... of group B neonates, with a concurrent decrease in beneficial gut flora. Conclusion: This study provides strong evidence for the association between gut pathogen colonization and BSI development in preterm neonates in NICUs. Gut microbiota modulation may serve as preventive strategy against BSIs...

... during the first 72 h of life in preterm neonates. Methods: The preterm neonates enrolled in this single-center retrospective cohort study were categorized into 3 groups: reference, infection-unlikely respiratory failure, and probable bacterial infection; their serum PCT and hs-CRP levels were assessed...

...Rie Olsen; Gorm Greisen; Morten Schrøder; Jesper Brok Background: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a major morbidity and cause of mortality in preterm neonates. Probiotics seem to have a beneficial role in preventing NEC, which is confirmed in meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials (RCTs...

...-PROM) without fetal growth restriction (FGR). Methods: The frequency of RDS was examined in 378 singleton preterm neonates (24.5-34 weeks' gestation) due to PTL or preterm-PROM without FGR. Patients were divided into 4 groups according to the severity of acute-HCA (i.e. total grade: minimal, 1; mild, 2...

..., birth weight: 530–4,200 g). Results: The TAPSE ranged from a mean of 0.44 cm (Z-score ±2: 0.30–0.59 cm) in preterm neonates in the 26th week of gestation to 1.03 cm (Z-score ±2: 0.85–1.21 cm) in term neonates in the 41st week of gestation. The TAPSE values increased in a linear way from the 26th to 41st...

... responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Propofol Preterm neonates Cerebral tissue oxygenation index Fractional tissue oxygen extraction Near-infrared spectroscopy formerly Biology...

... with dihydrorhodamine 123 (DHR 123). It was found that the percentage of responding neutrophils in term neonates was comparable to that found in adults (medians 83.5 and 89.8%, respectively), whereas it was significantly lower in the healthy preterm neonates (median 70.6%, p < 0.05). The NRBA was further depressed...

...Elie Saliba; Elisabeth Autret; Francis Gold; Daniel Bloc; Léandre Pourcelot; Jean Laugier A continuous-wave form Doppler monitor was used to examine the effect of caffeine on cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) in 7 clinically stable preterm neonates suffering from apnea. Caffeine, in the form...

...) infection in neonates. Methods: β 2 M was retrospectively measured in 72 neonatal serum samples from preterm neonates. Of these, 32 originated from neonates with serological evidence of congenital toxoplasmosis (n = 12) and CMV infection (n = 20), while 40 samples from neonates in which both infections were...

... dismutase Preterm neonates Bronchopulmonary dysplasia Blood transfusion Hyperoxic exposure © 2005 S. Karger AG, Basel 2005 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated into other languages, reproduced or utilized in any form...

... in the premature group (10% allele frequency vs. 4.8% in the controls, p < 0.05), and a normal prevalence in the mature group (4.6 vs. 3.1%, respectively); therefore, the overall increase was due to the increase of incidence rate in preterm neonates. Conclusions: These data confirm our previous results...

...Pietro Girlando; Antonio Alberto Zuppa; Costantino Romagnoli; Giuseppe Tortorolo The effect of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) administration at 10 μg/kg/day for 15–30 min over 3 consecutive days in 3 preterm neonates with allo-immune neonatal neutropenia (ANN...