... or alternative therapies. Apnea of prematurity Caffeine Neonatal intensive care unit Pharmacotherapy Premature infants Apnea of prematurity (AOP) reflects an immature control of breathing in preterm newborns, affecting nearly all infants born before 29 weeks’ gestation [ 1 ]. AOP is characterized...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2024 Umbilical cord clamping Necrotizing enterocolitis Premature infants Hypoxia...

.... 2023 Premature infants Body composition Neurodevelopmental outcomes Neonatal intensive care unit Air displacement plethysmography With advances in nutrition for preterm infants, there has been increasing focus on optimizing body composition of the neonate [ 1, 2 ]. Many studies have...

... Neurodevelopmental outcomes Premature infants Retinopathy of prematurity Visual motor integration Advancements in ante- and neonatal care, monitoring, and ventilatory support have permitted infants of lower birth weights and younger gestational ages (GAs) to survive [ 1 ]. Complementary to a decreasing...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2022 Clinical trial Nutrition Anthropometrics Electrolyte disturbances Postnatal growth Neurodevelopment Premature infants NIH Between September 2016 and June 2017, sixty infants were randomized. Baseline...

...Wesam Alyahya; Judith Simpson; Ada L. Garcia; Helen Mactier; David Young; Christine A. Edwards Objective: Mother’s own milk (MOM) is the optimal feed for premature infants but may not always be sufficiently available. Alternative feeding includes donor human milk (DONOR), with or without...

... ] and proved to be adequately powered to detect differences based on the results. Digestion Gastric contents Premature infants Breast milk Peptidomic antibodies Polymeric immunoglobulin receptor Passive immunity Demographic details for the mother-infant pairs are presented in Table 1...

... Hb threshold for RBCT has been defined [ 6, 15 ], meaning that some infants are exposed to progressive anaemia which may result in gut hypoxia and injury [ 16 ]. Premature infants Blood transfusion Anaemia Perfusion Physiological parameters Necrotizing enterocolitis Neurodevelopment...

... Nutritional requirements Premature Infants National Institutes of Health (NIH) 10.13039/100000002 Nearly 70% of extremely preterm infants (<28 weeks of gestation) have low vitamin D concentrations at birth [ 1,2,3 ]. These infants depend on external sources of vitamin D [ 4,5...

... domain (NOD)-like receptor (NLR) family of immune receptors as putative loci for preterm sepsis susceptibility. Objective: To determine whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in NLR genes are associated with blood stream infections (BSI) in premature infants. Methods: An international cohort...

.... Minimal enteral feeding Feeding practices Necrotizing enterocolitis Premature infants Extremely low-birth-weight infants In current clinical practice, many clinicians initiate a 3- to 5-day course of minimal enteral feeding or trophic feeding (≤24 mL/kg/day) within the first 4 days after birth...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Necrotizing enterocolitis Intestinal microbiota Premature infants Inflammation Toll-like receptor 4 Surgery Although necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is one of the most common life...

...Lan-Wan Wang; Yung-Chieh Lin; Yi-Fang Tu; Shan-Tair Wang; Chao-Ching Huang; for the Taiwan Premature Infant Developmental Collaborative Study Group Background: Cystic periventricular leukomalacia (cPVL) is the most severe white matter injury and is often associated with intraventricular hemorrhage...

... seem the most appropriate for pain management in NEC [ 15 ]. For premature infants weighing <1,000 g, 10 μg/kg/h of morphine or 0.5-2 μg/kg/h continuous fentanyl is considered a reasonable dosage to relieve NEC-related pain [ 16 ], although there is no evidence for this assumption. Based...

... including 184 premature infants. Infants with sepsis, congenital anomaly, or clinically evident intra-amniotic infections were excluded. Multivariate analysis of covariance was used to detect the interaction between GA and PNA. To compare subgroups dichotomized by GA and PNA, analysis of covariance...

.... Premature infants Very low birth weight Nutrition Growth Neurocognitive development Visual event-related potentials Inadequate nutrient supply results in poor postnatal growth [ 1 ]. Malnutrition in the perinatal period may have negative consequences on brain development [ 2 ]. Preterm children...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Oxygen therapy Randomised crossover trial Oxygen saturation Premature infants Maintenance of oxygen saturation within a target range is a vital element of the care of preterm infants [ 1 ]. Deviations from the target range...

... is associated with improved growth velocity, increased head circumference growth and decreased regional WM mean diffusivity, suggesting improved maturation of cerebral connective tracts. Premature infants Growth and nutrition Brain imaging Brain maturation Diffusion tensor imaging Mean diffusivity...

... of the extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infant. Pediatr Pulmonol 2009;44:128-133. This work was performed at the Neonatal Clinical Care Unit, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Australia. Very-low birth weight infants Premature infants Tidal volume Artificial respiration Despite...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Necrotizing enterocolitis Intestinal fatty acid-binding protein Premature infants Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) occurs with an incidence of 7% in infants...