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In the Leading article posted in Febr 09, you can read about a clinical framework for management of babies born extremely preterm at less than 26 weeks of gestation. The article is written by a British group led by professor Andrew R Wilkinson.
The article is published in collaboration with the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Arc
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This Leading article is an interesting paper about nurse-led resuscitation of neonates, by Donna Neal, Danny Stewart... ...
Gastroenterology & Nutrition:
Neonatology Questions and Controversies
Edited by Richard A. Polin
Publisher: Saunders Elsevier
Pub. Date: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4160-3160-4.
Included in series Neonatology: Questions & Controversies
Gastroenterology and Nutrition: Neonatology Questions and Controversies, this book with its 19 chapters in 3 sections had aptly incorporated clinical neonatal ga
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This Leading article, originally posted in November 2008, is about the value of the postnatal examination in improving... ...
This Leading article is about epidemiology and patophysiology of hearing loss in children born with low birth weight.... ...
This Leading article is a research paper from the field of a Developmental Origin of Disease and Health (DOHaD). Anna-Karin Edstedt Bonamy and co-workers in Sweden report that teenagers born preterm have reduced diameter of the aorta. An association between preterm birth and reduced aortic growth may be important for the long-term cardiovascular health in individuals born preterm.
The article,
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This Leading article, originally posted in Sept-08, is about N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptid (NT-proBNP) as a marker of significant patent ductus arteriosus.
The article is published in collaboration with the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Archives of Disease in Childhood and the authors.
N-terminal pro-B-type na
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This report has critically evaluated neonatal resuscitation of 177 Swedish infants born with severe asphyxia, due to medical malpractice at the time of labour.
The Leading article, originally posted in August 2008, is written by Sophie Berglund and co-workers in Stockholm, Sweden.
The article is published in collaboration with the journal Acta Paediatrica.
Neonatal resuscitation after s
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These Leading articles, one Perspective article and one Original article, are about neonatal outcomes with caesarean delivery at term.
The articles are posted in collaboration with the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood. Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Archives of Disease in Childhood.
PERSPECTIVE
Neonatal outcomes with caesarean delivery at term
Dharmintra P
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Do not miss to read the article about 99nicu in January issue of NeonatologyToday... ...
Extremely preterm birth and the interplay between outcomes and ethics are the topics for the following Leading articles, originally posted in February 2008.
The original article is a hospital-based cohort study including all infants between <26 weeks of gestation admitted to a single UK neonatal centre between 1981 and 2000. The take home message is that mortality has improved, without an incre
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