Pub Date : 2017-09-05DOI: 10.4172/2167-0897.1000253
N. Lelong, F. Goffinet, B. Khoshnood
The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of the initial, published results of a large, prospective, population-based cohort study of children with structural congenital heart defects in France. We also discuss the current and future work to be done in this study
{"title":"Epidemiology of Congenital Heart Defects (CHD): Results from a Prospective,Population-Based Cohort Study (EPICARD)","authors":"N. Lelong, F. Goffinet, B. Khoshnood","doi":"10.4172/2167-0897.1000253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-0897.1000253","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of the initial, published results of a large, prospective, population-based cohort study of children with structural congenital heart defects in France. We also discuss the current and future work to be done in this study","PeriodicalId":73850,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neonatal biology","volume":" ","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2167-0897.1000253","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45704257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-07-10DOI: 10.4172/2167-0897.1000258
A. Zuppa, M. Cavani, R. Riccardi, P. Catenazzi, Alma Iafisco, G. Vento
Objective: In Italy there are a growing number of infants born to non-Italian mothers. The aim of this study is to analyze the physiological trend of bilirubin in newborns from South-east Asia and South America, compared to Italian newborns. Method: 60 newborns were enrolled: 20 Italian newborns, 20 South American newborns, 20 Southeast Asian newborns. All babies were born from normal pregnancies, delivered vaginally. There was no AB0 and Rh incompatibility. Daily total serum bilirubin (TSB) levels were the main outcome. Results: The bilirubin reached the peak on the third day of life in the Italian group (9.5 ± 2.7 mg/dL); on the fourth day of life in the Southeastern Asian group (9.9 ± 3.0 mg/dL) and on the fifth day of life in the South American group (10.9 ± 2.4 mg/dL). On the fifth, sixth and seventh day of life South American newborns had significantly higher TSB levels compared to the Italian group and to the Southeastern Asian group. Conclusion: The higher and delayed peak of bilirubin level in infants from Southeastern Asia and South America has epidemiological and health-care consequences. Dedicated nomograms should be processed to avoid the overtreatment and the discharge of newborns with a higher and later peak of bilirubin.
{"title":"Immigrant Newborn and Physiological Jaundice","authors":"A. Zuppa, M. Cavani, R. Riccardi, P. Catenazzi, Alma Iafisco, G. Vento","doi":"10.4172/2167-0897.1000258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-0897.1000258","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: In Italy there are a growing number of infants born to non-Italian mothers. The aim of this study is to analyze the physiological trend of bilirubin in newborns from South-east Asia and South America, compared to Italian newborns. Method: 60 newborns were enrolled: 20 Italian newborns, 20 South American newborns, 20 Southeast Asian newborns. All babies were born from normal pregnancies, delivered vaginally. There was no AB0 and Rh incompatibility. Daily total serum bilirubin (TSB) levels were the main outcome. Results: The bilirubin reached the peak on the third day of life in the Italian group (9.5 ± 2.7 mg/dL); on the fourth day of life in the Southeastern Asian group (9.9 ± 3.0 mg/dL) and on the fifth day of life in the South American group (10.9 ± 2.4 mg/dL). On the fifth, sixth and seventh day of life South American newborns had significantly higher TSB levels compared to the Italian group and to the Southeastern Asian group. Conclusion: The higher and delayed peak of bilirubin level in infants from Southeastern Asia and South America has epidemiological and health-care consequences. Dedicated nomograms should be processed to avoid the overtreatment and the discharge of newborns with a higher and later peak of bilirubin.","PeriodicalId":73850,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neonatal biology","volume":" ","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46118532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-05-22DOI: 10.4172/2167-0897.1000256
C. Williams, Pascale Akl, K. Blick
Respiratory distress syndrome causes morbidity and mortality of the newborn and is most often associated with premature birth. Laboratory testing can be helpful in establishing fetal lung maturity (FLM) status in situations when premature delivery may be necessary. In addition, the rising incidence of late-preterm births at >34 and =50 k/mm3.
