VELOCITY GROWTH CURVES FOR VLBW INFANTS. † 1224
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Improving growth outcomes of VLBW infants: how to start?
In 1977, the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition first stated that the goal of nutritional management of VLBW infants should be to permit the rate of extrauterine growth and the composition of weight gain to approximate that of a normal fetus of the same postmenstrual age, if the infant had remained in utero(1). However, it has become clear that such a goal is more often not r...
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OBJECTIVE: Early diagnosis of significant patent ductus arteriosus reduces the risk of clinical worsening in very low birth weight infants. Echocardiographic patent ductus arteriosus shunt flow pattern can be used to predict significant patent ductus arteriosus. Pulmonary venous flow, expressed as vein velocity time integral, is correlated to ductus arteriosus closure. The aim of this study is ...
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OBJECTIVES To assess growth outcomes of VLBW infants using different growth references and to validate the practice of age adjustment for prematurity in the growth assessment for VLBW infants. METHODS Longitudinal growth data of 514 VLBW infants from 4 to 36 months of adjusted age were analyzed separately based on chronological and adjusted age and by comparison with three growth references. ...
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate growth and neurodevelopmental outcome of very low birth weight infants (VLBW) and compare with term normal birth weight infants (NBW) till 12 months corrected age. DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SETTING Tertiary care neonatal unit in northern India. SUBJECTS 37 VLBW infants and 35 NBW infants born between January 2007 and December 2007. INTERVENTIONS Anthropome...
متن کاملTen-year review of major birth defects in VLBW infants.
OBJECTIVE Birth defects (BDs) are an important cause of infant mortality and disproportionately occur among low birth weight infants. We determined the prevalence of BDs in a cohort of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants cared for at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network (NRN) centers over a 10-year period and examined the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199604001-01246