Prognosis of babies with neonatal hepatitis.

Short-term prognosis of definitive neonatal infection

Prognosis for babies born with fused eyelids.

The overall mortality for babies referred to our unit with fused eyelids was 68.7%; but when severe skin bruising was present only one of 18 babies survived (5.6%). This compares with a survival rate of 75% for those not bruised at or soon after birth. Skin bruising invariably indicates a very poor prognosis in babies born with fused eyelids.

Improving Skin Integrity in Babies Diagnosed with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.

Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is becoming a national epidemic. Neonates with NAS display myriad signs during withdrawal from the drugs they were exposed to in utero. One sign is skin excoriation, as well as other skin injuries. While care of the neonate experiencing NAS has been well documented in the literature, the care of the skin of that neonate has not. The purpose of this monograph i...

Neonatal lupus erythematosus with cholestatic hepatitis.

Neonatal lupus erythematosus is an uncommon passive autoimmune disease in which there is transplacental passage of anti-Ro/SSA and/or anti-La/SSB or anti-U1RNP maternal autoantibodies. Its common clinical manifestations include cardiac disease, notably congenital heart block, cutaneous lupus lesions, and hematologic problems. During the past decade, it has become clear that hepatobiliary diseas...

Neonatal Seizures Characteristics and Prognosis

Seizures are the most common neurological emergency in the neonatal period. Neonatal seizures are very often named neonatal convulsions even they do not present as convulsions. They are one of the most important diagnostic and therapeutic clinical challenges. They occur during neonatal period, from birth to the end of 28th day of life [1]. Seizures are more common in the neonatal period than at...