{"title":"Assessment of Fetal Lung Maturity by Lamellar Body Count (LBC) in Comparison to the Fluorescence Polarization TDx FLM-II and L/S Ratio Methods","authors":"C. Williams, Pascale Akl, K. Blick","doi":"10.4172/2167-0897.1000256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-0897.1000256","url":null,"abstract":"Respiratory distress syndrome causes morbidity and mortality of the newborn and is most often associated with premature birth. Laboratory testing can be helpful in establishing fetal lung maturity (FLM) status in situations when premature delivery may be necessary. In addition, the rising incidence of late-preterm births at >34 and =50 k/mm3.","PeriodicalId":73850,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neonatal biology","volume":"2017 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2167-0897.1000256","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42930238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-29DOI: 10.4172/2167-0897.1000255
D. Sharma, S. Murki, T. Pratap
A male baby of 2.6 kg was born to Gravida2Para0Abortion1 mother through normal vaginal delivery at 33 weeks of gestation. Baby had normal Apgar score of 8/9/9 at one, five and ten minutes respectively. At birth baby was noticed to have large swelling in the sacrococcygeal region which was approximately having the size of 10*2 cm, with solid consistency and erythematous.
{"title":"Sacrococcygeal Teratoma - An Interesting Case and Infrequently seen Extension in Spinal Cord","authors":"D. Sharma, S. Murki, T. Pratap","doi":"10.4172/2167-0897.1000255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-0897.1000255","url":null,"abstract":"A male baby of 2.6 kg was born to Gravida2Para0Abortion1 mother through normal vaginal delivery at 33 weeks of gestation. Baby had normal Apgar score of 8/9/9 at one, five and ten minutes respectively. At birth baby was noticed to have large swelling in the sacrococcygeal region which was approximately having the size of 10*2 cm, with solid consistency and erythematous.","PeriodicalId":73850,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neonatal biology","volume":"2017 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48299171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-15DOI: 10.4172/2167-0897.1000254
M. Chung
Background: To investigate the incidence and risk factors of permanent hypothyroidism in premature infants diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism. Methods: A retrospective review of medical records of preterm infants was performed between March 2010 and December 2013. We included infants who were treated with thyroxine after being diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism and persistent hyperthyrotropinemia. Exclusion criteria included an infants who were lost to follow up or earlier discontinuation of thyroxine medication and had proven permanent hypothyroidism. We performed trial offtherapy at 36 months of age. Results: A total of 49 infants were eligible for trial off-therapy at age 3 years. Permanent and transient hypothyroidism was diagnosed in 12 and 37 infants, respectively. Persistent hypothyroidism was more frequent in the infants with high TSH and low FT4 levels at initial screening and high incidence in abnormalities in thyroid imaging work-ups and positive anti-thyroid antibodies. Moreover, the average thyroxine dosage during follow-up was significantly higher in infants with persistent hypothyroidism (p<0.05). Conclusion: Thyroid dysfunction is common in preterm infants, and nearly 80% of infants showed transient hypothyroidism. Therefore, if there is no other risk factor for permanent hypothyroidism, it is possible to consider an earlier trail off- therapy for preterm infants.
