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Antenatal consultation and deliberation: adapting to parental preferences
To analyze and compare perspectives on antenatal consultation and decision-making from participants with varying degrees of prematurity experience and clinician-experts.
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How to hold an effective NICU family meeting: capturing parent perspectives to build a more robust framework
To record the content and parental perceptions of family meetings in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to improve existing frameworks for facilitating these meetings.
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You Can’t Take Your Baby Home Yet: A Longitudinal Study of Psychological Symptoms in Mothers of Infants Hospitalized in the NICU
Evidence suggests that mothers of infants hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) experience elevated rates of psychological symptoms. However, previous studies of this population have been mai...
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Constructing a Culturally Informed Spanish Decision-Aid to Counsel Latino Parents Facing Imminent Extreme Premature Delivery
Objective How Latino parents perceive and understand antenatal counseling for extreme prematurity, < 26 weeks of gestational age (GA), is not clear. We aim to characterize Latino parental perceptions of antenatal...
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Is urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin able to predict acute kidney injury episodes in very low birth weight infants in clinical settings?
We evaluated the potential utility of elevated urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (UNGAL) concentration as a screening test for early identification of acute kidney injury (AKI) in very low bir...
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Urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin: potential biomarker for late-onset sepsis
To assess the ability of urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (UNGAL) to discriminate between culture-positive vs. culture-negative late-onset sepsis evaluations.
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Open AccessSerum creatinine concentration in very-low-birth-weight infants from birth to 34–36 wk postmenstrual age
Serum creatinine (s[Cr]) reference ranges for very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants must account for physiologic changes in the first months of life.
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Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin Is a Promising Biomarker for Late Onset Culture-Positive Sepsis in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
Need for the early identification of sepsis in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants has led to the search for reliable biomarkers. This study aims to determine whether urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated ...
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Reference Values of Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
In very low birth weight (VLBW) infants, acute renal impairment (ARI) is common, but there is no consensus about criteria for its diagnosis. Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is an early and se...
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Alpha-Thalassemia Major Presenting in a Term Neonate without Hydrops
We describe the clinical and pathologic features of an unusual case of alpha-thalassemia major in a patient who survived to term and lived for 9 days. The neonate was nonhydropic and the clinical picture was d...
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Hypocapnia and Other Ventilation-Related Risk Factors for Cerebral Palsy in Low Birth Weight Infants
Ventilatory management patterns in very low birth weight newborns, particularly iatrogenic hypocapnia, have occasionally been implicated in perinatal brain damage. However, such relationships have not been exp...
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Relationship of Early Neonatal Base Excess and pCO2 to Survival and Disabling Cerebral Palsy in the <2000 gm. Infant • 1225
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Expression of Natural Killer (NK) Cells In Newborn Infants With Early Onset Sepsis 1461
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The Effect of Antenatal Steroids (ANS) on Cord Blood Stem Cells (CD34) in Premature Infants 1387
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THROMBOCYTOSIS IN VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT (VLBW) INFANTS. 1437
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PRENATAL STEROIDS (PNS) REDUCE ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION IN VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT NEONATES ≤ 1500 GM. 1396
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The Role of Cortical Na,K-ATPase in Distal Nephron Potassium Secretion by the Immature Canine Kidney
ABSTRACT: Amiloride-sensitive potassium secretion in response to acute potassium loading is lower in the newborn than in the adult. Potassium secretion is a function of late distal tubule and cortical collecti...
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Effects of Euvolemic and Hypervolemic Hyperbicarbonemia on Segmental Nephron HCO3 Reabsorption in the Newborn Dog1
ABSTRACT: Studies were undertaken to determine the effect of elevated plasma bicarbonate concentration (PHCO3) with and without volume expansion on segmental nephron HCO3 reabsorption in newborn and adult dogs...
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1576 PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTORS IN POSTNATAL DIURESIS IN PRETERM INFANTS
Abrupt increase in urine output in preterm infants on 2nd-3rd day of life has been documented. To determine the etiology of this diuresis, sequential changes in renal function during the first five days were s...
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Hemodynamically significant PDA: An echocardiographic and clinical assessment of incidence, natural history, and outcome in very low birth weight infants maintained in negative fluid balance
Fifty very low birth weight (VLBW) infants (750–1500 g, 27–33 weeks gestational age) were assigned at random to one of two groups of negative fluid balance and underwent prospective clinical and echocardiograp...