UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between meningitis and neonatal period of complications such as massive intraventricular hemorrhage and into brain tissue, hypoxic-ischemic white matter injury retinopathy of prematurity 3-5 degrees and deafness in infants born prematurely from single and multiple pregnancies. MATERIAL The retrospective study covered 460 prete...

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this research was to assess the effects of breast milk on the severity and outcome of neonatal abstinence syndrome. METHODS.We conducted a retrospective chart review of 190 drug-dependent mother and infant pairs. Patients were categorized according to the predominant type of milk consumed by the infant on the fifth day of life (breast milk: n 85 or formula: n 105). The...

BACKGROUND Reduction of fetal number has been offered in high order multiple gestations but is still controversial in triplets. Since recent advances in neonatal and obstetric care have greatly improved outcome, the benefits of multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) may no longer exist in triplet gestations. OBJECTIVES To evaluate if fetal reduction of triplets to twins improves outcome. MET...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have suggested that preterm birth with or without subsequent chronic lung disease is associated with reduced functional residual capacity (FRC) and increased ventilation inhomogeneity in the neonatal period. We aimed to establish whether such findings are associated with the degree of prematurity, neonatal respiratory illness and disproportionate somatic growth. ME...

BACKGROUND Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), one of the most common causes of preventable blindness in preterm neonates, is emerging as a 'third epidemic' in middle-income countries including South Africa. This is due to the increasing survival of preterm neonates, insufficient monitoring of oxygen saturation (SaO2) in most centres, and lack of an ROP screening guideline in most neonatal units....

Neonatal mortality is one of the very important indicators, which reflect country’s development. A better understanding of events determining the mortality of neonates could contribute to a more effective approach to saving their lives. The aim is to assess the mortality pattern in the neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care centre from western Uttar Pradesh. Retrospective cohort of ped...

AIM To assess the relative effect of birth weight and gestational age on retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) using preterm twin pairs discordant for birth weigh in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit in China. METHODS Fifty-six discordant twin pairs of 112 preterm infants were retrospectively analyzed. The twin pairs were divided into two subgroups based on birth weight in each pair. The occ...

Introduction Despite many years of clinical observation and experimental investigation, the pathogenesis of neonatal enterocolitis (NEC) remains elusive. The multifactorial theory suggests that four key risk factors—prematurity, formula feeding, intestinal ischemia, and bacterial colonization—are important prerequisites to the initiation of intestinal injury in neonates (Figure). Current hypoth...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There is a huge need for blood transfusion in the newborn particularly due to the reduced marrow activity in the neonatal period. Despite widely use of blood products in the neonatal period, there is paucity of local data on the pattern, indications and reactions to blood transfusions in Nigerian newborns. This study evaluates the blood transfusion indications and patt...