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Perinatal Factors and Intraventricular/Subependymal Hemorrhage in the Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infant,event. Bleeding occurs in approximately 40% of VLBW infants, with major hemorrhaging occurring in up to half of these infants [1,2]. Bleeding usually occurs in the first 3 days after birth. Major hemorrhages have been associated with abnormal neurologic outcome in at least 50% of affected infants [2

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Hemodynamically Significant Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Low-Birth-Weight Infants: Fact or Fiction?,lar bed to the much lower resistance systemic circulation. At birth or soon thereafter the pulmonary vascular bed experiences a substantial degree of vasodilation and lowering of vascular resistance by mechanisms presently unknown, whereas systemic vascular resistance increases. The former occurs in

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An Update on Genetic Prenatal Diagnosis,e conditions have hereditary or genetic causes. Only during the past 20 years has prenatal diagnosis of genetic conditions moved from a research orientation to a major clinical service. With all of the new developments in the field of medical genetics, it has become increasingly vital that physician

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Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS),urvival in infants with RDS [3,4]. Even with the utilization of these measures, RDS was still the major factor contributing to death in 11,900 infants per year in the years 1969 to 1973. The average contribution of RDS to the neonatal mortality rate—20%— made it the highest single factor associated with death in neonates [5].

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tant and challenging specialty. Rapid advances in the field, coupled with tech- nological advances, now are making survival of infants with weights as low as 500 grams possible. Ventilator care for severe respiratory problems is on the verge of being replaced by surfactant replacement therapy; on th

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Wertorientierte Unternehmungstransformation during pregnancy. Around this time, also, descriptions of withdrawal suffered by neonates exposed in utero to narcotics (heroin or methadone) [2] emphasized the need for further study of the behavioral and neurologic effects of drugs on the developing fetus and child.

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Wissensbasierte Netzwerke im Finanzsektor Such destabilization is a recognized part of the growth process. However, for the couple delivering a child with a birth defect, especially if that birth defect was unanticipated, the postpregnancy period is one of special stress.