Address for correspondence: Mr P M Davison, Bangour General Hospital, Broxburn, West Lothian Acute neonatal gangrene is an uncommon but devastating event. It may follow the adjustments in circulation that occur after birth, which may lead to an embolus arising from a thrombus within the ductus arteriosus or from an extension of an umbilical artery thrombosis. ' Arterial blood sampling2 and comp...

We present the neonatal complications of two premature newborn infants whose placentas demonstrated placental thrombosis in the fetal circulation. Both mothers presented with a 3-day history of decreased fetal movements before delivery. The first infant presented with thrombocytopenia and disseminated intravascular coagulation. The second infant had extended bilateral extended hemorrhagic venou...

Umbilical and supraumbilical catheter insertion is a common procedure performed in the NICU. It is a safe and usually easy procedure devoid of serious mishaps, morbidity and mortality. Complications such as hemorrhage, infection, hernia, evisceration, omphalitis, portal vein thrombosis and portal hypertension may occur after umbilical catheter insertion. Other uncommon and rare complications re...

In adults, EHPVO mainly occurs following thrombosis, while in children it may be related to congenital malformations and/or neonatal umbilical venous catheterization. leads the cavernous transformation of portal vein absence recanalization. Portal cholangiopathy (also referred as biliopathy) is common patients with long-standing chronic PVT. It due compression large bile ducts by collaterals (p...

Thrombotic disease is rare in neonates. The main risk factors at this age are perinatal asphyxia, maternal diabetes, sepsis, polycythemia, dehydration, a low cardiac output, and in primis the catheterization of central lines. Another important risk factor is inherited thrombophilia. Arterial thrombosis is even more rare than venous thrombosis and less related to most of the risk factors listed ...

Renal vein thrombosis (RVT) is one of the more common forms of neonatal thrombosis accounting for 15-20% of systemic thromboembolism[1,2]. A median age at presentation of 2-3 days have been reported [1,3], with unilateral and bilateral involvement of renal vein in 89-72% and 28-11% of cases, respectively[4,5]. The clinical presentation of RVT consists of increased kidney size, macroor microhema...