Neurodevelopmental Prognostic Factors in 73 Neonates with the Birth Head Injury

SUPINE LENGTH, WEIGHT AND HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE OF NEONATES AT BIRTH IN URBAN AREAS OF ARAK AND FACTORS AFFECTING THEM

Prognostic Serum Factors in Traumatic Brian Injury: A Systematic Review

Background & Aim: Traumatic brain injury is one of the main causes of death and disability. The aim of this study is to systematically review the articles which assessed some serum factors of traumatic brain injury patients in relation to their outcomes. Methods & Materials/Patients: Databases were searched for relevant publications from 2005 to 2014. Selection criteria were:Studies which ev...

Prognostic Factors in Preterm Birth

Introduction: Preterm birth represents nowadays the main cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality, and its prevention continues to be one of the most difficult and complex issue in obstetrics. In spite of the spectacular progress of medicine, the incidence of preterm birth has remained unchanged in the recent decades, even more, there was recorded a slight increase of it and all these, in a p...

Predicting Factors of INSURE Failure in Low Birth Weight Neonates with RDS; A Logistic Regression Model

Background:Respiratory Distress syndrome is the most common respiratory disease in premature neonate and the most important cause of death among them. We aimed to investigate factors to predict successful or failure of INSURE method as a therapeutic method of RDS.Methods:In a cohort study,45 neonates with diagnosed RDS and birth weight lower than 1500g were included and they underwent INSURE fo...

Prognostic Factors Determining Mortality in Surgical Neonates

BACKGROUND To assess the prognosis of surgical neonates at admission and the factors responsible for mortality in neonates. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective study was conducted in a tertiary level hospital over 15 months and various clinical and biochemical parameters were collected and analyzed using STATA(®) and SPSS(®). RESULTS On multivariate analysis of 165 neonates, early gestationa...