introduction: the findings of cephalometry studies are widely applied in medical and engineering fields. cephalometry measurements are affected by genetics‚ age‚ gender‚ and social‚ economic and geographic factors.this study assesses cephalometry of the neurocranium in male newborns in kermanshah,iran by an anthropometry method to confirm or reject the theory of brachycephalization (i.e., a spr...

sarah was  a 22 year old woman who passing her first pregnancy.  the  pregnancy was unplanned and random and she did not know her last menstrual history. he was visited at home by a midwife community health. no important problem was found in his medical history but he was  smoking 20 cigarettes daily . it was noteworthy that saeed ,his wife, had transient neonatal diabetes history. although sar...

background preeclampsia is a major cause of maternal, fetal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the laboratory disorders in neonates born to preeclamptic mothers. patients and methods this descriptive-retrospective study was conducted in the neonatal units of shahid beheshti and shabihkhani hospitals on neonates born to preeclamptic mothers du...

objective: early discharge of newborns is essential because of social, economic an medical reasons in our area, but it increases readmission rates especially for hyperbilirubinemia. hence, predicting the high risk neonates for subsequent hyperbilirubinemia is required. this study was designed to investigate which level of total serum bilirubin (tsb) at the first day could be used to predict hyp...

conclusions most of the catheter-related deaths were due to severe sepsis and hemothorax, and a significant relationship was noted between infection and both the mortality rate and catheterization duration. a significant relationship was also evident between birth weight and infection rates. background developments in the use of central venous catheters have improved the treatment of critically...

acute appendicitis is a common occurrence in childhood, but this diagnosis is considered rarely in differential diagnosis of acute abdomen in the neonatal period because its occurrence is very rare in neonates. we report a 20-day- old afghan female baby that was admitted to neonatal intensive care unit, because of irritability and abdominal distension. complete ultrasound of abdomen and pelvis ...

We read with interest the recent description of yet another case of bilirubin-related positive interference in an enzymatic colorimetric assay for acetaminophen (1 ). As a remedy, these authors suggest measuring bilirubin before every acetaminophen assay and removing it by ultrafiltration when the bilirubin concentration is higher than the reported cutoffs for interference. An alternative and p...

glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) deficiency is the most important disease of the hexose monophosphate pathway. deficiency of this enzym can lead to hemolysis of red blood cells. our aim was to study the prevalence of g6pd deficiency in relation to neonatal jaundice. we studied 456 clinically icteric neonates laboratory investigations included determination of direct and indirect serum b...