background systemic carnitine deficiency may present with apnea, hypotonia, and poor growth. premature infants often manifest these symptoms and are at risk of developing carnitine deficiency because of immaturity of the biosynthetic pathway, lack of sufficient predelivery transplacental transport, and lack of sufficient exogenous supplementation. objective this study was undertaken to examine ...

BACKGROUND Neonates and infants with hypomagnesemia present with seizures and psychomotor delay. OBJECTIVES The present study evaluated the changes in magnesium (Mg) levels and factors associated with these in the first three days of life. MATERIALS AND METHODS We monitored 50 clinically asymptomatic neonates; they were not given any magnesium supplements even if they had hypomagnesemia at ...

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BACKGROUND Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) occurs in one to three per 1000 live full-term births. Fifteen to twenty percent will die in the postnatal period, and an additional 25 % will develop severe and permanent neuropsychological sequalae. The control of growth and nutritional status in the fetus and neonate is a complex mechanism, in which also hormones produced by adipose tissue, su...

This study was aimed to evaluate the situation of congenital hypothyroidism (CH) in Guilan using the screening program and determine the correlation of CH with birth weight, gestational age and seasonality. During 2006 to 2010, in Guilan province, neonatal screening for CH by measurement of serum TSH level was performed in 3-5 days after birth. All neonates with TSH level ≥ 5mu/l were referred ...

OBJECTIVE Maternal hypovitaminosis D may impair fetal growth and cause adverse pregnancy outcomes including intrauterine growth restriction and neonatal low birth weight. The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between maternal vitamin D status and neonate's birth weight. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional, descriptive analytical study was carried out in the nursery ward of...

OBJECTIVES To determine prognostic factors for mortality in neonates with tetanus and to assess the associations between prognostic factors and neonatal tetanus (NT) mortality. METHODS Five databases were searched for studies on prognostic factors and NT mortality published up to April 2013 to identify studies relevant to this review. Prognostic factors of interest were birth weight, age at o...

considering the fact that early hypocalcemia is the most common type of neonatal hypocalcemia which manifests during the first few days of iife (72 hours) and that hypocalcemia in low birth weight neonates is very common, this descriptive study on hypocalcemia was conducted to determine the frequency of hypocalcemia in low birth weight neonates in the city of kashan in the first 9 months of the...