Seizure burden and neurodevelopmental outcome in newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy treated with therapeutic hypothermia: A single center observational study.

Objective: To examine the relationship between electrographic seizures and developmental outcome at 18 and 24 months in neonates with moderate and severe hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy [HIE] treated with therapeutic hypothermia [TH].

Study Design: 30 term infants with moderate-severe HIE treated with TH were enrolled prospectively from June 2012 to May 2018. All had continuous single channel amplitude integrated EEG (aEEG) monitoring for a minimum of 72 h and brain MR within 4 weeks.

Severe neurologic and hepatic toxicity in a newborn prenatally exposed to methamphetamine. A case report.

Objective: In the recent years the increase of methamphetamines (MTA) abusers women has become an emerging problem. Very little data has been published regarding the effects of prenatal MTA exposure. We describe a case of MTA related toxicity in a term newborn which have early onset of neonatal encephalopathy and liver failure.

Broad-spectrum light versus blue light for phototherapy in neonatal hyperbilirubinemia: a randomized controlled trial.

Phototherapy is standard care for treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Our aim was to compare the effectiveness of broad-spectrum light (BSL) to that of blue light emitting diodes (LED) phototherapy for the treatment of jaundiced late preterm and term infants. Infants with gestational age from 35(+0) to 41(+6) weeks of gestation and nonhemolytic hyperbilirubinemia were randomized to treatment with BSL phototherapy or blue LED phototherapy.

Congenital and perinatal cytomegalovirus lung infection.

Background: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis may be severe, even lethal, following congenital infection or in premature infants with perinatal infection.

Objective: To review the epidemiological, pathogenetic, clinical and therapeutic features of prenatal and perinatal CMV lung diseases.

Methods: Evaluation of all published papers listed on PubMed describing CMV pneumonitis in infants.

Fortification of maternal milk for preterm infants.

During the last few decades, neonatal survival rates for preterm infants have markedly been improved. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that preterm neonates should receive sufficient nutrients to enable them to grow at a rate similar to that of fetuses of the same gestational age. Although human milk is the recommended nutritional source for newborn infants for at least the first six months of postnatal life, unfortified human breast milk may not meet the recommended nutritional needs of growing preterm infants.