Objective: To compare the frequencies of newborn diseases in those newborns classified according to a weight/length rate and those classified by the adequacy weight for gestational age. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study by record assessment was carried out enclosing all the live newborns at Hospital Geral do Grajaú, from September to December, 2009 (n =577) classified according to ...

AIM To investigate risk factors for brachial plexus palsy in newborns. We analyzed 45 544 live-born children, born over a nine-year period from January 1, 1996 to December 31, 2004. METHODS The analysis was retrospective and based on the medical documentation of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Clinic for Neurology, and Clinic for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Universit...

BACKGROUND Sucrose is widely used to manage procedural pain in term newborns despite a lack of evidence of its effectiveness for different procedures and infant populations. Our objectives were to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of sucrose in newborns undergoing various medical procedures within 2 days of birth. METHODS We performed a double-blind, randomized controlled trial. We includ...

Introduction: The findings of cephalometry studies are widely applied in medical and engineering fields. Cephalometry measurements are affected by genetics‚ age‚ gender‚ and social‚ economic and geographic factors.This study assesses cephalometry of the neurocranium in male newborns in Kermanshah,Iran by an anthropometry method to confirm or reject the theory of brachycephalization (i.e., ...

Neural tube defect (NTD) is a multi-factorial disorder in which nutritional, genetic and environmental factors are involved. Among the nutritional factors, low level of serum zinc has been reported from different parts of the world. This hospital-based case-control study was conducted with the objective of finding the relationship between serum zinc level in newborns and their mothers and NTDs ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between maternal socioeconomic status and the risk of encephalopathy in full-term newborns. DESIGN Population-based case-control study. SETTING Washington State births from 1994 through 2002 recorded in the linked Washington State Birth Registry and Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System. PARTICIPANTS Cases (n = 1060) were singleton full-...

BACKGROUND IgG antibodies from mothers adequately treated for syphilis can cross the placenta and appear in the sera of healthy newborns without infection. In such infants, a false diagnosis of congenital syphilis is often made. We have designed a retrospective survey to determine the time of seroreversion of the serological tests for syphilis (STS) in uninfected newborns born to mothers who we...

We investigated the effect of high VT ventilation on adult and newborn rats by examining pulmonary injury and cytokine messenger RNA (mRNA). On the basis of compliance, edema formation, and histology, ventilation with 25 ml.kg(-1) was more injurious to adult rats than newborns. Ventilation with 40 ml kg(-1) minimally affected compliance in newborns but caused death in adults. Ventilation of adu...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess whether there was a difference in the pain-perception levels of newborns born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy and newborns born to mothers who were not exposed to active or passive smoking during pregnancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 60 newborns born by normal spontaneous vaginal birth between June 2013 and June 2014 were included in the stud...

Anthropometric measurements, such as craniofacial forms especially in the first days after birth are important for the assessment of neonatal health status and results obtained from such measurements are used in pediatrics, orofacial surgery and diagnostic comprehension between patient and normal populations. There is no published literature about the types of head and face shapes in the Kanuri...