Preterm babies represent a heterogeneous clinical group, whose health state is conditioned by their maturity and the short and long term complications that they sometimes experience as a result of their premature birth. The health and wellbeing of this category of population is the focus of much international effort. Definition of quality of life creates a large debate in medical literature. Si...

Eleven premature babies developed necrotizing enterocolitis in an epidemic of gastroenteritis and salmonella infection. This occurred in one of two premature baby wards over a period of 10 weeks. All affected babies had severe gastroenteritis and six had salmonella infection. No cases of necrotizing enterocolitis occurred in the unaffected ward during the same period. All other possible factors...

The nutrient needs and appropriate growth rates of the hospitalised premature infant have been reviewed elsewhere [1]. In the post-discharge period, however, such data are not available. Although the rate of foetal growth serves as the standard for the infant less than 36 weeks gestation and breastfeeding meets the needs of the healthy term infant, neither goal has been shown to apply to the pr...

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare receptive and expressive language skills in premature full-term babies under the newborn hearing screening follow-up program.

There is good evidence that under certain conditions the newborn baby metabolizes tyrosine in a different way from the older child or adult. Levine and his colleagues (Levine, Gordon, and Marples, 1941a; Levine, Marples, and Gordon, 1941b; Levine, 1947) first described the excretion of large amounts of tyrosine, p-hydroxyphenylpyruvic acid, and p-hydroxyphenyllactic acid in the urine of prematu...

Girling, D. J., and Hallidie-Smith, K. A. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 177. Persistent ductus arteriosus in ill and premature babies. Thirty-eight ill and premature babies with a diagnosis of persistent ductus arteriosus (PDA) are described. All were patients in the Neonatal Unit of Hammersmith Hospital. 16 of them, who were born during a year in which all babies in the Unit we...

It has previously been shown that reducing sugars are frequently excreted in the urine by mature and premature newborn babies (Haworth and McCredie, 1956; Haworth and MacDonald, 1957). Other workers, using paper chromatographic methods, have also found small amounts of sugars in the urines of children and usually higher concentrations of lactose and galactose in urines from young babies (Woolf,...

Objective To explore the etiology, incidence and methods to prevent and treat severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), which is rapidly becoming a threat to the vision of babies in areas of the world where increasing numbers of premature babies are surviving. Data sources The data used in this review were mainly from Medline and PubMed published in English. The search term was “retinopathy of p...

Volume density of respiratory organs was studied in vitro in newborn babies at different age of gestation (abort, immature, premature and mature) using stereometric method. The total of 23 cases was subject to this study. The respiratory organs (trachea, lungs) were taken from autopsies of newborn babies exited from different causes. For this purpose the tissues were fixed in formalin (10%) sol...