Perinatal mortality in very preterm infants has decreased by up to 50% during the last decades. Studies of changes of long-term outcome are inconclusive. We studied the visual, auditory, neuromotor, cognitive and behavioural development of two geographically defined populations of very preterm, singleton infants, born in 1983 and in 1993, and analysed the relationship between perinatal risk fac...

Prematurity and low birth weight are major factors associated with neonatal morbidity and mortality, and their incidence is not decreasing despite an annual decrease in the total number of live births in Korea. The objective of this study was to establish a strategy to reduce neonatal mortality by analyzing the clinical characteristics of high-risk infant births along with their mortality and c...

BACKGROUND There are conflicting results in the literature on the impact of chorioamnionitis on neonatal respiratory morbidities. However, most studies are based on small clinical samples and fail to account for the competing risk of perinatal death. This study aimed to determine whether chorioamnionitis affects the incidence of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and bronchopulmonary dysplasia...

Compared to singletons, multiple births are associated with a substantially-higher risk of maternal and perinatal mortality worldwide. However, little evidence exists on the perinatal profile and risk of neurodevelopmental disabilities among the survivors, especially in developing countries. This cross-sectional study, therefore, set out to determine the adverse perinatal outcomes that are pote...

The article discusses the historical features of clinical formation diagnostic criteria Silverman-Andersen scale in assessment respiratory distress syndrome preterm infants. epidemiology and picture newborn (infantile syndrome,) is given. international practical experience application rating neonatology neonatal resuscitation presented. Modern aspects further improvement primary and/or repeated...

Background. Ninety-percent of perinatal hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection results in chronic HBV which usually is asymptomatic, but carries a 25% risk of premature death from progressive liver injury, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. In 1990, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded the Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention Program (PHBPP) to accelerate elimination of perinatal HBV tr...

BACKGROUND Whether gestational age per se increases perinatal mortality in post-term pregnancy is unclear. We aimed at assessing gestational week specific perinatal mortality in small-for-gestational-age (SGA) and non-SGA term and post-term gestations, and specifically to evaluate whether the relation between post-term gestation and perinatal mortality differed before and after ultrasound was i...

background and aims: this is a pilot study investigated the prevalence of hearing impairment and the impact of the known risk factors for hearing loss on infants at risk born in kuwait. methods: two hundred infants with risk of hearing impairment who met the joint committee on infants hearing (1990) criteria were screened. all newborns were included in this study if they had hospital stay for m...

Review of perinatal statistics at Denver General Hospital over the past decade shows (1) that perinatal mortality has dropped about 50% but (2) that the incidence of infants born weighing less than 2500 grams is still 14% which is far too high. 1971 data indicate that (1) a substantial number of mothers delivering truly premature or small-for-gestational-age infants are %ormal” and without appa...

A survey was carried out of all infants born in Southampton and South-west Hampshire Health District in 1975 to assess the incidence and cause of handicapping conditions at age 2-3 years. Twenty-four infants were identified with major handicap. A prenatal cause was identified in 15 cases, a perinatal cause in 5 cases, and a postnatal cause in 2 cases. No cause was identified in 2 cases. The inc...