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Angiología es una revista científica bimensual editada desde 1949. Está dedicada al estudio de las enfermedades vasculares, incluyendo todos los aspectos la medicina vascular, el diagnóstico no invasivo, tratamiento quirúrgico tradicional arterial y venoso, así como mínimamente invasivo y/o endovascular.

AIM Children born extremely preterm are at risk of visual processing problems related to brain damage. Damage in visual pathways can remain undetected by conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional consequences cannot always be predicted. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of processing visual information in infants born extremely preterm at a corrected age of 1 y...

This systematic review was to identify available evidence on the effectiveness of tocolysis in inhibiting preterm delivery for women with threatened extremely preterm birth, multiple gestations, and growth-restricted babies, and their infants' outcomes. A comprehensive search using MEDLINE, Embase, the Cochrane Library, CINAHL, POPLINE and the WHO Global Health Library databases was conducted o...

1.1 Definitions Preterm birth (PTB) refers to the birth of a baby that occurs before 37 completed weeks of gestation. PTB can be further sub-categorized as late preterm delivery34 to 36 completed weeks gestation, moderately preterm32 to 34 completed weeks, very pretermless than 32 weeks, and extremely pretermless than 28 weeks gestation (Lockwood, et al., 2011). Preterm birth can also be define...

BACKGROUND Preterm birth, defined as birth occurring before 37 weeks gestation, is one of the most significant contributors to neonatal mortality and morbidity, with long-term adverse consequences for health, and cognitive outcome. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to identify risk factors of preterm birth (≤36+6 weeks gestation) among singleton births and to quantify the contributio...

BACKGROUND It is not yet known whether the risk of developing atopic dermatitis (AD) is influenced by preterm birth. Moreover, AD risk has not been assessed in a large sample of extremely preterm infants (< 29 weeks' gestation). OBJECTIVES To determine whether the risk of AD is influenced by preterm birth. METHODS We investigated the relationship between gestational age (GA) and AD using da...