background: to determine the prevalence and characteristics of birth defects in perinatal infants in hubei province during 200l-2008. methods: the prevalence of birth defects in perinatal infants delivered after 28 weeks or more was analyzed in hubei surveillance hospitals during 200l-2008. results: the incidence of birth defects in perinatal infants from 200l to 2008 was 120.0 per 10,000 birth...

background: morbidity and mortality of preterm babies are important issues in perinatal medicine. in developed countries, preterm delivery is the cause of about 70% of mortality and 75% of morbidity in the neonatal period, respectively. objective: the aim of this study was to determine the risk factors for preterm labor and the outcomes, in terms of perinatal mortality and morbidity at the time...

PURPOSE To study the validity of urinary uric acid (UA) as a marker of perinatal asphyxia in term and premature infants. METHODS The urinary ratio of UA to creatinine (Cr) was obtained within 24 hours after birth in four groups of infants: 17 term infants and 18 premature infants with perinatal asphyxia, and 22 healthy term infants and 20 premature infants without perinatal asphyxia. Perinata...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Perinatal exposure is an important mode of hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission, resulting in chronic disease in ∼ 90% of infected infants. Immunoprophylaxis recommended for infants born to hepatitis B surface antigen-positive mothers reduces up to 95% of perinatal HBV infections. We sought to identify factors associated with perinatal HBV transmission. METHODS We an...

Fetal or neonatal brain injury can result in lifelong neurologic disability. The most significant risk factor for perinatal brain injury is prematurity; however, in absolute numbers, full-term infants represent the majority of affected children. Research on strategies to prevent or mitigate the impact of perinatal brain injury ("perinatal neuroprotection") has established the mitigating roles o...

Objective: Asphyxia  is  a  major  cause  of  acute  mortality  and  chronic  neurologic  disability  in  neonates. We sought to  define  the  predictive  values  of  serum  concentrations  of  interleukin-1β  in  newborns  with perinatal asphyxia to see if there is a relation between interleukin-1β (IL-1β) levels to the short term neurological deficit.  Methods: This was a prospective (case-co...

objective assessment of risk predictors for adverse neurodevelopmental outcome at 1 year of age in term and near-term infants. material & methods this case-control study was a representative sample of infants from different health-care centers of north and east of tehran. the association between risk factors and delayed motor development (developmental quotient below 70 indicating a significant...

This study aimed to assess the perinatal morbidity and mortality in breech deliveries, to study the correlation of parity and birth weight with perinatal mortality by mode of delivery. Of 210 women in labour in Basra maternity and child hospital, 97 underwent vaginal breech deliveries and 113 delivered by caesarean section. Birth trauma was restricted to vaginal deliveries. The perinatal mortal...

AIM To evaluate maternal hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA as risk for perinatal HBV infection among infants of HBV-infected women in California. METHODS Retrospective analysis among infants born to hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive mothers who received post vaccination serologic testing (PVST) between 2005 and 2011 in California. Demographic information was collected from the California...