OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate early markers of risk for neurobehavioral compromise in survivors with congenital heart disease (CHD). METHODS Pregnant women in whom a fetal CHD had been diagnosed before 24 weeks' gestational age (GA) were enrolled in this prospective pilot study for serial Doppler ultrasound assessment of the fetal middle cerebral artery (MCA) and umb...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship of scores on the test of infant motor performance (TIMP), with those on the Bayley scales of infant development (BSID), and to investigate the sensitivity and specificity of TIMP and the optimal cut-off value of TIMP scores using ROC analysis. METHOD Seventy-six preterm and term infants were recruited from neonatal intensive care units. Subjects were teste...

OBJECTIVES Limited evidence is available regarding the association between prenatal job strain and infant neurodevelopment. Most studies used stress indicators other than job strain to explain the relationship between prenatal maternal stress and child development. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between maternal job strain during pregnancy and neurodevelopment in...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the developmental effects of clozapine and other atypical antipsychotics on infants who were exposed to as fetus. METHOD The developmental progress of 33 infants who were exposed to clozapine as fetus was compared to 30 infants who were exposed to risperidone, olanzapine or quetiapine as fetus by assessing Apgar scoring, birth weight at birth, body weight, height, and...

Maternal nutrition is important for fetal development, but its impact on the functional outcome of infants is still unclear. The present study investigated the effects of vitamin A and Fe supplementation during gestation on infant mental and psychomotor development. Mothers of infants from five villages in Indonesia were randomly assigned to supervised, double-blind supplementation once per wee...

Infants who have been hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) may present with a multitude of challenges that put them at risk for delayed development. Early Intervention and specialized NICU follow up clinics are in place to help identify NICU graduates’ need for therapy services. Well-established, standardized assessments, such as the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Developm...

AMAÇ: Hipoksik iskemik ensefalopati (HİE); anormal bilinç durumu, nöbetler, çoklu organ yetmezliği ile seyredebilen klinik bir durumdur. Bu retrospektif çalışma terapötik hipotermi (TH) uygulanan HİE tanılı yenidoğanların kord kan gazı pH değeri ve kardiyak belirteçleri difüzyon Manyetik rezonans görüntüleme (MRG), nörolojik muayeneleri gelişimsel sonuçlarının değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır.&#...

The Molteno Adapted Scale (MAS) is a developmental screening tool for children up to five years of age, used by medical practitioners in the Western Cape, South Africa. It generates subquotients language, personal and social, fine gross motor domains. general quotient average all four subquotients, with score < 85 indicating risk global delay. authors aimed determine concurrent validity MAS,...

BACKGROUND In Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa at large, there has been heavy reliance on the "Caucasian data" in the developmental assessment of children. Hence, this study set out to establish normative data for psychomotor development on Nigerian children. STUDY DESIGN One hundred and twenty eight children distributed equally to eight different integrative age groups between 8 weeks and 30 m...