Serum IgM and IgA levels were measured in 97 newborn infants with and 141 without hepatosplenomegaly. All were considered normal at birth and had no apparent disease on clinical examination. Thirty per cent. of the infants with hepatosplenomegaly were found to have IgM levels of 20 mg/100 ml or greater, a level established as abnormal when compared with the control group. The number of infants ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the association between maternal ethnicity and gestational age with the incidence of low birth weight and intrauterine growth restriction. STUDY DESIGN Prospective, analytic study Methods: The study was conducted between March 14th and April 4th 2011 in Women's Hospital HMC. The data was ascertained from the delivery register of labor ward on daily basis using predesigned...

We report the cases of two patients who had a favorable outcome with aspirin and corticosteroid therapy during pregnancy for chronic villitis of unknown etiology complicated by labor asphyxia and further intrauterine fetal demise in one gravida 3 patient and for chronic intervillositis of unknown etiology diagnosed after three perinatal deaths in another patient (gravida 4). Chronic villitis of...

Recent studies have shown that infants with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) undergo catch-up growth during infancy. The aim of our study was to evaluate the postnatal growth in a cohort of IUGR infants born in a tertiary-level Obstetric University Hospital of Northern Sardinia. An observational retrospective study was conducted on 12 IUGR (group A) and 12 control infants (group B) by mea...

OBJECTIVES To assess the patterns of early postnatal physiological adaptation and maturation in intrauterine growth retarded (IUGR) infants by measuring changes in sleeping deep body temperature, heart rate, and concentrations of urinary cortisol. SETTING At home. PATIENTS Sixty five IUGR babies and 127 controls matched for sex, social class, and levels of parental smoking. RESULTS Night ...

Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) is a significant problem in livestock production. It adversely affects neonatal survival, postnatal growth performance, efficiency of feed utilization, tissue composition (including protein, fat and minerals), meat quality, long-term health of offspring, and adult onset of disease. Genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors (including nutrition), as wel...

Arend F Bos* MD PhD, Neonatologist, Department of Pediatrics, Beatrix Children’s Hospital, University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands; Christa Einspieler PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology, Department of Physiology, Karl Franzens University; Heinz F R Prechtl DM DPhil FRCOG (Hon), Professor Emeritus of Developmental Neurology, Department of Physiology, Karl Franzens University, Graz, A...

BACKGROUND/AIM Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) is a pathological condition of pregnancy characterised by birth weight below the 10th centile. A number of fetal, placental and maternal causes can lead to IUGR; although, in most cases no specific causes can be identified. The aim of this study was to determine the part of chromosomal abnormalities in IUGR etiology. METHODS Fetal blood ka...

The association of inherited and acquired thrombophilias (which predispose to thrombotic vascular occlusions) with the risk of eclampsia, abruptio placentae, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), and stillbirth has been the object of many studies in the last few years (1 ). The rationale for these studies was based on the hypothesis that the formation of thrombi in the placental circulation o...