EPIDEMIOLOGY Globally, 3.7 million children died within the neonatal period in 2004 with 25-45% of deaths occurring within the first day after in 2004.2 Over 50% of the world's infant mortality occurs in the developing and tropical countries and is related to the prevalent high neonatal mortality rate.1 A similar trend was observed in maternal mortality in the sub-Saharan region with mortality ...

Neonatologists in 100 special care baby units in the United Kingdom and Ireland collaborated in a four year surveillance study of neonatal necrotising enterocolitis. The average overall annual reporting rate of necrotising enterocolitis for infants in England and Wales was 0.3/1000 live births, but ranged from 9.5/1000 live births in infants weighing less than 1000 g at birth to 0.2/1000 live b...

Down syndrome (DS) is the most frequent chromosome abnormality among live births. Its prevalence increases with maternal age, and can be diagnosed by antenatal screening. We examined prevalence variations of DS in Denizli, Turkey, through a retrospective study. Sixteen years of survey data were retrieved from the two main state hospital registries from records between 1994 and 2010. We ide...

In 1950, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that, for the first time, the US maternal mortality rate had dipped below 1 per 1000 live births and declared that “Childbearing has been made quite safe.”1 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called the decline from 800-900 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 1900 to 10-20 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2000...

Edward syndrome is rare in live births in comparison to most common Down and Patau syndromes. The estimated incidences are one in 6000 live births and interestingly 70 to 80% those affected are females. The occurrence of double aneuploidy involving XXY + 18 is very rare in live born however, most of cases are available with spontaneous abortions. Here, we report a 07 day a male infant with typi...

The On-Line Registration of Certificates of Live Births was developed in conjunction with the Ministry of Health of Peru and the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status. It is a free system that registers newborns in the delivery room itself which generates a real time certificate of live birth. This simplifies the procedures required to obtain the birth certificate and the Nationa...

relationship between the two chromosomal aberrations. To our knowledge, the present case is the first report of Turner's syndrome with a familial balanced translocation not involving the X chromosome. Turner's syndrome occurs in about 1 in 6800 live births. Cases with balanced translocations occur in about 1 in 500 live births and most cases originate from familial translocation carriers (Bochk...

Historically, birth registration in Northeast Brazil has presented serious quality problems, with major regional variations and gaps in knowledge. The current study proposes to evaluate the quality of birth records and identify patterns of relationships between variables that reflect maternal and infant factors in the birth certificates and allow summarizing the data on live births in the 188 m...

Leukemia-inhibitory factor (LIF) and Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) are important factors in fertility. In the present study, it was investigated whether Bu Shen Huo Xue Decoction (BSHXD) prevents controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) treatment-induced changes in endometrial LIF and Ang-2 expression and whether it has an effect on the number of implantation sites and live births in rats. Uteri were...

OBJECTIVE To describe the country's progress in eliminating neonatal tetanus based on the information obtained from epidemiologic surveillance. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective descriptive study of the epidemiological surveillance of neonatal tetanus in Colombia in the period ranging from 1989 to 2005. Available information was consulted regarding confirmations of this event of interest f...