purpose: to study the effects of adding intravitreal bevacizumab (avastin) to conventional laser treatment on regression of retinal neovascularization in threshold rop. methods: intravitreal injection of bevacizumab (1.25 mg) in one eye of each of three newborns with threshold rop was performed in addition to laser treatment. the other eye of each patient was treated with laser alone. changes i...

Introduction: Newborns with extreme prematurity are considered those who have a birth weight under 1000 grams. Morpho-functional plurivisceral imaturity lead to particular diseases, through frequency and gravity. Objectives: The authors aim to study a lot of newborns with extremely low birth weight and to determine the major complications specific for this category. Material and method: the stu...

To estimate the prevalence of ROP and identify risk factors co-morbidities associated with it. This cross-sectional study was performed, enrolling all premature babies admitted to NICU Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital, A.M.U., Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh over 18 months. Various for were assessed using univariate multivariate analysis. Out studied 164 infants, 29 infants (17.68%) developed i...

The development of artificial intelligence methods has impacted therapeutics, personalized diagnostics, drug discovery, and medical imaging. Although, in many situations, AI clinical decision-support tools may seem superior to rule-based tools, their use result additional challenges. Examples include the paucity large datasets presence unbalanced data (i.e., due low occurrence adverse outcomes)...

OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of presence of caffeine in umbilical cord blood on apnea occurrence. METHODS A prospective cohort study with preterm newborns with birth weight lower than 2,000 g was undertaken. Exclusion criteria were: mothers who received opioids; mechanical ventilation during the first 4 days of life; cerebral and major cardiac malformations; perinatal asphyxia; severe...

Right This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Ishihara, C., Ibara, S., Ohsone, Y., Kato, E., Tokuhisa, T., Yamamoto, Y., Maede, Y., Kuwahara, T., and Minakami, H. (2016) Effects of infant flow Bi-NCPAP on apnea of prematurity. Pediatrics International, 58: 456‒460, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ped.12854. This article may be used for non...