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Duration of Initial Empirical Antibiotic Therapy and Outcomes in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

open access: yesPediatrics, 2019
Prolonged antibiotic use in the first week of life among VLBW infants and without culture-proven sepsis is associated with adverse neonatal outcomes.
J. Ting   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Human Milk Feeding and Morbidity in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

open access: yesNutrients, 2018
This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesised the post-1990 literature examining the effect of human milk on morbidity, specifically necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), late onset sepsis (LOS), retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), bronchopulmonary ...
Jacqueline Miller   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gut microbiota of the very-low-birth-weight infant

open access: yesPediatric Research, 2014
The microbiome, of which the bacterial component alone (microbiota), is estimated to include 10 times more cells than human cells of the body, blooms immediately after birth and evolves in composition and complexity throughout childhood.
S. Unger   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Real-World Outcomes of Treprostinil Treatment in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants with Pulmonary Hypertension: A Nationwide Cohort Study [PDF]

open access: yesNeonatal Medicine
Purpose Treprostinil is used off-label for refractory pulmonary hypertension (PH) in very-low-birth-weight infants (VLBWI); however, real-world outcome data remain scarce.
Jieun Jeong   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family-Centered Care Improves Clinical Outcomes of Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants: A Quasi-Experimental Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Pediatrics, 2019
Background: Survival of very-low-birth-weight infants is improving in neonatology and family-centered-care might contribute to premature infants' clinical outcomes.
B. Lv   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Embryonic Biliary Atresia in a Very-low-birth-weight Premature Infant

open access: yesJournal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2007
Two major forms of biliary atresia, the embryonic and perinatal type, are considered to have different pathogeneses and distinct prognoses. Embryonic biliary atresia is associated with worse prognosis.
Hung-Wen Chen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chylothorax associated with a PICC line in a very low birth weight infant

open access: yesJournal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2022
A premature female neonate with perforated necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) required a laparotomy as well as a prolonged period of parental nutrition (PN) delivered via a left percutaneously inserted central catheter (PICC). Two weeks post PICC insertion,
Pagan Tawhai   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Eosinophilia in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

open access: yesPediatrics & Neonatology, 2010
Eosinophilia is common in premature infants, though its clinical significance remains unknown. This study investigated the pattern of eosinophilia and related factors in very low birth-weight (VLBW) infants.The medical records of VLBW infants (birth body weight < 1500 g) admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care center of Cheng ...
Jui-Mei Yen   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Metabolic Bone Disease in Very Low-Birth-Weight Neonates [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Neonatology, 2015
Background: Metabolic bone diseases (MBD), including rickets and osteopenia, are important neonatal complications among preterm infants. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of MBD in neonates with very low birth weight (VLBW ...
Kobra Shiasi Arani   +5 more
doaj  

The occurrence of developmental enamel defects in very low and extremely low birth-weight infants

open access: yesČeská Stomatologie a Praktické Zubní Lékařství, 2019
Introduction, aim: Preterm infants with very low birt-weights (VLBW) and extremely low birth-weights (ELBW) suffer from several prenatal and neonatal complications and morbidity that may affect mineralization of primary teeth and occurrence of ...
V. Merglová   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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