THIS short book is one of a series of three volumes summarizing the principles of obstetrics, gynaecology and neonatal medicine. It is essentially a book of lists written by two doctors: "a medical adviser to a major pharmaceutical company," and "a physiological laboratory worker" respectively. The authors and their colleagues are said to have conceived this book during their 'shop-floor' exper...

purpose: the purpose of this study is to model cryptosporidiosis in laboratory animals. the parasites were inoculated into animalsand thenmultiplied. the process of proliferation was compared to controlcryptosporidiosis in humans. materials and methods: twenty-five laboratory mice (4-7 days of age) and twenty-five laboratory rats (5 days of age) were assigned to the category i while the categor...

Neonatal alloimmune neutropenia (NAN) is a disease that can cause severe and prolonged neutropenia in neonates. However, no report is available on the incidence of granulocyte antibody in neonates, the target antigen of this antibody, and the estimated incidence of NAN in Korea. Among a total of 856 neonates admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) over a five year period, a total of 1...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between gestational weight gain and adverse neonatal outcomes among infants born at term (37 weeks or more). METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of 20,465 nondiabetic, term, singleton births. We performed univariable and multivariable analyses of the associations between gestational weight gain and neonatal outcomes. We categorized gestational w...

background supraventricular tachycardia (svt) is the most frequent arrhythmia requiring a medical treatment in neonates. objectives the aim of our study was to evaluate and manage neonatal supraventricular tachycardia. methods this study was performed on 22 newborns that were diagnosed with svt at two neonatal intensive care units (nicu) in south west of iran from october 2012 to october 2015. ...

Background: The likelihood of newborns acquiring severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS- CoV-2) from infected mothers has raised concerns among families and clinicians worldwide. disease seems to be mild in children and, date; there are few reports neonatal population. aim the study was Prevalence Neonatal SARS-CoV-2 infection a tertiary care teaching hospital. objective correlat...