how to cite this article: chiabi a, nguefack s, mah e, nodem s, mbuagbaw l, mbonda e, tchokoteu pf, doh a. risk factors for birth asphyxia in an urban health facility in cameroon. iran j child neurol. 2013 summer; 7(3):46-54. objective the world health organization (who) estimates that 4 million children are born with asphyxia every year, of which 1 million die and an equal number survive with ...

vitamin k is required for the hepatic production of blood coagulation factors ii, vii, ix and x. the term vitamin k refers to a variety of fat-soluble 2-methyl-1, 4-naphthoquinone derivatives. vitamin k1 (phylloquinone) occurs in green plants, while vitamin k2 (menaquinone) is synthesized by microbial in the gut. the recommended dose of vitamin k in neonates is 1 mg intramuscularly. for infants...

abstract background: nutrients meeting recommended dietary intakes take time to establish and once established are rarely maintained throughout hospital stay in preterm infants. methods: our purpose is to define the nutritional status and growth parameters of hospitalized patients at discharge in our hospital. data were obtained concerning all 50 infants born weighing < 1800 g and < 34 weeks of...

many premature neonates suffer from apnea, and aminophylline is administrated for them. the objective of this study was to reveal pharmacokinetic (pk) parameters of theophylline in iranian premature neonates. premature neonates (68) who were admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) of namazi, hafez, and zeinabieh hospitals were included in the study. all of them received 5 mg/kg amin...

previous studies have shown that injection of iodized oil in pregnant women can be used as a prophylactic strategy for iodine deficiency disorders and may improve the growth indices of their offspring. since administration of pharmacological doses of iodine may lead occasionally to large goiter and rarely to hypothyroidism, in the present study the thyroid function tests of neonates and infants...

Background: Sepsis is the second-leading cause of death in neonates. We established a predictive nomogram to identify critically ill neonates early and reduce time treatment.

glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) deficiency is the most important disease of the hexose monophosphate pathway. deficiency of this enzym can lead to hemolysis of red blood cells. our aim was to study the prevalence of g6pd deficiency in relation to neonatal jaundice. we studied 456 clinically icteric neonates laboratory investigations included determination of direct and indirect serum b...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Abnormal cerebral microstructure has been documented in term neonates with congenital heart disease, portending risk for injury and poor neurodevelopmental outcome. Our hypothesis was that preterm neonates with congenital heart disease would demonstrate diffuse cerebral microstructural abnormalities when compared with critically ill neonates without congenital heart disea...

This systematic review is the product of 25 top published journals. The search engines adopted in this study werePubMed, Medline, CINHAL, Cochrane Library, Google Scholar, and Research gate. inclusion criteria were:1.Papers between 2000-2020, 2.Top tier journal articles (High quality), 3. Term Healthy neonates preterm neonates, 4.Neonates undergoing various painful procedures Neonates receive d...

Rates of chronic kidney disease (CKD) among Indigenous groups in Australia exceed non-Indigenous rates eight-fold. Using kidney volume as a surrogate for nephron number, we carried out a study to determine if Indigenous neonates have a smaller kidney volume (and thus a reduced nephron number) from birth compared with non-Indigenous neonates. We recruited term and preterm neonates (<32 weeks) at...