Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants; 80-90% of cases occur between birth and the third day of life. In a retrospective case control clinical study, files of all premature infants with birth weights <1500 grams admitted between April 2004 and October 2005 to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Akbar Aba...

Epidemiologic and clinical studies of pregnancy outcome often consider a variety of related, overlapping outcome measures. The overlap among these measures was analyzed using data from the Mount Sinai Hospital Perinatal Data Base, New York City, New York. A total of 52,621 births from 1986 through 1996 were included, with information on gender, ethnicity, birth weight, and gestational age assig...

T he effect of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine–7 (PCV-7) in reducing pneumococcal nasopharyngeal (NP) carriage in very low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants has not been studied. Our primary objective was to characterize NP carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in a group of VLBW infants (weight, 4011500 g) before administration of the first PCV-7 vaccine (prevaccine) and at 4 to 6 weeks after a 3-dose...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of biological maternal sounds (BMS) on weight gain velocity in very low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants (≤ 1,500 g). STUDY DESIGN An exploratory study with a matched-control design. A prospective cohort of VLBW infants exposed to attenuated recordings of BMS during their neonatal intensive care unit hospitalization were compared with retrospective controls matched...

Background: Enteral intolerance in premature infants is associated with several morbidities, especially very low birth weight (VLBW). There are only a few dietary practices to provide better outcomes newborns VLBW. This study aimed assess the factors time achieve full enteral feeding (FEF) VLBW.&#x0D; Methods: was retrospective on VLBW Neonatology Unit of Sanglah Central General Hospital, Bali ...

AUGUST 29: HURRICANE KATRINA LANDFALL: I am a neonatologist in private practice and had been at the hospital for 24 hours along with 40 other physicians. I had volunteered to take care of the patients at Memorial Medical Center (MMC) during Hurricane Katrina. There were 16 infants in the NICU, 260 patients in total at the hospital, 500 essential employees, and 1200 family members of the patient...

Epoprostenol has been the first effective treatment for severe pulmonary arterial hypertension. Epoprostenol is provided in vials for adult therapy. To our knowledge there are no reports on specific dilution protocols for epoprostenol in VLBW infants, when very small infusion rates are required. We describe the dilution protocol we applied to a preterm infant who was born at 30 weeks of gestati...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Hearing plays an essential role in the acquisition, development and maintenance of the properties of the speech and language. Birth weight is an indicator of biological maturation of the newborn. Premature newborns with very low birth weight (VLBW<1,500 g) constitute a group with the highest risk of sensorineural hearing loss. Our objective was to ascertain the degree...

OBJECTIVE Patent ductus arteriosus is very commonly seen in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants, affecting about one-third. The present review tries to identify the group of VLBW infants who need active intervention in day-to-day practice and to determine the mode of intervention, based on current published literatures. METHODS We searched the Cochrane library, MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL dat...

BACKGROUND The current recommendation of giving the first dose of hepatitis B vaccine to very low birth weight (VLBW) infants at 30 days of chronologic age usually is not practical, because most VLBW infants are not medically stable at that age. We use an alternative body-weight-based protocol, and evaluate its efficacy in an endemic area under a universal immunization program. METHODS The im...