Respiratory distress in a moderately preterm baby often presents diagnostic and management challenges to the attending paediatrician. Many of these babies will require little or no intervention, but it is known that early intervention in babies with acute respiratory distress often prevents further complications. Most current research evidence relates to extremely preterm newborns, yet moderate...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of iodine containing antiseptics on thyroid function for the first 3 weeks in non-very-low-birth weight preterm and term babies, and to evaluate their thyroid function and behavioral status 7 years later. METHODS Cohort I (between the years 1997-1998) was studied in 57 preterm (30-35 weeks) and 29 term newborns, 7 years later cohort II (in the year 2005) was ...

Preterm Birth: Introduction Low birthweight defines neonates who are born too small, and preterm or premature birth are the terms used to define neonates who are born too early. With respect to gestational age, a newborn may be preterm, term, or postterm. With respect to size, a newborn may be normally grown or appropriate for gestational age, small in size or small-for-gestational age, or over...

Increased pulmonary vascular resistance in preterm newborn infants with respiratory distress syndrome is suggested, and endothelin-1 plays an important role in pulmonary vascular reactivity in newborns. We determined umbilical cord blood and neonatal (second sample) levels of endothelin-1 in 18 preterm newborns with respiratory distress syndrome who had no clinical or echocardiographic diagnosi...

BACKGROUND The perfusion index, derived from the pulse oximeter signal, seems to be an accurate predictor for high illness severity in newborns. The aim of this study was to determine the perfusion index values of clinically and hemodynamically stable preterm newborns in the first week of life. METHODS Perfusion index recordings were performed on the first, third and seventh day of life on 30...

The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the need for additional enteral protein supplementation in preterm newborns with gestational age (GA) ≤32 weeks after full enteral feeds with either fortified breast milk (FBM) or preterm formula (PF) were reached, and to determine the effects of additional protein on physical and neurological development. After the standard early total parenter...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence hypoglycemia and its increased risk morbidity mortality in preterm newborns. Study Design: Cross-sectional Place Duration: was conducted at Children Medical Center (CMC) / Dr Habib un Nabi Hospital Airport Road Mingora Swat Memon Institute Karachi for duration six months from January 2021 June 2021. Methods: Total 120 neonates ...

To determine whether there is a difference on the historical and clinical characteristics of omphalitis among term and preterm appropriate for gestational age (AGA) and small for gestational age (SGA) infants, we prospectively investigated 85 newborns with bacteriologically proved omphalitis. Study groups were based on gestational age and being SGA. Preterm AGA infants had significantly lower m...

47 Abstract: We included in this study 1100 newborns whose gestational ages were between 26 and 42 weeks. Of these infants, 323(29.4%) were preterm. The others 777(70.6%) were term infants. In term newborns, the mean weight, length, head circumference and ponderal indexes of males were significantly higher than those of females (p<0.01, p<0.01, p<0.01, p<0.05, respectively); in preterm infants ...