congenital chylothorax is an uncommon cause of respiratory distress and a life-threatening condition in newborns. it is identified by abnormal accumulation of chyle in the pleural space. herein, we report a male infant who was born by a successful vaginal delivery. after the first three days of life, he had feeding difficulties and cyanotic episodes during breastfeeding. on admission, physical ...

background: adrenal hematoma is a very rare acquired cause of neonatal hypertension. in this study, we report a case of neonatal hypertension associated with adrenal hematoma. a male neonate was immediately transferred to our neonatal intensive care unit after delivery due to meconium aspiration. he needed to be on mechanical ventilation support. during his hospital stay, hospital records showe...

patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, 791 infants were recruited via non-random sampling. demographic and clinical characteristics of the subjects were gathered, and the automated auditory brainstem response (aabr) test was performed upon admission. afterwards, the subjects were followed-up and re-assessed, using the aabr test. for infants with abnormal aabr results, the auditory ...

objective(s): in recent years, there has been an increasing amount of study on early diagnosis of kidney injury through sensitive and specific biomarkers. we examined the practical applicability of the urinary levels of nag (n-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase), ap (alkaline phosphatase), and ldh (lactate dehydrogenase) as renal dysfunction screening biomarkers in full and pre-term newborns treated wi...

introduction: the findings of cephalometry studies are widely applied in medical and engineering fields. cephalometry measurements are affected by genetics‚ age‚ gender‚ and social‚ economic and geographic factors.this study assesses cephalometry of the neurocranium in male newborns in kermanshah,iran by an anthropometry method to confirm or reject the theory of brachycephalization (i.e., a spr...

sarah was  a 22 year old woman who passing her first pregnancy.  the  pregnancy was unplanned and random and she did not know her last menstrual history. he was visited at home by a midwife community health. no important problem was found in his medical history but he was  smoking 20 cigarettes daily . it was noteworthy that saeed ,his wife, had transient neonatal diabetes history. although sar...

background preeclampsia is a major cause of maternal, fetal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the laboratory disorders in neonates born to preeclamptic mothers. patients and methods this descriptive-retrospective study was conducted in the neonatal units of shahid beheshti and shabihkhani hospitals on neonates born to preeclamptic mothers du...

objective: early discharge of newborns is essential because of social, economic an medical reasons in our area, but it increases readmission rates especially for hyperbilirubinemia. hence, predicting the high risk neonates for subsequent hyperbilirubinemia is required. this study was designed to investigate which level of total serum bilirubin (tsb) at the first day could be used to predict hyp...