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Editorial Board
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IFC
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| Best Practice Guidelines |
| Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Surgery |
| Guest Editor: Kokila Lakhoo |
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Introductory editorial: Prenatal diagnosis and fetal surgery
Despite improvements in perinatal care serious birth defects still account for 20% of all deaths in the newborn period and an even greater percentage of serious morbidity later in infancy and childhoo...
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Kokila Lakhoo
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Prenatal diagnosis: Types and techniques
Abstract: Up to 3% of UK pregnancies will be affected by congenital abnormality. Prenatal diagnosis allows the parents to make informed decisions about their pregnancy, healthcare professionals to opt...
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S.L. Collins,
L. Impey
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3-8
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Fetal counselling for surgical conditions
Abstract: Foetal counselling is best achieved by a multidisciplinary team that can favourably influence the perinatal management of prenatally diagnosed anomalies and provide this information to prosp...
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Kokila Lakhoo
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9-13
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Best practice guidelines: Fetal surgery
Abstract: Fetal intervention encompasses a range of procedures on the fetus with congenital structural anomalies, whilst still on the placental circulation. The concept of fetal surgery was conceived ...
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Nada Sudhakaran,
Uma Sothinathan,
Shailesh Patel
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15-19
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Skin conductance measurements as pain assessment in newborn infants born at 22–27 weeks gestational age at different postnatal age
Abstract: Background: To assess pain or stress in newborn infants submitted to intensive care is important but difficult, as different observational pain scales are not always reliable in premature in...
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Josanne Munsters,
Linda Wallström,
Johan Ågren,
Torgny Norsted,
Richard Sindelar
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21-26
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Episodes of hypocarbia and early-onset sepsis are risk factors for cystic periventricular leukomalacia in the preterm infant
Abstract: Background: Septic episodes in preterm infants recently have been reported to be associated with periventricular leukomalacia (PVL). The role of hypocarbia as an independent risk factor for ...
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B. Resch,
K. Neubauer,
N. Hofer,
E. Resch,
U. Maurer,
J. Haas,
W. Müller
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27-31
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Long-term neurological outcome of term-born children treated with two or more anti-epileptic drugs during the neonatal period
Abstract: Background: Neonatal seizures may persist despite treatment with multiple anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs). Objective: To determine in term-born infants with seizures that required two or more AE...
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Mariska J. van der Heide,
Elise Roze,
Christa N. van der Veere,
Hendrik J. ter Horst,
Oebele F. Brouwer,
Arend F. Bos
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33-38
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Is it possible to predict the infant's neurodevelopmental outcome at 14months of age by means of a single preterm assessment of General Movements?
Abstract: Background: It continues to be a challenge for clinicians to identify preterm infants likely to experience subsequent neurodevelopmental deficits. The Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP)...
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Sonia Aparecida Manacero,
Peter B. Marschik,
Magda Lahorgue Nunes,
Christa Einspieler
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39-43
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Parenting stress in mothers of preterm infants during early infancy
Abstract: Objective: Mothers of preterm infants during the first year of life may experience stresses greater that those found in mothers of term infants. The aim of the study was to determine the lev...
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Peter H. Gray,
Dawn M. Edwards,
Michael J. O'Callaghan,
Monica Cuskelly
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45-49
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Validation of transcutaneous bilirubin nomogram in identifying neonates not at risk of hyperbilirubinaemia: A prospective, observational, multicenter study
Abstract: Background: Transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) measurement is widely used as screening for neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia. Aims: To prospectively validate TcB measurement using hour-specific nomog...
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Costantino Romagnoli,
Eloisa Tiberi,
Giovanni Barone,
Mario De Curtis,
Daniela Regoli,
Piermichele Paolillo,
Simonetta Picone,
Stefano Anania,
Maurizio Finocchi,
Valentina Cardiello,
Enrico Zecca
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51-55
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The effect of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG supplemented enteral feeding on the microbiotic flora of preterm infants-double blinded randomized control trial
Abstract: Background and Aim: Intestinal flora of preterms, dominantly presents with decreased amounts of physiological microbiota. This double blinded randomized control trial compared the stool of b...
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Danuta Chrzanowska-Liszewska,
Joanna Seliga-Siwecka,
Maria K. Kornacka
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57-60
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Higher incidence of thyroid agenesis in Mexican newborns with congenital hypothyroidism associated with birth defects
Abstract: Background: Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is the most common endocrine system disorder in newborns. Ectopic thyroid and agenesis are the most frequent thyroid structural malformations. Seve...
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Susana Monroy-Santoyo,
Isabel Ibarra-González,
Cynthia Fernández-Lainez,
Sydney Greenawalt-Rodríguez,
Jorge Chacón-Rey,
Raúl Calzada-León,
Marcela Vela-Amieva
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61-64
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