High-intensity phototherapy for the treatment of severe nonhaemolytic neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.

Aim: To describe the clinical approach to term and near-term newborn infants with severe hyperbilirubinaemia and to analyse the effect of high-intensity phototherapy on total serum bilirubin (TSB) levels.

Methods: We analysed a cohort of 116 newborn infants with severe nonhaemolytic hyperbilirubinaemia (TSB ≥20 mg/dL/342 μmol/L). All patients were treated with high-intensity phototherapy.

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia prediction model for 7-day-old infants.

Objective: To develop a predictive model capable of identifying which premature infants have the greatest probability of presenting bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), based on assessment at the end of their first week of life.

Methods: Data were collected retrospectively from January 1998 to July 2001, and prospectively from August 2001 to July 2003. All children born at the Institution with gestational age < 34 weeks and birth weight < 1,500 g were included.