The later neurodevelopmental progress of 15 babies who had neonatal periventricular echodensities or flares in the absence of any intraventricular bleeding or subsequent cystic degeneration was studied. At follow up four infants had neurological abnormalities, including spastic diplegia (n = 2). These findings suggest that transient flares may represent mild periventricular leucomalacia with co...

AIMS To determine the prevalence of unilateral neonatal cerebral infarction in infants born at 32 weeks gestation and above; to describe the clinical course, imaging results, and outcome of neonatal cerebral infarction; and to investigate possible aetiology. METHODS Twelve cases of unilateral neonatal cerebral infarction were identified from neonatal unit records for the years 1987-93. Each c...

A retrospective cohort study of 1597 low-risk pregnancies assessed the effects of obstetrical intervention using logistic regression. Both maternal and neonatal morbidity were low (15.2 percent and 3.8 percent, respectively). Epidural analgesia, oxytocin, or both, were associated with worse maternal outcome, and neonatal outcome was worse when oxytocin was used. However, epidural analgesia seem...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association of cord arterial blood pH with neonatal outcome in cases of intrapartum fetal hypoxia. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive analytical study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Gynaecology Unit-II, Civil Hospital, Karachi, from September 2011 to November 2012. METHODOLOGY All singleton cephalic fetuses at term gestation were included in the study. Those with any anomal...

Prenatal serotonin and neonatal outcome: Brief report Tiffany Field a,b,∗, Miguel Diego a, Maria Hernandez-Reif c, Barbara Figueiredo d, Osvelia Deeds a, Angela Ascencio a, Saul Schanberg e, Cynthia Kuhn e a Touch Research Institute, University of Miami Medical School, United States b Fielding Graduate University, United States c University of Alabama, United States d University of Minho, Portu...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Decreasing mortality in sick and ventilated neonates is an endeavor of all neonatologists. To reduce the high mortality in this group of neonates, identification of risk factors is important. This study was undertaken to find out the indications of ventilation and complications in ventilated neonates and also study possible predictors of outcome. SUBJECTS Age <1-month; mec...

OBJECTIVE It is unclear whether children with cystic fibrosis (CF) who present with neonatal meconium ileus have a different long-term outcome from those presenting later in childhood with pulmonary complications or failure to thrive. We examined a cohort of patients with meconium ileus, and compared their long-term outcome with children who had CF without meconium ileus and neonates who had me...

Cardiotocography recordings of both high risk and low risk pregnant women were studied and the results were correlated with the labour outcome, perinatal mortality and various morbidity variables such as 5 min apgar score and intrapartum fetal distress. The results were statistically analysed and the diagnostic value of admission test in terms of sensitivity and specificity in predicting the la...