abstract background: very low birth weight infants ( <1500 g) frequently require blood transfusions because of repeated blood sampling accompanied by anemia of prematurity. methods: in an attempt to identify the effect of human recombinant erythropoietin to decrease the requirement for blood transfusions, erythropoietin was administered to 24 pre term infants less than 1500 g prospectively from...

pulmonary haemorrhage (pH) in a sick neonate is a life-threatening complication and is often associated with a high mortality. it is now often seen in extreme preterm and very low birth weight infants who are growth restricted and have received surfactant with significant respiratory distress syndrome. the mainstay of treatment includes ventilation and vigorous resuscitation of a shocked and cr...

Parenteral nutrition (PN) has become an integral part of clinical management of very low birth weight premature neonates. Traditionally different components of PN are prescribed individually considering requirements of an individual neonate (IPN). More recently, standardised PN formulations (SPN) for preterm neonates have been assessed and may have advantages including better provision of nutri...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether adolescents who were born extremely preterm (<26 weeks gestation), very preterm (<32 weeks gestation), or with very low birth weight (<1500 g) are more often bullied, and whether this contributes to higher emotional problem scores. STUDY DESIGN We used 2 whole population samples: the German Bavarian Longitudinal Study (BLS) (287 very preterm/very low birth wei...