background: chest radiography is one of the most usual diagnostic tools for respiratory distress. objective: the purpose of this study is to assess the specificity, sensitivity and clinical value of chest radiography of neonates with respiratory distress.patients and methods: a descriptive- analytical study was conducted on 102 neonates that were in neonatal intensive care unit of imam reza and...

background: in neonatal intensive care units (nicu) different sound intensities and frequencies are produced from different sources, which may exert undesirable physiological effects on the infants. the aim of this study was to determine the noise level and its sources in the nicu and neonatal ward of al-zahra hospital of rasht, iran. methods: in this descriptive cross-sectional study, the inte...

background: prognosis of small intestine artesia, the most common agents causing intestinal obstruction in neonates, has improved in last decades. some variable such as weight change, type of feeding, post operation oral feeding starting time, and adequacy of energy and protein intake can change patients clinical outcomes. we performed a retrospective study to evaluate all neonates with small i...

background : the development of microbial resistance to the existing anti-microbial agents has become a real challenge and a serious problem facing patients suffering from skin infections. seeds of nigella sativa have been used for a long time in folk medicine for the treatment of skin infections. production of new potent agents is urgently needed, especially for hospitals and health care cente...

Urinary ascites from bladder perforation in neonate is a rare event reported to occur more commonly following umbilical artery catheterization. Other causes include bladder perforations in neonates with bladder abnormalities, following bladder instrumentation or idiopathic bladder perforations. The present manuscript describes a full-term female neonate with spontaneous bladder perforation who ...

In April 2011, an outbreak of Serratia marcescens infection/ colonisations occurred in the neonatal intensive care unit of Pescara General Hospital. Rapid microbiological investigations lead to identification of five cases of likely cross-transmission from a neonate hospitalised for S. marcescens sepsis: four infections and one neonate colonised post-mortem. Two low birth weight neonates died. ...

Respiratory distress in the neonate is a common problem. An inverted hemidiaphragm may be a significant factor contributing to the respiratory distress.' Inversion of both hemidiaphragms has been reported in all age group^.^ Three papers in the literature report a total of 15 adults with right hemidiaphragm inversion diagnosed sonographic all^.^-^ This case report is of a neonate with left hemi...

Congenital laryngeal cyst is a rare cause of respiratory distress in the neonate and infant.1 This soft tissue mass of water density is located inside an aryepiglottic fold.2 Its diagnosis classically rests on endoscopy and radiography, yet it may also be made through ultrasonography. We report one case of laryngeal cyst diagnosed by ultrasonography in a neonate and illustrate the role of cervi...

Optimal care of the neonate with hyperammonemia requires expertise in the evaluation, medical management, and decision to initiate dialytic therapy, and therefore compels expeditious collaboration between neonatal intensive care physicians, medical geneticists, and pediatric nephrologists. Neonatal and dialysis nursing expertise also is paramount for the successful provision of dialysis therapy...

Pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade is a rare and life-threatening complication of peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) in a neonate. We report a 33-week preterm neonate who had sudden clinical deterioration at day seven of total parenteral nutrition regime via PICC. Recognition of pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade in neonates with a PICC requires a high index of susp...