Congenital Brucellosis: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Background: Knowledge of the spectrum of presentations and the outcome of congenital brucellosis should expedite diagnosis and improve prognostication.

Methods: A systematic review of literature of cases of congenital brucellosis was performed on October 10, 2017 (registered as PROSPERO CRD42017072061).

Results: A case seen by the authors was added to the review, yielding 44 reported cases of which 22 (50%) were from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, or Kuwait.

Consequences of brucellosis infection during pregnancy: A systematic review of the literature.

Background: The aim was to establish the incidence of adverse outcomes with brucellosis infection during pregnancy.

Methods: Ovid Medline (1946-), Ovid Embase (1974-), and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) (1900-), the World Health Organization website and Google were searched September 27, 2017 for (i) outcomes with brucellosis diagnosed during pregnancy and (ii) studies with retrospective diagnosis of maternal brucellosis following adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Results: Sixty studies met inclusion criteria.

Associations between spontaneous preterm birth and maternal-newborn ABO blood phenotype pairs.

Objective: To study whether spontaneous preterm birth (SPB) is associated with maternal-newborn ABO blood phenotype pairs.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective case-control study in the Department of Pediatrics, King Abdulaziz Hospital, Al-Ahsa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A total of 631 live singleton SPBs (less than 37 weeks) between August 2005 and May 2011 formed the case group.

The effect of low to moderate patient volume on very low-birth-weight outcomes in a level III-B neonatal intensive care unit.

We studied the effect of a low- to moderate-volume, level III-B neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) on very low-birth-weight (VLBW) outcomes. We performed a retrospective analysis of the King Abdulaziz Hospital (KAH) NICU electronic database. Short-term outcomes of all inborn VLBW infants (501 to 1500 g) in the well-equipped, well-staffed KAH NICU (2003 to 2008) were benchmarked with data (1997 to 2002) from the National Institute of Children Health and Human Development and Neonatal Research Network (NICHD-NRN).