AIM To identify incidence of school and behaviour problems at age 7 years in children born between 32 and 35 weeks gestation, and investigate perinatal risk factors. METHOD The study population ...

Correspondence to: Dr Roberts, Department of Haematology, Hammersmith Campus, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK; irene.roberts{at}ic.ac.uk Neonatal thrombocytopenia is a common ...

1 Department of Neonatology, University Medical Centre Utrecht/Wilhelmina Children's Hospital and Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Paediatric Psychology, University Medical ...

BACKGROUND Ventricular outputs cannot be used to assess systemic blood flow in preterm infants because they are confounded by shunts through the ductus arteriosus and atrial septum. However, flow ...

2 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK Objective: To investigate the association of breast feeding with ...

Correspondence to Dr Martin Ward Platt, Newcastle Neonatal Service, Ward 35, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK; m.p.ward ...

Background: The establishment of a balanced intestinal microflora which may protect against infection is desirable for the preterm infant. Objective: To investigate the effect of a preterm formula ...

Objective To describe the use and nationwide variation of red blood cell (RBC) transfusions in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) following the introduction of the revised national transfusion ...

Pain Study Group and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Padova, Italy Aim—To evaluate the effects of low dose fentanyl infusion analgesia on behavioural and ...

Erasmus Darwin was a great philosopher, scientist, inventor, poet, and physician. His creative intellect has been compared with that of Leonardo da Vinci. This brief article draws attention to two ...

Most neonates with clinically significant pulmonary hypertension (PH) will have either persistent PH of the newborn (PPHN) or bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Cyanotic congenital heart disease must be ...

OBJECTIVES To document the incidence, timing, degree, and associations of systemic hypoperfusion in the preterm infant and to explore the temporal relation between low systemic blood flow and the ...