Abstract Introduction Anemia in preterm infants is identified as hemoglobin lower than 7-10g/dl around 1-3 months after birth. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of early subcutaneous administration of erythropoietin on hematopoiesis and weight gain velocity in preterm infants. Materials and Methods The present study was clinical trial carried out on 42 preterm infants. Those ...

Aperia, A., Broherger, O., Thodenius, K. and Zetterstrom, R. (Department of Paediatrics, Karolinska Institutet, S:t Gciran’s Children’s Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden). Developmental study of the renal response to an oral salt load in preterm infants. Acta Paediatr Scand 63: 517, 1974.-An evaluation of sodium homeostasis in 44 preterm infants with gestational ages between 29 and 37 weeks has been ...

Very low birth weight (VLBW) preterm infants are vulnerable to growth restriction after discharge due to cumulative protein and energy deficits during their hospital stay and early post-discharge period. The current study evaluated the effectiveness of the preterm infant, post-discharge nutrition (PIN) program to reduce post-discharge growth restriction in Thai VLBW preterm infants. A prospecti...

BACKGROUND Preterm infants are at risk for neonatal morbidity, transiently reduced thyroid hormone (TH) levels, and impaired visual abilities. To determine the interrelationship between these factors, we measured TH levels in the period ex utero and compared their visual abilities with those of term infants at 6 months (corrected) of age. METHODS The preterm group consisted of 62 infants stra...

OBJECTIVE Neonatal screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) among preterm infants is complicated by the fact that healthy preterm infants have higher levels of 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP) than term infants, resulting in a higher false-positive rate. Even when gestational age-related cutoff levels after ether extraction were used, the false-positive cases primarily comprised preter...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Infants born preterm differ in their spontaneous kicking, as well as their learning and memory abilities in the mobile paradigm, compared with infants born full-term. In the mobile paradigm, a supine infant's ankle is tethered to a mobile so that leg kicks cause a proportional amount of mobile movement. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative kicking fre...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence and morbidities of Chlamydia trachomatis infections in newborn infants. Tissue culture and direct immunofluorescence (DIF) tests were used to detect the presence of nasopharyngeal C. trachomatis infection in 35 preterm and 21 healthy term neonates. All infants were followed up clinically for 3 months, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ...

background: respiratory distress syndrome and persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn are common acquired diseases in preterm infants. in the past several years, randomized controlled trials (rcts) have indicated that inhaled nitric oxide (ino) can potentially lower for both the incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (bpd) and mortality in affected infants. other research has, however...

Questions: Do very low-birthweight (VLBW) preterm infants attain walking later than term infants? What factors predict delayed walking attainment in very low-birthweight preterm infants? Design: Inception cohort study with 18month follow-up. Setting: University hospital in Taiwan. Patients: Ninety-six VLBW preterm infants were recruited from the neonatal intensive care unit. Inclusion criteria ...

Preterm born children without neurological impairments have been shown to present some visual-manual coordination deficits, more or less depending on their tonicity and the degree of prematurity. In this paper, we compare the development of tool use in 15-23-month-old preterm infants born after 33-36 weeks of gestation without neurological complications with that of full-term infants according ...