure (bp) in both term and pre-term infants based on the gestational age, postnatal age, gender, weight and height, identifying the neonates at increased risk for early-onset cardiovascular di...

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...

There is a need to explore novel methods of assessing bone health in sick preterm infants. This study of the speed of sound in the long bones of newborn term and preterm infants shows that, in this population, this technique is not site specific and has a high degree of interobserver and intraobserver precision. The speed of sound in newborn infants is primarily dependent on gestation rather th...

Hyperbilirubinemia is very common and usually benign in the term newborn infant and the late preterm infant at 35 to 36 completed weeks’ gestation. Critical hyperbilirubinemia is uncommon but has the potential for causing longterm neurological impairment. Early discharge of the healthy newborn infant, particularly those in whom breastfeeding may not be fully established, may be associated with ...