{"title":"Incidence and Risk Factor of Permanent Hypothyroidism in Preterm Infants","authors":"M. Chung","doi":"10.4172/2167-0897.1000254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-0897.1000254","url":null,"abstract":"Background: To investigate the incidence and risk factors of permanent hypothyroidism in premature infants diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism. Methods: A retrospective review of medical records of preterm infants was performed between March 2010 and December 2013. We included infants who were treated with thyroxine after being diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism and persistent hyperthyrotropinemia. Exclusion criteria included an infants who were lost to follow up or earlier discontinuation of thyroxine medication and had proven permanent hypothyroidism. We performed trial offtherapy at 36 months of age. Results: A total of 49 infants were eligible for trial off-therapy at age 3 years. Permanent and transient hypothyroidism was diagnosed in 12 and 37 infants, respectively. Persistent hypothyroidism was more frequent in the infants with high TSH and low FT4 levels at initial screening and high incidence in abnormalities in thyroid imaging work-ups and positive anti-thyroid antibodies. Moreover, the average thyroxine dosage during follow-up was significantly higher in infants with persistent hypothyroidism (p<0.05). Conclusion: Thyroid dysfunction is common in preterm infants, and nearly 80% of infants showed transient hypothyroidism. Therefore, if there is no other risk factor for permanent hypothyroidism, it is possible to consider an earlier trail off- therapy for preterm infants.","PeriodicalId":73850,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neonatal biology","volume":" ","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2167-0897.1000254","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48198508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-03-25DOI: 10.4172/2157-7552.1000252
D. Narasimhulu, S. Rastogi
Magnesium sulfate is widely administered to pregnant women at risk of preterm delivery for neuroprotection. However, there are no uniform guidelines in the dosing protocol for magnesium use. While antenatal magnesium therapy reduces the risk of cerebral palsy and gross motor dysfunction, adverse neonatal outcomes related to magnesium have been reported by some, and are the subject of considerable debate. There may be a therapeutic window within which the neuroprotective effects of magnesium sulfate are observed, with adverse neonatal outcomes at levels outside this window. Magnesium sulfate is one of few drugs currently administered in a “one dose fits all” regimen, without taking into account maternal or fetal parameters. While the mother is monitored and her dose is adjusted as needed, the fetus is not monitored (neither in utero nor in the NICU). Inability to monitor the fetal magnesium concentration while in utero may be countered by identifying variables that influence fetal serum magnesium levels and attempting to adjust the maternal dose accordingly. Further studies with larger sample sizes are needed to determine the optimal dose of maternal magnesium to provide fetal neuroprotection or maternal seizure prophylaxis with minimal neonatal adverse outcomes. It may be possible that monitoring neonatal serum magnesium concentrations and treating neonates with high levels may impact their outcomes and this is an option that needs to be explored.
{"title":"Reducing Adverse Effects of Antenatal Magnesium Therapy for Neuroprotection: Tailoring Treatment to the Intended Recipient","authors":"D. Narasimhulu, S. Rastogi","doi":"10.4172/2157-7552.1000252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2157-7552.1000252","url":null,"abstract":"Magnesium sulfate is widely administered to pregnant women at risk of preterm delivery for neuroprotection. However, there are no uniform guidelines in the dosing protocol for magnesium use. While antenatal magnesium therapy reduces the risk of cerebral palsy and gross motor dysfunction, adverse neonatal outcomes related to magnesium have been reported by some, and are the subject of considerable debate. There may be a therapeutic window within which the neuroprotective effects of magnesium sulfate are observed, with adverse neonatal outcomes at levels outside this window. Magnesium sulfate is one of few drugs currently administered in a “one dose fits all” regimen, without taking into account maternal or fetal parameters. While the mother is monitored and her dose is adjusted as needed, the fetus is not monitored (neither in utero nor in the NICU). Inability to monitor the fetal magnesium concentration while in utero may be countered by identifying variables that influence fetal serum magnesium levels and attempting to adjust the maternal dose accordingly. Further studies with larger sample sizes are needed to determine the optimal dose of maternal magnesium to provide fetal neuroprotection or maternal seizure prophylaxis with minimal neonatal adverse outcomes. It may be possible that monitoring neonatal serum magnesium concentrations and treating neonates with high levels may impact their outcomes and this is an option that needs to be explored.","PeriodicalId":73850,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neonatal biology","volume":" ","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43093035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-03-17DOI: 10.4172/2157-7552.1000251
D. Sharma, S. Murki, T. Pratap
A 21 day old male infant was admitted to NICU with swelling of right breast and fever from last 3 days. Baby had documented fever of 101oF at the time of admission. Baby was exclusively breast feed with no history of decrease acceptance of feed.
