purpose: to determine the incidence of retinopathy of prematurity (rop) and to evaluate the possible neonatal risk factors for rop. methods: this cross-sectional study included all premature infants born at hospitals affiliated to tehran medical university, tehran-iran who were referred within 4-6 weeks after delivery to farabi eye hospital from 2004 to 2005. inclusion criteria were birth weigh...

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ary dysplasia.2 The incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia among ventilated infants varies, depending on gestational age, from 4-2% to as high as 40%,'1 4 but increases up to 70% among infants in whom it is necessary to prolong mechanical ventilation beyond two weeks.5 Such infants have an increased mortality and morbidity even after discharge from neonatal intensive care. Readmission is commo...

We describe a possible association between pulmonary hemosiderosis (PH) and a history of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Both patients were born at 28-week gestation and presented with PH at ages 22 months and 6 years, respectively. Both initially presented with cough and tachypnea, and bronchoalveolar lavage showed evidence of hemosiderin-laden macrophages. Initial hemoglobin levels were < 4...