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 ...

AIM To determine how early diagnosis of cystic fibrosis, using neonatal screening, affects long term clinical outcome. METHODS Fifty seven children with cystic fibrosis born before neonatal screening ...

1 Department of Paediatrics, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China 2 University Children's Hospital, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany Correspondence to Christian P Speer, ...

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 ...

3 Department of Woman and Child Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 4 Department of Medical Physics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 5 Department of Pediatric ...

a Department of Paediatrics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, b Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Professor P C Ng, Department of ...

Pneumonia contributes to between 750 000 and 1.2 million neonatal deaths and an unknown number of stillbirths each year world wide. The aetiology depends on time of onset. Gram negative bacilli ...

Background Defecation problems occur frequently in infants. A clearer insight into the normal defecation pattern is required to gain a better understanding of abnormal defecation. Aim To describe the ...

AIMS To identify perinatal risk factors for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) and define the risk for each factor. METHODS In this case control study, using logistic regression analysis, all ...

Background High feed osmolality (or osmolarity) is often suggested to be linked with adverse gastrointestinal events in preterm infants. Aim To systematically review the literature on milk feed ...

a Department of Paediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University Hospital of Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, B 2650 Edegem, Antwerp, Belgium, b Department of Biomedical Physics Dr Bart Van Overmeire. AIM ...

1 Department of Paediatric Surgery, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK 2 Department of Neonatal Medicine and Surgery, Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton, UK Meconium obstruction of ...