Disseminated tuberculosis was diagnosed at the autopsy of a 65-day-old premature infant who died in a 52-bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Both parents and one sibling had previously had positive tuberculin skin tests (TSTs); none had active pulmonary tuberculosis, but a second sibling had hilar adenopathy. Congenital transmission was confirmed by isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...

Volume 95 No. 5 May 2012 a newborn Male, delivered by Caesarean section after induction at 41 weeks of gestation for failure to progress, was admitted to the Women and Infants’ Hospital (WIH) Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with a large vascular mass on his left knee (Figure 1). Routine prenatal US had been normal and the pregnancy had been uneventful. Physical examination at delivery was o...

M edical errors are a common occurrence in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Although this high risk, fragile patient population is prone to a wide array of errors, medication errors are particularly common. Medication errors were the most common error type submitted to the Vermont Oxford Network’s NICQ.org voluntary reporting system. Kaushal and colleagues identified errors in 5.5% of N...

IMPORTANCE Full-term neonates born between 37 and 41 weeks' gestational age have been considered a homogeneous, low-risk group. However, recent evidence from studies based on mode of delivery has pointed toward increased morbidity associated with early-term cesarean section births (37-38 weeks) compared with term neonates (39-41 weeks). OBJECTIVE To compare the short-term morbidity of early-t...

background: mothers are highly vulnerable to depression within the first year after childbirth. approximately 10-20% of mothers suffer from depression during this period, and half of these women with symptoms of prominent postpartum depression (ppd) remain undiagnosed. the edinburgh postnatal depression scale (epds) is the most widely applied screening instrument for ppd evaluation. in this stu...

how to cite this article: sadeghzadeh m, khoshnevisasl p, parvaneh m, mousavinasab n. early and late outcome of premature newborns with history of nicu admission at 6 years old in zanjan, iran. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):67-73. objective premature birth is an important factor for mortality and morbidity of neonates. this study was designed to evaluate the outcome of preterm neonate...

background:extrauterine growth restriction remains a common and serious problem in newborns especially who are small, immature, and critically ill. very low birth weight infants (vlbw) had 97% and 40% growth failure at 36 weeks and 18-22 months post-conceptual age respectively. the postnatal development of premature infants is critically dependent on an adequate nutritional intake that mimics a...

Full-term and preterm infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) face a high risk of infections, due to the immaturity of their innate and adoptive immune systems, inadequate protection through maternal immunity and the need for repeated invasive procedures (1). In recent years, our knowledge of viral infections in neonates has increased, due to multiplex polymerase chain reactio...