1304 Newborn Low Birth Weight: Moroccan Data

Low Birth Weight, Very Low Birth Weight Rates and Gestational Age-Specific Birth Weight Distribution of Korean Newborn Infants

To obtain the low birth weight (LBW) rate, the very low birth weight (VLBW) rate, and gestational age (GA)-specific birth weight distribution based on a large population in Korea, we collected and analyzed the birth data of 108,486 live births with GA greater than 23 weeks for 1 yr from 1 January to 31 December 2001, from 75 hospitals and clinics located in Korea. These data included birth weig...

Laryngotracheoplasty in a low birth weight preterm newborn.

1 Otorhinolaryngologist (Fellow of the Larynx, Clinic Hospital, Porto Alegre). 2 Otorhinolaryngologist (Hired medical doctor of the Clinic Hospital, Porto Alegre. Master’s degree in pediatrics, Rio Grande do Sul Federal University). 3 Otorhinolaryngologist (Master’s degree student, Rio Grande do Sul Federal University). 4 Otorhinolaryngologist (Master’s degree in pediatrics, Rio Grande do Sul F...

Congenital Heart Malformations in Newborn Babies with Low Birth Weight.

UNLABELLED Congenital heart malformations represent a public health problem, holding a significant percentage of the total of heart diseases. Beside the elevated frequency of the malformations, we also notice their occurrence in newborn babies with low birth weight, increasing, thus, the risk of complications and late therapeutic approach. The goal of the study was to highlight the general and ...

Hospital mortality of very low birth weight newborn infants.

Low birth weight dwarfism.

In the course of time a variety of names have been given to Sterne's 'dwarf apple-trees': primordial dwarfism (von Hansemann, 1902), ateliosis (Gilford, 1904, 1911), microsomie essentielle (Levi, 1910), nannosomia (or nanosomia) vera, constitutional, proportionate, genetic, and intra-uterine (Russell, 1954) dwarfism. Recently Seckel (1960) has shown that a distinct variety of low birth weight d...