BACKGROUND The prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) in pregnancy is 2-10% and is associated with both maternal and neonatal adverse outcomes as pyelonephritis and preterm delivery. Antibiotic treatment is reported to decrease these adverse outcomes although the existing evidence is of poor quality. METHODS/DESIGN We plan a combined screen and treat study in women with a singleton preg...

Background: Illness severity scores have been used as predictors of neonatal mortality to give prognostic information to parents about their baby,to identify high risk babies for prompt action (triage) and for standardized comparisons between neonatal units for quality assessment. Objective:To evaluatethe TOPS (Temperature,Oxygenation,Perfusion and blood Sugar) score predictive value for hospit...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate maternal and neonatal outcomes associated with operative vaginal deliveries (OVDs) performed by day and at night. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Urban maternity unit in Ireland with off-site consultant staff at night. POPULATION All nulliparous women requiring an OVD with a term singleton fetus in a cephalic presentation from February to November 2013. ME...

We aimed to evaluate the neonates diagnosed as IEM in our neonatal intensive care unit and their outcomes. Among 2994 neonates hospitalized, 51 were diagnosed as IEM (1.7%). Admission complaints were poor feeding, decreased activity, jaundice, seizures, abnormal screening and respiratory problems. Phenylketonuria (11), organic acidemias (8), maple syrup urine disease (5), citrullinemia (5), gal...

We describe the case of a neonate with aneurysm of vein of Galen that was diagnosed prenatally in the 33rd gestational week by MRI. A 27-year-old woman, gravida 2, para 2, was admitted to our department at 33 weeks of gestation with suspected fetal hydrocephaly. Ultrasound examination after admission demonstrated an anechoic, supratentorial, and median mass with regular borders, raising the pos...

BACKGROUND Neonatal septicaemia remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The aetiology, risk factors and outcome of this problem need to understood. OBJECTIVE To determine the aetiology, risk factors and immediate outcome of bacteriologically confirmed neonatal septicaemia in Mulago hospital. METHODS Blood cultures were aseptically obtained from neonates presenting with clinical se...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To determine if a team dedicated to basic neonatal resuscitation in the delivery ward of a teaching hospital would impact the outcome of neonates delivered in Kampala, Uganda. METHODS A five-member team of nurses, trained in basic neonatal resuscitation attended 1046 deliveries over a thirty-one day pilot period. They were available in the delivery ward twenty-four hours e...

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a statistical prediction model spanning the severity range of neonatal outcomes in infants born at ≤ 30 weeks' gestation. METHODS A national cohort of infants, born at 23 to 30 weeks' gestation and admitted to level III NICUs in Canada in 2010-2011, was identified from the Canadian Neonatal Network database. A multinomial logistic regression model was develop...

BACKGROUND If it is well known that obesity increases morbidity for both mother and fetus and is associated with a variety of adverse reproductive outcomes, then few studies have assessed the relation between obesity and neonatal outcomes. This is the aim of the present study after taking into account type of labor and delivery, as well as social, medical and hospital characteristics in a popul...

BACKGROUND We investigated associations between maternal characteristics, access to care, and obstetrical complications including near miss status on admission or during hospitalization on perinatal outcomes among Indonesian singletons. METHODS We prospectively collected data on inborn singletons at two hospitals in East Java. Data included socio-demographics, reproductive, obstetric and neon...