Introduction Idiopathic apnea of prematurity is a common disorder that requires therapeutic intervention to avoid potential morbidity in preterm infants who require neonatal intensive care. Severe, recurrent apneic episodes may lead to multiple investigations to rule out secondary disorders leading to apnea (see accompanying article in this issue). Although the incidence of neonatal apnea is in...

Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is characterized by multiple malformations as well as mental and developmental defects resulting from the absence of a distal segment of the short arm of chromosome 4. We experienced an extremely low birthweight infant with WHS. The male infant (birthweight 934 g) was born at 31 weeks' gestation by cesarean section due to intrauterine growth restriction and presen...

Retinopathy of prematurity, formerly known as a retrolental fibroplasia, is a leading cause of infantile blindness worldwide. Retinopathy of prematurity is caused by the failure of central retinal vessels to reach the retinal periphery, creating a nonperfused peripheral retina, resulting in retinal hypoxia, neovascularization, vitreous hemorrhage, vitreoretinal fibrosis, and loss of vision. We ...

Introduction: Retinopathy of prematurity is a bilateral dysfunction abnormal retinal vascularization in preterm infants, especially those with very low birth weight. The consequences range from normal vision to blindness. In recent years, the survival rate for extreme group patients has increased 8% 35% middle-income countries, as well its early identification damage and institution appropriate...

Risk factors for rickets of prematurity have not been re-examined since introduction of high mineral formula, particularly in ELBW infants. We analyzed the incidence and the risk factors of rickets in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants. As a retrospective case-control study from 2004 to 2008, risk factors were analyzed in 24 patients with rickets versus 31 patients without. The frequency...

Premature children are prone to severe viral respiratory infections in early life, but the age at which susceptibility peaks and disappears for each pathogen is unclear. Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed of the age distribution and clinical features of acute viral respiratory infections in full-term and premature children, aged zero to seven years. Results: The study comprised of ...

THE INCREASING INCIDENCE OF BLINDNESS DUE TO RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a major cause of potentially avoidable blindness in children in the middle-income countries of Latin America and Eastern Europe, and is becoming a public health problem in Asia. Indeed, the earlier estimate that there were 50 000–60 000 children worldwide who were blind from ROP is a mark...

OBJECTIVE To determine if maternal knowledge of prematurity is improved when verbal gestational age-specific counseling is supplemented with written gestational age-specific information. METHODS Prospective, randomized study of 60 pregnant participants assessed to be at risk for premature delivery between 23 and 34 weeks' gestation. Counseling in the control group consisted of gestational age...