Prevention of protein deprivation in the extremely low birth weight infant: a nutritional emergency.

Pericardial Effusion in an Extreme Low Birth Weight Neonate with Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter

Background: Pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade are the rare complications of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC insertion) in extreme low birth weight infants. In this regard, paying attention to these complications is of utmost importance, because they can result in infant death. Case report: The case of our infant is a sa...

The Survival of a 580 g Infant Conceived by In vitroFertilization: A Case Report

3 rowth Failure in the Preterm Infant : an We Catch Up ? nna

ostnatal growth failure is extremely common in the very low birth weight and extremely low birth eight infant. Recent data from the National Institute of Child and Human Development (NICHD) eonatal Research Network indicates that 16% of extremely low birth weight infants are small for estational age at birth, but by 36 weeks corrected age, 89% have growth failure. Follow-up at 18 to 2 months co...

Early aggressive nutrition in very preterm infants.

Despite numerous advances in the nutrition of preterm infants, the increasing survival at lower birth weights is resulting in a new frontier of extrauterine nutritional support of these vulnerable infants. The extremely low birth weight infant has endogenous energy to maintain energy balance for only 3-4 days without an exogenous energy supply. Nevertheless, many clinicians are still hesitant t...

The growth assessment of very low birth weight infant at corrected two years old

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the growth status of very low birth infant at corrected age of two years. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on all babies with birth weight ≤1500 gr without any congenital anomalies, genetic disturbance and chronic disease (e.g. cardiopulmonary insufficiency, cholestasis, malabsorption). They were called at corrected age 2 year...