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Hypothermia in preterm infants on admission to neonatal intensive care units remains an issue. Initial hypothermia was found to be one of the important risk factors for increased mortality and...
Infantile hemangioma is a common, benign tumor of infancy. Although systemic propranolol was found to be effective in the treatment of infantile hemangioma, its use is often challenging for clinicians...
PURPOSE: Blood glucose control in diabetic mothers during pregnancy is very important because it can affect fetal and neonatal outcomes. We therefore investigated the clinical outcomes of infants of diabetic...
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia associated with lung injury is an important morbidity in extremely low birth weight infants. Lung injury during mechanical ventilation is associated with high tidal volume and high end-inspiratory...
In the past several decades, supplemental oxygen has been used more than any other medical product in preterm infants. Early trials suggested that restricting oxygen supplementation could reduce retinopathy of...
PURPOSE: Melatonin is a naturally occurring hormone produced by the pineal gland. Melatonin has many pharmacological effects in different tissues or organs. Melatonin is especially known to have antioxidant and...
Anemia is a common condition in preterm infants. Packed red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is used for the management of anemia; however, evidence on the benefits of this treatment is...
Many neonatologists routinely treat infants whose mean arterial blood pressure in mm Hg is less than their gestational age in weeks (GA) but there is uncertainty regarding diagnosis and treatment...
DNA pyrosequencing, one of the advanced methods for DNA sequencing, has been employed for phylogenetic analysis of bacterial communities using the conserved 16S rRNA gene. We performed a pilot study...