OBJECTIVE To investigate the predictive value of serum C3 and C4 complement component levels in relation to pregnancy outcome in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective study of 47 pregnancies associated with APS was performed. Pregnancy outcome was analyzed in terms of: fetal loss, preterm delivery (≤34 gestational weeks), fetal intrauterine growth ...

Objective: To analyze the fetal and perinatal determinants of neonatal mortality. Methodology: This was a pilot National Prospective cohort-study done from the data source of Qatar Perinatal Registry (Q-Peri-Reg). National data on total deliveries, live births and neonatal mortality was ascertained from Qatar’s national perinatal registry for the study period (1st January to 30th June 2011). Da...

Background: Multiple pregnancies are responsible for the increased risk of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to compare the perinatal outcome between multiple and singleton pregnancies. Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study. A sample of 50 multiple birth neonates- born in Fatemieh Hospital of Hamadan, Iran in 2015- was selected using simple r...

Introduction Minerals and trace elements such as zinc and copper have significant influence on development and growth of the fetus and newborn. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between low birth weight and maternal and neonatal zinc, copper levels. Materials and Methods This case – control study   was done from September 2006 to Sep 2007 consisted of 65 infants with b...

backgroundeach year about 32.4 million of children are born with low birth weight, which is below the 10th percentile for their gestational ages; moreover, about fifteen million of them are premature. actually, about 60% of neonatal deaths occur in low birth weight neonates related to their prematurity. this study aimed to determine the neonatal death rate and the most common causes of the hosp...

BACKGROUND Hepatoblastoma is a malignancy of young children. Low birth weight is associated with significantly increased risk of hepatoblastoma and neonatal medical exposures are hypothesized as contributors. This study represents the largest case-control study of hepatoblastoma to date and aimed to define the role of neonatal exposures in hepatoblastoma risk among low birth weight children. ...

anthropometric parameters are an important indicator of health and nutritional status comprising the whole span of mans life. however, they are not of the same degree of simplicity and sensitivity in assessing the public health status. during recent decades many studies have attempted to examine the relationships of these measurements in order to present simple alternatives for similar purposes...

BackgroundResistin is reported as an antagonistic hormone of insulin and in the literature. Nowadays, importance of resistin is being more highlighted in the metabolism of mother and fetus during pregnancy. This study aimed to assess the level of resistin in the umbilical cord and blood sugar at birth and evaluate the association of resistin and neonatal birth weight.Materials and MethodsThis c...

AIM To assess the relative effect of birth weight and gestational age on retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) using preterm twin pairs discordant for birth weigh in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit in China. METHODS Fifty-six discordant twin pairs of 112 preterm infants were retrospectively analyzed. The twin pairs were divided into two subgroups based on birth weight in each pair. The occ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate factors associated with neonatal death within 24 hours after birth in very low birth weight preterm newborns. METHODS Prospective cohort of live births with gestational age of 23(0/7)-31(6/7) weeks, birth weight of 500-1499g without malformations, in 19 public maternity hospitals in nine capitals in northeastern Brazil from July to December 2007. The 19 hospitals were as...