intraventricular hemorrhage (ivh) is an important cause of brain injury in premature neonates. current study tries to define associated risk factors of ivh in preterm neonates in aliasghar children hospital during 2008 to 2011. in this study, the risk factors have been evaluated in premature neonates with ivh, who had at least one brain sonography since their admission in nicu. a total of 63 pr...

background: studies have shown that mothers of premature newborns have lower physical and psychological quality of life compared to mothers of healthy neonates. therefore, applying a health promotion program for supporting them is necessary. aim: to determine the effectiveness of a health promotion program on the quality of the life of mothers of premature newborns. methods: in this quasi- expe...

The relationship between the concentration of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and the number of proliferating/apoptotic lymphocytes in peripheral blood of premature newborns of different gestation age and full-term newborns was determined. The experiments were performed using fluorescent spectrophotometry (with Hoechst 33342), flow cytometry, and microscopy (Feulgen staining of lymphocytes). It was deter...

BACKGROUND Ventilator treatment exposes newborns to both hyperoxemia and hyperventilation. It is not known how common hyperoxemia and hyperventilation are in neonatal intensive care units in Norway. The purpose of this study was to assess the quality of current care by studying deviations from the target range of charted oxygenation and ventilation parameters in newborns receiving mechanical ve...

conclusion the incidence of rop is relatively high in this region. risk factors for rop among very premature infants include hypoxia, severe hyperoxia, relatively low blood spo2, gestational age, birth weight, and apgar score. results the incidence of rop was 26.2%. significant differences between the rop and control groups were observed, these include; gestational age, sex, birth weight, apgar...

Objectives: Evaluation of the premature ruptured membranes incidence in a neonatology service, identification of microbial agents involved in producing infections with intrapartum onset and analysis of clinical and evolutive parameters involved in these cases. Material and method: Anamnestic, clinical and paraclinical data research, on all newborns resulted from premature ruptured membranes lab...

This paper reports a statistical and transversal study of growth in about 2400 surviving premature mice during neonatal development. The mice were removed by caesarean section on day 19 of pregnancy and resuscitated for 30 min; surviving mice as well as newborns delivered vaginally on day 20 (control mice) were raised from birth to day 20 by nursing mothers spontaneously delivered at the same t...