The magic baby: an extremely preterm baby case from Syria

Immunoglobulin profile of the preterm baby.

Immunoglobulin concentrations were determined in 64 consecutively born preterm babies at birth and serially throughout each baby's stay in the neonatal unit. No significant IgG generation was found during the first 15 weeks of life, regression analysis giving an exponential decay model. Concentrations fell to 2 g/l or less in 10 (16%) babies (gestational age 25 to 32 weeks), and were as low as ...

Gastroesophageal Reflux (GER) in the Preterm Baby

Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) is very common among preterm infants, but its real frequency is not well established. GER may be obvious, manifesting with regurgitations or emesis or more difficult to detect when associated with general symptoms such as apnea, bradycardia, pallor, oxygen desaturation, severe malaise, feeding difficulties with weight loss or poor growth (failure to thrive), crying...

Sandhoff disease in an extreme preterm baby with bilateral syndactyly.

andhoff disease (GM2 gangliosidosis) is much less common than Tay-Sachs disease. Both are autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorders (GM gangliosidoses). But Sandhoff disease is caused by mutations of the gene encoding the beta sub-unit of hexosaminidase, on chromosome 5. In Tay-Sachs disease, the mutation is in the alpha sub-unit on chromosome 15.1 Since both hexosaminidase A and hexosami...

Ectropion in A Case of Collodion Baby

The Baby Boom and Baby Bust

The fertility of American women over the last 200 years has two salient features, portrayed in Figure 1. First, it has declined drastically. The average white woman bore 7 children in 1800. By 1990 this had dropped to just 2. This decline in fertility ran unabated during the 140-year period between 1800 and 1940. Second, fertility showed a surprising recovery between the mid1940s and mid-1960s....