Reference ranges for sonographic dimensions of the liver and spleen in preterm infants.

Background: Preterm infants usually have multiple comorbidities that affect spleen and liver. Ultrasonographic measurement of organ sizes is an important and reliable parameter in evaluation of spleen and liver pathology in preterm newborns.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine reference values of ultrasonographic measurements of the liver and spleen in preterm newborns.

Reference ranges for sonographic renal dimensions in preterm infants.

Background: Ultrasonographic measurement of kidney dimensions is important in evaluation of renal disease in preterm infants who have multiple comorbidities that affect renal function.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the reference ranges of kidney dimensions in preterm newborns and to provide a chart to use easily in daily practice.

Materials And Methods: We evaluated renal dimensions in 498 preterm infants with a gestational age of <37 weeks using sonography within the first week of life.

Comparison of oral and intravenous fluid therapy in newborns with hypernatremic dehydration.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and complications of oral and intravenous fluid therapy in newborns with hypernatremic dehydration.

Methods: A total of 75 term and near-term (>35 weeks) neonates with hypernatremic dehydration (Na ≥ 150 mmol/L) were included in this retrospective study. The patients were divided into two groups according to therapy approach for rehydration (breast milk-oral formula and intravenous fluid).

Vitamin D status of exclusively breastfed 4-month-old infants supplemented during different seasons.

Objective: To examine the vitamin D status of 4-month-old exclusively breastfed infants supplemented with 400 IU daily of vitamin D and to determine whether there was any seasonal variation in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels of infants.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, serum calcium, phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase, parathyroid hormone, and 25(OH)D levels of 143 exclusively breastfed 4-month-old infants supplemented daily with 400 IU of vitamin D were measured in a temperate latitude, Izmir, Turkey, between May 2008 and April 2009. A questionnaire on demographic characteristics of infants and mothers, vitamin D supplementation of infants after birth, mothers' multivitamin supplementation, dressing habits, and consumption of dairy products during pregnancy was used.

Vitamin B12 and folate statuses are associated with diet in pregnant women, but not with anthropometric measurements in term newborns.

Objective: To investigate the frequencies of vitamin B12 and folate deficiencies in pregnant women in low socioeconomic group, the relation between the animal-source foods consumption and maternal vitamin B12-folate statuses, and their impacts on anthropometric measurements of the infants.

Methods: A total of 208 pregnant women in the last trimester were included in the study. A questionnaire about socio-demographic status, consumption of meat, egg, milk-dairy products, multivitamin supplementation was used.

Vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women and their neonates in spring time in western Turkey.

Although Turkey is located in a sunny region, vitamin D deficiency is still a serious health problem in pregnant women and their infants, especially among the low socio-economic status Turkish population. This study was carried out in order to measure serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 [25(OH)D] concentrations of the pregnant women in the last trimester and in their neonates at delivery and to determine the factors associated with maternal serum 25(OH)D concentrations. Among the patients visiting the Ege Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in the period March to May 2008, 258 healthy pregnant women ≥37 weeks of gestation were included in this study.

Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy: a case report.

Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy is a rare vasculitic syndrome affecting young children. Although presentation is dramatic and striking, it is a benign disorder. A 9-month-old boy with fever, rhinorrhea, edema, and purpuric lesions involving the face, oral mucosa, ears, and extremities was presented.