ABSTRACT: The emotional distress resulting from the experience of giving birth to a preterm infant (gestational age , 37 weeks) and the subsequent neonatal unit hospitalisation may be a traumatic experience for parents. In the present systematic literature review, studies on parental posttraumatic symptomatology following birth of a premature infant were reviewed. A total of 5 studies were iden...

Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is an important cause of brain injury in premature neonates. Current study tries to define associated risk factors of IVH in preterm neonates in Aliasghar Children Hospital during 2008 to 2011. In this study, the risk factors have been evaluated in premature neonates with IVH, who had at least one brain sonography since their admission in NICU. A total of 63 pr...

Recent studies in animals have suggested that antenatally administered steroids may accelerate fetal lung maturation and prevent the development of respiratory distress following premature delivery [7, 13, 16, 18, 21, 23]. Further studies in human pregnancies complicated by premature rupture of the amniotic membranes [l, 3, 4,19, 24], in trauterine growth retardation [6], or maternal heroin add...

Premature delivery, a significant cause of child mortality and morbidity worldwide, is particularly prevalent in the developing world. As HIV is highly prevalent in much of sub-Saharan Africa, it is important to determine risk factors for prematurity among HIV-positive pregnancies. The aims of this study were to identify risk factors of preterm (<37 weeks) and very preterm (<34 weeks) birth amo...

THE AIM To determine the incidence of perinatal mortality, as well as the frequency of premature deliveries. METHODS We analyzed the data of birth protocol at the Clinics for Gynecology and Obstetrition at the University Clinical Centre in Tuzla in period 1992-2006. RESULTS Perinatal mortality gradually declines in the period of 1992-2000. The decline owns mostly to early neonatal mortality...

Aim: to compare delivery to expectant management for cases of preterm premature rupture of membranes at 34weeks. Methods: This was a prospective study carried out at Menoufia University Hospital, Egypt on 84 pregnant women with preterm premature rupture of membranes at 34 weeks, the studied women were divided to 2 equal groups: group A managed by immediate delivery and group B managed expectant...