Risk factors for cerebral palsy in very low-birthweight infants in the 1980s and 1990s.

One-hundred twenty-nine very low-birthweight infants were treated in Newborn and Infant Care Department of Children's Memorial Health Institute between 1985 and 1994; 89 were taken to prospective neurodevelopmental care. The newborns were divided into two groups. Group I had 38 preterm infants born from 1985 to 1989 and followed up at 7 to 11 years of age.

[Chronic, infantile, neurologic, cutaneous and articular syndrome (CINCA) in an infant].

Background: CINCA syndrome is a clinical syndrome of unclear etiology, characterized by a chronic multi-organ inflammatory process unsusceptible to treatment.

Case Report: An 18-month-old boy was admitted because he suffered, since the age of 2 months, from cutaneous, articular and neurological changes, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, choroiditis and psychosomatic development retardation. These clinical symptoms were unsusceptible to anti-inflammatory and antihistaminic drugs.

[Estimate of clinical dynamic in periventricular leukomalacia].

Clinical observations of 68 preterm and term newborns with ultrasonographically diagnosed PVL treated in the Infant Department of the Child Health Center in Warsaw from January 1985 to December 1990 are presented. The most frequent clinical sign in newborns was hypotonia of the lower extremities. Tremors were significantly more frequent in preterms.

[Diagnosis of Edwards syndrome in newborns].

Congenital malformations most useful for the diagnosis of trisomy 18 in the first days of life were defined based on observations of newborns with Edwards syndrome treated at the Child Health Center in 1992-1994. Intrauterine growth retardation, facial skeleton dysmorphy, congenital heart malformation, mainly VSD, extremity malformations, especially of the palms and feet found in the newborn suggest a diagnosis of Edwards syndrome. The need to differentially diagnose trisomy 18 with autosomal recessive syndrome TAR, Roberts and Smith-Lemli-Opitz is stressed.

Development conditions and principles for identification of cow's milk protein hypersensitivity in infants.

The authors studied a group of 153 infants presenting pneumonia and/or bronchitis suspected to be immunized to cow's milk proteins (cow's milk allergy). The diagnosis was confirmed in 96 children (62.7%), which is 20.