Fathers' experiences of supporting their partners during their preterm infant's stay in the neonatal intensive care unit: a multi-method study.

Objective: To explore how the fathers experience their role as a support for their partner and the relationship with them during their preterm infant's stay in the NICU.

Study Design: Multi-method longitudinal study involving ethnographic observation, semi-structured interviews, self-report questionnaires, and clinical information. Twenty fathers of preterm infants hospitalized in a level-III-NICU were included.

Fathers' experiences with their preterm babies admitted to neonatal intensive care unit: A multi-method study.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate fathers' emotional experiences of their infant's preterm birth and subsequent stay in neonatal intensive care unit.

Background: When a baby is born preterm, there is also the premature interruption of the process of preparation for fatherhood. As a result, the impact on fathers of the preterm birth can bring negative consequences for the development of father-infant relationship.

Predictive algorithms for early detection of retinopathy of prematurity.

Purpose: To evaluate sensitivity, specificity and the safest cut-offs of three predictive algorithms (WINROP, ROPScore and CHOP ROP) for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in three centres from 2012 to 2014; 445 preterms with gestational age (GA) ≤ 30 weeks and/or birthweight (BW) ≤ 1500 g, and additional unstable cases, were included. No-ROP, mild and type 1 ROP were categorized.

Routine coagulation tests in newborn and young infants.

Background: The diagnostic approach to haemostatic defects in the newborn is challenging and requires appropriate interpretation of coagulation tests according to reference values dependent on the postnatal age.

Methods: This investigation was designed to study the postnatal development of the human coagulation system in newborn infants and to develop appropriate reference ranges for prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) and fibrinogen (FBG) according at the day of birth and for the following postnatal period (days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, from 7 to 10 and from 11 to 44).

Results: The mean FBG value was already within the adult reference range in newborns at birth, the mean PT value fell within the adult reference range in infants aged 4 days or more, whereas the mean APTT value was still higher than the upper limit of the adult reference range in infants aged between 11 and 20 days.

Familial haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: survival of a premature twin with immuno-chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation from an HLA-identical unrelated donor.

Unlabelled: We describe a premature twin born at 30 wk of gestational age, affected with familial haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Two different mutations were identified in his DNA: one inherited from the mother and one from the father. Haemophagocytosis had been confirmed in his twin brother, who died soon after birth, as well as in the re-evaluation of the autopsy of his older sister, who died 1 y earlier.

Antepartum management and neonatal outcome of triplet pregnancies.

Materials And Methods: The maternal and neonatal outcome of 27 triplet and 1 quadruplet gestations was studied at the University Hospital of Verona.

Results: Mean maternal age was 31.7+/-3.

Serendipitous diagnosis of infracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous return by umbilical venous catheter blood gas samples.

Total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR) is a rare congenital heart defect that occurs when all four pulmonary veins connect to the systemic venous circulation. We describe a full-term male neonate who presented with cyanosis and mild tachypnea shortly after birth. One umbilical artery and the umbilical vein were catheterized, and oxygen treatment was provided.