Background Neonatal sepsis due to intestinal bacterial translocation is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Understanding microbial colonisation of the gut in prematurity may predict risk of ...

a Directorate of Neonatology South Cleveland Hospital Middlesbrough TS4 3BW, b Department of Paediatric Cardiology Freeman Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne Dr J P Wyllie. AIM To determine the prevalence ...

Intraventricular haemorrhage and posthaemorrhagic ventricular dilatation remain an important challenge in the management of prematurity and are associated with significant permanent morbidity.

AIM To determine whether those most easily reviewed in a population prevalence study differ from those followed up only with difficulty. METHODS All babies born before 32 weeks of gestation in the ...

AIM To determine whether vitamin K1, which is routinely administered to neonates, could act as an exogenous oxidising agent and be partly responsible for haemolysis in glucose-6-phosphat-dehydrogenase ...

Objectives With increasing advances in neonatal transport, a focused research strategy is required to increase the evidence base towards providing optimal care. We aimed to identify the most important ...

Objectives To determine the incidence of and risk factors for neonatal unit admission, intrapartum stillbirth or neonatal death without admission, and describe outcomes, in babies born in an alongside ...

AIM To assess the role of etamsylate[*][1] in reducing the risk of haemorrhagic brain damage and its consequences. DESIGN Follow up of babies recruited into a randomised controlled trial. METHODS A ...

Objective The objective is to evaluate changes in survival to discharge of liveborn infants less than 32 weeks’ gestational age (GA) in France, where the latest available data on very preterm survival ...

Objective We performed a randomised trial in very preterm, small for gestational age (SGA) babies to determine if prophylaxis with granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) improves ...

Department of Pediatrics, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, New York, USA Correspondence to Richard A Polin, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, ...

Neonatal Unit, Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK Background: Little is known about exposure of preterm infants to excipients during routine clinical ...