Objectives: To report a case of vertical dengue infection in a newborn fromRio de Janeiro, Brazil, and to review the literature concerning this problem. Description: We report a case of vertical dengue infection. Female neonate, birth weight 3,940 g, term, was admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit on the fifth day of life with fever and erythematous rash. Hermother had had dengue fever 3 d...

Here we present a case of a neonate with NEC, with an emphasis on portal venous gas. A 21-day-old neonate born at full term with normal vaginal delivery presented with poor feeding and vomiting. An abdominal US was ordered with a clinical suspicion of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. It revealed foci of free air within the peritoneal cavity and air within the walls of the small bowel loops (Figur...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remains the most common reason for emergent surgery in the neonatal intensive care unit. The common pathophysiology in all NEC involves alteration in gut microflora, abnormal blood supply to the intestine, and uncontrolled cytokine release. We report a full-term neonate who developed NEC. The neonate had surgical resection of approximately 120cms of bowel. After ...

a descriptive prospective study was undertaken to determine birth weight, length and head circumference of live births and to examine the effect of maternal age, parity and gestational age on birth sizes of the live births. a total of 459 term singleton maternal– neonate pairs were studied. the neonates had anthropometric measurements determined with in 24hours of life using standard methods. t...

Background: Harlequin ichthyosis (HI) is a severe and rare autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis, characterized by hyperkeratosis, extensive fissuring massive, diamond-shaped scales which limit the child’s movements. The term harlequin comes from baby’s facial expression pattern of like 17th century entertainers, harlequins. underlying genetic abnormality has been identified as mutation in ...

The objective of this study was evaluation of excessive pregnancy weight gain effect in non-diabetic women with normal pre-pregnancy BMI on macrosomia of neonate. In a descriptive cross-sectional study, neonate weighs of all term pregnancy in non-diabetic women with normal pre-pregnancy BMI delivered from 2002 to 2004 in Shaheed Sadoughi Hospital in Yazd, were evaluated. Compared with mothers w...

We describe the EEG findings from an ex-preterm neonate at term equivalent age who presented with intermittent but prolonged apneic episodes which were presumed to be seizures. A total of 8 apneic episodes were captured (duration 23-376 seconds) during EEG monitoring. The baseline EEG activity was appropriate for corrected gestational age and no electrographic seizure activity was recorded. The...

Intracranial hemorrhage in a term neonate is a rare event in the absence of an identifiable precipitating factor such as severe thrombocytopenia, mechanical trauma, asphyxia, infections, or congenital vascular malformations. Congenital disorders of glycosylation are a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of multisystem disorders characterized by the abnormal glycosylation of a number ...