AIMS To quantify the incidence of ventricular septal defect in “low-risk” neonates; and to define any associated risk factors. METHODS One hundred and seventy three patients with ventricular septal ...

Magnetic resonance imaging studies in two cases of neonatal hypoglycaemia showed cortical and white matter cerebral damage that was most obvious in the occipital lobes. Both cases showed oedema in the ...

Department of Child Health, University of Bristol, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB Professor Peter Dunn. If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please ...

Objective To study the organisms causing early and late onset neonatal sepsis, with special reference to multi-drug resistant gram negative bacilli, at two neonatal units (one urban, one rural) in ...

2 University of Liverpool Institute of Translational Medicine, Liverpool, UK Correspondence to Harriet Corbett, University of Liverpool Institute of Translational Medicine, Child Health, Crown Street, ...

Correspondence to Dr Mathilde Letouzey, Department of Neonatal Medicine, Poissy-Saint-Germain Hospital, Poissy 78300, France; mathilde.letouzey{at}gmail.com ...

High osmolality of infant feed reflects a high concentration of solute particles and has been implicated as a cause of necrotising enterocolitis. Evidence for direct intestinal mucosal injury as a ...

Tayside Institute of Child Health, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY, Scotland, UK Correspondence to: Dr McGuire, Tayside Institute of Child Health, Ninewells Hospital and Medical ...

Background Systemic corticosteroids as the frontline treatment of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in preterm infants are associated with adverse effects on growth and neurodevelopmental outcome, ...

AIMS To compare the perinatal mortality and morbidity of infants with twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) with those of gestation matched twin controls and to assess the neurodevelopmental outcome ...

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Tygerberg Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Dr K S Strozik, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Stellenbosch, PO Box ...

6 Critical Sciences Theme, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr Joyce E O'Shea, Department of Neonatology, Maternity Building, Southern General ...