[PDF] Top 20 Respiratory morbidity in very preterm and very low birth weight infants - the first two years of life

... Mariana Coutinho Malheiros Ferreira Respiratory morbidity in very preterm and very low birth weight infants - the first two years of life.. março, 2014.1[r] ... See full document

... for the diagnosis of neonatal sepsis, blood cultures are known for their low sensitivity in VLBW infants ...Despite the relative infrequency of an early positive blood ... See full document

... Incidence of very preterm birth (VPT) in France increased between 1998 and 2003 but stabilized in 2010 at 2% of births ...advances in neonatal care medicine ... See full document

... enzymes low platelet count), preterm premature rupture of membranes >12 hours; GA in completed weeks; small for gestational age (SGA) defined as a birth weight for GA≤10th ... See full document

... many years endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation have been the standard care for very low birth weight infants but, in the last decade, ... See full document

... cause of nosocomial ...increase the burden of late onset ...use of other invasive interventions, such as mechanical ventilation and parenteral nutrition, skin sores, prolonged ... See full document

... BMF and exclusive versus partial BMF at discharge were analysed in two ...GA in days (continuous variable). Model two additionally adjusted for other potential confounders of ... See full document

... (33.0%) infants died during their NICU stay. Of these infants ...SBI and/or NEC. None of them developed BPD or ROP because of death before these diagnoses could be ...Development ... See full document

... Understanding the events that increase the likelihood of RBC transfusions can contribute to the rational use of blood products in very low birth ... See full document

... evaluated the outcome data of sporadic sepsis patients in a NICU compared to sepsis patients in clusters and found no ...restricted the analysis to gram-negative sepsis only, we ... See full document

... The infants included in this study, although constituting a group at high risk for the events analyzed herein, as they had on average, less than 28 weeks of gestational age and ... See full document

... study, infants with a birth weight range of 750-1000 g, 1001-1250 g and 1251- 1500 g (although the samples for the first two categories were quite small) ... See full document

... analyzing the prevalence of severe ROP from the initial ophthalmologic examination up to the 45th week of postmenstrual age and the WG proportion from birth up to 6 ... See full document

... number of hypoglycemic epi- sodes than repeated capillary blood glucose testing, as demonstrated in the IGM-group with the use of a ...detected in 22 neonates (51%) from both ... See full document

... In the present study, the premature group was recruited among children born prematurely with a birth weight of less than 1500 g and the control group was composed ... See full document

... pre- and postnatally, particularly towards the end of pregnancy and in the first months of life, may affect alveolar development with possible long-term ... See full document

... number of strengths and limitations. The main strengths include the longitudinal measurements over 4 weeks using a large sample size with the same ...used the same equipment ... See full document

... weeks of gestation, they were used in only 49% of cases in this ...exceed the 22% use of antenatal corticosteroids obtained from a population-based cohort of 774 VLBW ... See full document

... tely two thirds of patients ...dose of natural surfactant (Survanta), 28 (27.4%) of them with two or more ...half of patients were conventionally ventilated longer than 3 days, ... See full document

... from birth to 2 years to record maternally reported antibiotic exposures and measure anthropometry ...estimated the associations between antibiotic exposure before 6 months of age ... See full document