purpose: to determine the prevalence and risk factors for retinopathy of prematurity (rop) in high risk premature infants admitted to nicu wards in isfahan from 2003 to 2008. methods: in this retrospective case series, 604 records of high risk infants were reviewed in terms of gestational age, birth weight, oxygen supplementation, delivery method, history of consanguineous marriage, single or m...

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Five-day-old male neonate born to non-consanguineous parents by normal vaginal delivery was presented with deformity of lip, face and eyelid on the right side, and cyanosis. The cyanosis had improved soon after endotracheal intubation. Examination revealed deformity of upper lip, upper jaw and lower eyelid of right eye; this type of craniofacial cleft is called as Tessier type 3 (Fig. 1). There...

AIM There are 2.7 million neonatal deaths annually, 75% of which occur in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Effective treatment of hypoxaemia through tailored oxygen therapy could reduce neonatal mortality and prevent oxygen toxicity. METHODS We undertook a two-part prospective study of neonates admitted to a neonatal unit in Nairobi, Kenya, between January and December 2015. We determined t...

The microbiological control efficiency of two class 100 laminar down-flow hoods was determined by using aerosols of Bacillus subtilis var. niger spores. The first unit challenged utilized a slanted eyelid to partially enclose the front work opening. This hood showed nearly perfect control of ambient organisms in the work area. It also gave a 10(6) or greater drop in the number of organisms pass...

RATIONALE Our core hypothesis is that growth factors that have dysregulated expression during experimental neonatal lung injury are likely to be involved in normal postnatal lung growth and alveologenesis. OBJECTIVES To determine if hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is upregulated in neonatal lung injury and is essential for postnatal alveologenesis. METHODS A neonatal lung injury, in which th...

Hypoxia is one of the major causes of damage to the fetal and neonatal brain and cardiac functions. In earlier studies, we have reported the brain damage caused by hypoxia and resuscitation with oxygen and epinephrine and have found that glucose treatment to hypoxic rats and hypoxic rats treated with oxygen shows a reversal of brain damage. The neonatal rats are shown to be deficient in free ra...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) is increasingly used in a number of areas of medical practice. It is a unique intervention whose method of action is not well understood. Clinicians may request its use for their patients, but often will not fully understand its mechanisms. It is hoped that this review and discussion of HBO and the literature surrounding its use may be useful to clinicians who ar...