Thyroid function in healthy and unhealthy preterm newborns.

Background: The thyroid gland and hormonal regulation are among the most important systems to be investigated in pre-term infants. This study sought to investigate thyroid hormone levels of healthy and unhealthy pre-term infants.

Methods: The prospective study included 53 consecutive premature infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit within a duration of one year.

Evaluation of pulmonary functions in preschool children born late-preterm.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the pulmonary functions of preschool children born late-preterm.

Material And Methods: Children aged between 3-7 years who were born at 3436 weeks' gestation represented the target sample. Patients with a diagnosis of congenital cardiac, pulmonary and/or muscle diseases were excluded.

Evaluation of lung function on impulse oscillometry in preschool children born late preterm.

Background: There is a paucity of data on lung physiology in late-preterm children, who may be exposed to a risk of decline in lung function during childhood. In this study, we evaluated lung function in preschool children born late preterm using impulse oscillometry (IOS), and compared the results with those obtained in healthy term-born children.

Methods: Children between 3 and 7 years of age who were born late preterm and who were being followed up at the outpatient clinic were included as the late-preterm group.

Is Hyperpigmentation on the First Day of Life Always Associated with IMAGe Syndrome?

IMAGe syndrome is an exceedingly rare condition first described in 1999. Components of the syndrome are intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR), metaphyseal dysplasia, congenital adrenal hypoplasia and genital anomalies. Cases generally present with life-threatening adrenal insufficiency in the neonatal period.

Arachnoid cysts in childhood with endocrinological outcomes.

Arachnoid cysts are mainly manifested with the consequent neurological disorders. Even though these cysts may interfere in many systems due to their localizations, there is little information concerning their involvement in endocrinological disorders. We emphasize endocrinological functions together with cyst localizations and neurological disorders in childhood.

Fetal urinary ascites in a neonate without detectable obstructive uropathy or neurogenic bladder etiology.

Fetal urinary ascites is usually secondary to an obstructive uropathy or neurogenic bladder. We present such a case in the absence of these conditions, but the presence of ipsilateral vesicoureteral reflux with Hutch diverticula. The patient was a 5-day-old boy presenting with distension of the abdomen and impairment of renal function.