Perinatal asphyxia is one of the leading causes of neonatal mortality in India. In addition to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury and neurological deficits, there is evidence of multi-system insult (l). Hepatic dysfunction is caused by redistributing cardiac output away from nonvital viscera to the heart, brain and adrenal glands (2). The present study was carried out to determine the extent of live...

Globally, approximately 75% of blind children live in low-income countries (LICs). Almost half of blindness and low vision in LICs is due to avoidable causes such as corneal scarring from measles infection, vitamin A deficiency disorders, use of harmful traditional eye remedies, ophthalmia neonatorum and cataract.

were estimated to cost $1.94 and $72.12 per infant, respectively. There were 4 247 000 births in the United States in 2008. Assuming an average of 354 000 births per month, the average monthly cost of universal prophylaxis for ophthalmia neonatorum would be $2.8 million for povidoneiodine (assuming costs of $7.77 per infant), $0.7 million for erythromycin, and $25.5 million for topical azithrom...

Nine neonates with culture proved gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum were treated with a single intramuscular injection of 100 mg/kg of cefotaxime without topical antibiotic therapy. Five of the nine strains were penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae. All nine cases were clinically and microbiologically cured, and no side effects were observed.

Fifty seven babies with ophthalmia neonatorum had conjunctival smears examined by microscopy and bacterial culture, and by immunofluorescence, to find out which was the best method of diagnosing chlamydial conjunctivitis. The positive (33%) and negative (70%) predictive values of microscopy and culture were too low for us to accept it as an adequate method of detecting the presence of Chlamydia...

On The Influence of Abnormal Parturition, Difficult Labours, Premature Birth, and Asphyxia Neonatorum, on the Mental and Physical Condition of the Child, Especially in Relation to Deformities By W. J. Little, MD Senior-Physician to the London Hospital; Founder of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital; VisitingPhysician to Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood; etc. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of Lo...