Follow-up of infants with congenital cytomegalovirus and normal fetal imaging.

Objective: To evaluate the outcome of infants with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and normal fetal imaging.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Tertiary paediatric medical centre.

Birth trauma--risk factors and short-term neonatal outcome.

Objective: The ability to predict birth trauma (BT) based on the currently recognized risk factors is limited and there is little information regarding the short-term neonatal outcome following BT. We aimed to identify risk factors for BT and to evaluate the effect of BT on short-term neonatal outcome.

Methods: A retrospective, cohort, case-control study of all cases of BT in a single tertiary center (1986-2009).

Role of fetal length in the prediction of fetal weight.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy of routine fetal biometric indices in the prediction of fetal length and to determine whether more accurate sonographic measures of fetal length can improve the accuracy of fetal weight estimation.

Methods: The accuracy of the common sonographic fetal biometric indices for predicting fetal length was determined using 3689 sonographic weight estimations performed within 3 days before delivery. The fetal length at the time of the sonographic examination was assumed to be equal to the neonatal length, which is routinely measured within 24 hours of delivery.

Monthly number of preterm births and environmental physical activity.

Unlabelled: Recent studies have reported links between external physical factors and human homeostasis.

Objective: to determine whether the monthly values of specific physical environmental factors are associated with the monthly number of preterm births in a major medical center in Israel.

Methods: The sample included 1006 infants weighing less than 1500g born live to 774 mothers during 96 consecutive months (1995-2002) at a tertiary medical center in Israel.