OBJECTIVES To assess quality of life (QoL) in a group of young adults born in 1980-1982 with very low birth weight (VLBW) and to compare this with a reference group and a similar cohort born eight years earlier. DESIGN Telephone interview using a fully structured questionnaire. SETTING Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit. PATIENTS VLBW group (n = 92, 90% participation rate), LBW group (n...

Objective. This study sought to increase understanding of relations among coping strategies, sociodemographic variables, and psychological distress in mothers of high-risk (HR) and low-risk (LR) very low birth weight (VLBW; < 1,500g) infants. Design. The sample (N = 199) consisted of 77 mothers of HR VLBW infants, 43 mothers of LR VLBW infants, and a control group of 79 mothers of healthy, term...

conclusions according to our study, phototherapy should not be used as prophylactic therapy for all vlbw infants, but rather it should be individualized in order to maintain low bilirubin levels. results the mean bilirubin level on the first day in both groups exhibited no significant difference. the peak serum bilirubin was 7.7 ± 1.4 and 8.5 ± 2.1 mg/dl in the prophylactic and therapeutic grou...

BACKGROUND Early enteral feeding practices are potentially modifiable risk factors for necrotising enterocolitis in very preterm or very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. Observational studies suggest that conservative feeding regimens that include slowly advancing enteral feed volumes reduce the risk of necrotising enterocolitis. However, slow feed advancement may delay establishment of full en...

Neonatal sepsis remains one of the most important causes of death and co-morbidity in very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants. The aim of this study was to determine the current incidences of early-onset sepsis (EOS) and late-onset sepsis (LOS), the distribution of pathogens, and the impact of infection on co-morbidities in VLBW infants. We analyzed the data including sepsis episode from 2,386 VLB...

PURPOSE One of the major causes of bowel obstruction in extremely premature infants is a meconium obstruction. However, there are many challenges not only in the recognition and diagnosis, but also in the management of meconium obstruction. This study aimed to find perioperative clinical features and determine the postoperative course of meconium-related ileus in very low birth weight (VLBW) an...