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Caesarian Delivery Impair Innate Immunity of Mother and Newborn
Introduction: An increased risk of infectious and allergic disease has been suggested for neonates born from caesarean delivery. The innate immunity play a crucial role in the host defence in neonatal age. The ai...
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Ranitidine Therapy Increases the Risk of Sepsis and Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Low Birthweight Infants: Prospective Multicenter Study
Background and aims: Gastric acidity is a major non-immune defense mechanism against infections. In adults and children treated with gastric acidity inhibitors (GAI) there is evidence of an increased risk of inte...
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Analysis of weight gain composition determined in preterm infants with Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA)
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Gender influence on body composition in preterm infants fed human milk or preterm formula
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EFFECTS OF HUMAN MILD FORTIFIERS ON THE OSMOLALITY OF HUMAN MILK
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Evaluation of weight gain composition during the two first months of life in breast fed and formula fed infants using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry
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Evaluation of Weight Gain Composition by Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry in Preterm Infants Fed Preterm Formula (PTF) or Human Milk Fortifier (HMF). 203
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INTRAUTERINE WHOLE BODY FAT CONTENT ANALYSIS BY DUAL ENERGY X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY (DXA) OF PRETERM AND TERM INFANTS AT BIRTH 1897
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INTRAUTERINE WHOLE BODY BMC AND CALCIUM (CA) CONTENT ANALYSIS BY DUAL ENERGY X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY (DXA) OF PRETERM AND TERM INFANTS AT BIRTH † 1896
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Bone mineralization during the first year of life
The goal of feeding regimens for low birth weight (LBW) infants is to obtain a prompt postnatal resumption of growth to a rate approximating that seen during intrauterine growth and to follow after term a grow...
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Monitoring steatorrhoea in cystic fibrosis
The aim of the study was the evaluation of the relationship between chemical fat analysis and some more rapid tests proposed to estimate steatorrhoea. Stool collections (72 h) were obtained on 32 occasions in ...
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Birth weight of Italian infants of 30 weeks' gestation or less
Mean birth weights and percentile charts are given for 161 singleton infants born between 24 and 30 weeks' gestation at the 2nd School of Medicine of Naples. This chart is the first for a Mediterranean populat...
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66 INVOLVEMENT OF THE COLON IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF DIARRHEA IN JAUNDICED INFANTS IN PHOTOTHERAPY
Hyperbilirubinemic newborns (h.n.) in phototherapy (ph) often develop diarrhea. We have previously presented evidence that this is of secretory type (1), furthermore in an animal model we showed that bilirubin...
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ENERGY (E) AND NITROGEN (N) BALANCES IN VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS (VLBI)
23 E and N balances were performed in 12 VLBI. 4 were fed with a preterm formula (P F) and 8 with expressed breast milk (EBM). The two groups were comparable for birthweight (1133±164 vs 1016±235g), gestationa...
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A case control study of necrotizing enterocolitis occurring over 8 years in a neonatal intensive care unit
The perinatal histories of 27 newborn infants with NEC were compared to those of 54 infants of equivalent birth weight who did not have NEC during an 8-year study period to see if possible predisposing factors...
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Prenatal ultrasonic diagnosis of meconium peritonitis in a preterm infant
This paper reports on a preterm infant with meconium peritonitis in which prenatal sonography demonstrated calcified peritoneal meconium associated with fetal ascites. His spontaneous and favorable outcome is ...
