OBJECTIVE To determine the association between direct costs for the initial neonatal intensive care unit hospitalization and 4 potentially preventable morbidities in a retrospective cohort of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants (birth weight <1500 g). STUDY DESIGN The sample included 425 VLBW infants born alive between July 2005 and June 2009 at Rush University Medical Center. Morbidities in...

BACKGROUND Cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) increase mortality and morbidity risks for affected infants especially in less developed countries. This study aimed at assessing the effects of systematic pediatric care on neonatal mortality and hospitalizations of infants with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) in South America. METHODS The intervention group included live-born infants with isolated or...

Enterovirus infections are common in the neonatal period. Newborns are at a higher risk of severe disease including meningoencephalitis, sepsis syndrome, cardiovascular collapse, or hepatitis. The mechanism of heart failure in patients with enterovirus infection remains unknown. Early diagnosis may help clinicians predict complications in those infants initially presenting with severe disease. ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to review the risk factors and clinical, bacteriological, and epidemiological characteristics of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infections in our neonatal intensive care unit. METHODS A retrospective matched case-control study was performed by comparing 23 cases of S maltophilia with 45 controls to identify the potential risk factors. To identify the case pa...

Objective: To evaluate clinical features, laboratory test results, and maternal neonatal outcomes of pregnant patients with the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Methods: We reviewed data from women a laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2, who were admitted to our university hospital in Türkiye. Demographic characteristics, collected. Results: A total 46 included this study. The mean age was 28 (min. 2...

Infants hospitalized for non-organic failure to thrive in the first six months of life are in a life-threatening situation and are already at risk for poor bonding with mother. In light of this, the meaning and use of foster care and how this separation affects the developing mother-child relationship are the issues addressed through examination of 16 cases in which 8 of the infants were placed...

BACKGROUND Healthcare-associated bloodstream infections (HCA-BSI) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). OBJECTIVES We aimed to determine the causative organisms and risk factors of HCA-BSIs in NICUs. METHODS This study was performed between January 2011 and December 2014 in the neonatal intensive care unit of Dicle university, Turkey. The stu...

Despite most infants born at 34+0 through 36+7 weeks’ gestation are thought to be at low risk during the birth hospitalization and have a neonatal course with no significant complications, they are physiologically and metabolically immature with an higher rates of morbidity and mortality than term infants [1]. Most common medical condition associated with latepreterm births are respiratory dist...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether patients with undiagnosed hereditary spherocytosis hospitalized for transfusions might have avoided hospitalization via earlier diagnosis. STUDY DESIGN Charts of all (N = 30) patients with hereditary spherocytosis seen in pediatric hematology at West Virginia University-Charleston were reviewed. Family and transfusion history and presence of neonatal jaundice we...

methods this prospective observational study was conducted in a tertiary level neonatal intensive care unit, princess esra hospital, deccan college of medical sciences, hyderabad, telangana, india. consecutive intramural and extramural neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit with the rh-negative mother’s blood group and hyperbilirubinemia were enrolled. neonates born to rh+ve mothers ...