{"title":"Mastitis Neonatorum: An Interesting and Uncommon Condition Seen in Infants","authors":"D. Sharma, S. Murki, T. Pratap","doi":"10.4172/2157-7552.1000251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2157-7552.1000251","url":null,"abstract":"A 21 day old male infant was admitted to NICU with swelling of right breast and fever from last 3 days. Baby had documented fever of 101oF at the time of admission. Baby was exclusively breast feed with no history of decrease acceptance of feed.","PeriodicalId":73850,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neonatal biology","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2157-7552.1000251","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46210562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-02-28DOI: 10.4172/2167-0897.1000250
I. Markovic, Z. Milenkovic
Holoprocencephaly (HPE) is a developmental anomaly featured by a failure in differentiation and cleavage of the prosencephaly resulting in incomplete separation of the two hemispheres. In almost 80% of individuals it is accompanied by specific craniofacial anomalies. Both genetic and teratogen factors are responsible for the development of HPE [1]. Rare in absolute terms, HPE is the most common brain abnormality and is seen in 1 per 8000-16,000 live births [2-4]. In an analysis of 21 HPE epidemiologic articles Orioli IM and Castilla EE [5] found that the pregnancy outcomes had relevant impact on the incident rate of HPE, being lower than 1 per 10,000 in live and stillbirth and between 40-50 per 10000 in aborted embryos. In a large series of 4,157,224 births, the same authors observed 370 infants with suspected holoprosencephaly (0,009%) stressing that isolated HPE was homogeneous among the 11 sampled countries, increasing from 0.5/10,000 births to 1/10,000 births between 1967 and 2000% [6]. The early embryonic occurrence may be even higher with prevalence of 1:250 in embryos [7] but may not be detected due to most fetuses aborting in early gestation [2]. In our small series of 4000 MRI explorations in children of different ages (from newborns to 15 years old) only three cases harboring HPE were diagnosed, accounting for almost 0.05%. Even though, the holoprosencephaly has been divided into three categories (alobar, semilobar and lobar) and a clear distinction between them does not exist. However, another two categories have been added to the previous one: the middle interhemispheric fusion variant (MIHF/MIHV or syntelencephaly [8] and a septopreoptic type [9]. Alobar HPE is a rare and the most severe congenital malformation, usually diagnosed by prenatal ultrasound, rarely postnattally by CT or MRI, because the infant is most often stillborn. There is no separation of cerebral hemisphere with only one large ventricle and failure of transverse cleavage into diencephalon and telencephalon. Semilobar HPE, less dysmorphic then alobar (HPE), has both the frontal and parietal lobes completely fused and interhemispheric fissure exist posteriorly. The concomitant anomalies might be microcephaly, macrocephaly, motor abnormalities such as choreoathetosis or lower extremity spasticity.
{"title":"Incidence and Magnetic Resonance Imaging","authors":"I. Markovic, Z. Milenkovic","doi":"10.4172/2167-0897.1000250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-0897.1000250","url":null,"abstract":"Holoprocencephaly (HPE) is a developmental anomaly featured by a failure in differentiation and cleavage of the prosencephaly resulting in incomplete separation of the two hemispheres. In almost 80% of individuals it is accompanied by specific craniofacial anomalies. Both genetic and teratogen factors are responsible for the development of HPE [1]. Rare in absolute terms, HPE is the most common brain abnormality and is seen in 1 per 8000-16,000 live births [2-4]. In an analysis of 21 HPE epidemiologic articles Orioli IM and Castilla EE [5] found that the pregnancy outcomes had relevant impact on the incident rate of HPE, being lower than 1 per 10,000 in live and stillbirth and between 40-50 per 10000 in aborted embryos. In a large series of 4,157,224 births, the same authors observed 370 infants with suspected holoprosencephaly (0,009%) stressing that isolated HPE was homogeneous among the 11 sampled countries, increasing from 0.5/10,000 births to 1/10,000 births between 1967 and 2000% [6]. The early embryonic occurrence may be even higher with prevalence of 1:250 in embryos [7] but may not be detected due to most fetuses aborting in early gestation [2]. In our small series of 4000 MRI explorations in children of different ages (from newborns to 15 years old) only three cases harboring HPE were diagnosed, accounting for almost 0.05%. Even though, the holoprosencephaly has been divided into