The association of intrapartum deceleration and acceleration areas with MRI findings in neonatal encephalopathy.

Background: Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is an important contributor to disability worldwide. The current cardiotocography (CTG) predictive value for neonatal outcome is limited.

Objective: To assess the association of intrapartum CTG deceleration and acceleration areas with early MRI cerebral pathology in infants with HIE.

Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis: maternal diabetes and perinatal exposure to non-macrolide antibiotics.

Objective: Infant exposure to macrolide antibiotics is a risk factor for infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS). The aim of the study was to establish whether perinatal exposure to non-macrolide antibiotics was a risk factor for IHPS.

Study Design: A retrospective matched case-control study was performed using a database including all children born at Soroka University Medical Centre between 2006 and 2018.

Oral insulin supplementation in paediatric short bowel disease: a pilot observational study.

Background And Aim: Insulin is present in human milk, and oral insulin supplementation causes a dramatic adaptive gut growth in a rat model of short bowel syndrome (SBS). We conducted an open-label pilot observational study to examine whether oral insulin supplementation to paediatric patients with SBS decreases the need for parenteral nutrition (PN).

Methods: Between April 2004 and March 2006, 10 premature infants and children were recruited from 8 paediatric gastroenterology centres in Israel, Croatia, and Germany.

Fetal growth and postnatal growth failure in very-low-birthweight infants.

Aim: To determine in a cohort of very-low-birthweight (VLBW) infants the incidence of postnatal growth failure and the influence of intrauterine growth and neonatal morbidities on the risk for severe postnatal growth failure (PNGF).

Methods: The study was based on analysis of data from the Israel Neonatal Network database on VLBW infants born between 1995 and 2001. Z-score was determined for weight at birth and discharge, and severe PNGF was defined as a decline in z-score of greater than 2.