background and objective: thyroid function problems are often present with prematurity disorders. thyroid hormones regulate growth and distinguish body organs; especially they affect central nervous system and metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, and vitamins. thus, these hormones should be evaluated. the present study aims to determine the mean level of thyroid hormones among premature infants...

background and objectives: the diagnosis of pregnancy associated adnexal masses is rising due to routine utilization of sonography in prenatal care. the purpose of this study was to describe pregnancy associated adnexal masses over a period of 10 years. patients and methods: a retrospective study was reviewed hospital records of all pregnant women with adnexal mass that underwent surgical resec...

SUMMARY Determination of gestational age have several usages in obstetrics and gynecology. The relation between Biparietal Diameter and gestational age has determined in this research using real time Sonography. 904 Iranian pregnant women between 12-40 weeks of gestation with accuratic last menstrual period and without the history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, renal disease and Fetal an...

Fourteen newborn babies of different gestational ages (33 to 40 weeks) but similar postnatal age (four to 19 days) were studied during bottle-feeding using real-time ultrasonography, combined with respiratory monitoring. Previously undescribed tongue movements and graded changes in the temporal relationships between tongue movements, swallowing and breathing were observed among infants of diffe...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To investigate the long-term efficacy and safety of two doses (33 and 67 μg/kg/day) of growth hormone (GH) in short Japanese children born small for gestational age (SGA). METHODS 96 children born SGA (age 3 to <8 years) were randomized to GH at 33 or 67 μg/kg/day for 104 weeks, or to an untreated control (UC) group for 52 weeks. After 52 weeks, the UC group was randomized to ...

PURPOSE to describe the patterns of the gastric myoelectrical activity, pre-and postprandially, in clinically stable neonates of different gestational ages, during their first two weeks of life by means of Electrogastrography. PATIENTS AND METHODS Electrogastrography was recorded in forty-five clinically stable neonates of different gestational ages (group I: 15 neonates of > 37 weeks, group ...

SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS I967 during late foetal development and the amount of folate in the liver. However, the mean birth weight of Asians is less than that of English babies born in Bradford and at all gestational ages the individual birth weights of Asians were nearly always relatively low; there was a relatively high proportion of Asian babies in which the amount of iron in the liver was smal...

Progenitor cells in the early developing cerebral cortex produce neurons destined for discrete functional areas in response to specific inductive signals. Using lineage analysis, we show that cortical progenitor cells at different fetal ages retain the memory of an area-specific inductive signal received in vivo, even though they may pass through as many as two cell cycles in the absence of the...

Growth hormone [GH] is licensed for use in children born small for gestational age (SGA) who fail to catch-up. We retrospectively compared the response of twenty children born SGA (who satisfied the auxological criteria) to growth hormone (Group I) versus randomly selected age and sex matched controls from a group of SGA children with growth related complaints, not treated with GH (Group II). A...