three categories (alobar, semilobar and lobar) and a clear distinction between them does not exist. However, another two categories have been added to the previous one: the middle interhemispheric fusion variant (MIHF/MIHV or syntelencephaly [8] and a septopreoptic type [9]. Alobar HPE is a rare and the most severe congenital malformation, usually diagnosed by prenatal ultrasound, rarely postnattally by CT or MRI, because the infant is most often stillborn. There is no separation of cerebral hemisphere with only one large ventricle and failure of transverse cleavage into diencephalon and telencephalon. Semilobar HPE, less dysmorphic then alobar (HPE), has both the frontal and parietal lobes completely fused and interhemispheric fissure exist posteriorly. The concomitant anomalies might be microcephaly, macrocephaly, motor abnormalities such as choreoathetosis or lower extremity spasticity.","PeriodicalId":73850,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neonatal biology","volume":"6 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44267741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-02-11DOI: 10.4172/2167-0897.1000249
R. Achour, Sarra Amari, N. B. Jamaa, I. Ksibi, S. Kacem, K. Néji
Arthrogryposis is a syndrome that can be, seen in different diseases that have in common the existence of multiple joint stiffness. Once the diagnosis poses, the prognosis will depend on the severity of the clinical presentation and its precocity of installation. Management depends on the etiology, which makes the treatment different from one case to another. In cases of suspected Arthrogryposis, practitioners should have attention to amniotic fluid quantity, fetal motricity, swallowing movements and research an amyotrophy or abnormalities of the extremities. We report a particular case of antenatal diagnosis of Arthrogryposis with excess amniotic fluid.
{"title":"Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenital: Case Report","authors":"R. Achour, Sarra Amari, N. B. Jamaa, I. Ksibi, S. Kacem, K. Néji","doi":"10.4172/2167-0897.1000249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-0897.1000249","url":null,"abstract":"Arthrogryposis is a syndrome that can be, seen in different diseases that have in common the existence of multiple joint stiffness. Once the diagnosis poses, the prognosis will depend on the severity of the clinical presentation and its precocity of installation. Management depends on the etiology, which makes the treatment different from one case to another. In cases of suspected Arthrogryposis, practitioners should have attention to amniotic fluid quantity, fetal motricity, swallowing movements and research an amyotrophy or abnormalities of the extremities. We report a particular case of antenatal diagnosis of Arthrogryposis with excess amniotic fluid.","PeriodicalId":73850,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neonatal biology","volume":" ","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48268177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-02-05DOI: 10.4172/2167-0897.1000248
A. Gökalp, A. Günlemez, D. Oğuz
This paper provides a brief overview of benefits of delayed cord clamping according to the early clamping after birth. Introduction: Optimal timing of cord clamping has long been a controversial issue. Recently many studies have shown that delayed cord clamping leads to remarkable decreases in risks of morbidity such as intraventricular haemorrhage, necrotising enterocolitis, hypoperfusion, need for transfusion and optimal haemoglobin haematocrit levels in preterm infants. Conclusion: Delayed clamping of the umbilical cord will ensure more positive outcomes in preterm neonates.
{"title":"Umbilical Cord Clamping Time in Premature Infants","authors":"A. Gökalp, A. Günlemez, D. Oğuz","doi":"10.4172/2167-0897.1000248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-0897.1000248","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a brief overview of benefits of delayed cord clamping according to the early clamping after birth. Introduction: Optimal timing of cord clamping has long been a controversial issue. Recently many studies have shown that delayed cord clamping leads to remarkable decreases in risks of morbidity such as intraventricular haemorrhage, necrotising enterocolitis, hypoperfusion, need for transfusion and optimal haemoglobin haematocrit levels in preterm infants. Conclusion: Delayed clamping of the umbilical cord will ensure more positive outcomes in preterm neonates.","PeriodicalId":73850,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neonatal biology","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43562181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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