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Open AccessFrom bench to bedside: in vitro and in vivo evaluation of a neonate-focused nebulized surfactant delivery strategy
Non-invasive delivery of nebulized surfactant has been a neonatology long-pursued goal. Nevertheless, the clinical efficacy of nebulized surfactant remains inconclusive, in part, due to the great technical cha...
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Breastfeeding of Very Preterm Infants at Discharge from Nicu: Results from the Italian Area-Based “Action” Study
Aims: Human milk has several advantages for very preterm infants, including reduced risk of sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis. This study aims at describing breastfeeding rates in very preterm infants at disch...
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Neurodevelopmental and Respiratory Outcomes at 2 Years of Age in Preterm Infants Treated with Inhaled Nitric Oxide: the Euno Trial Follow Up
Background and aims: The EUNO trial of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) for the prevention of BPD showed similar frequencies for the primary outcome (survival without BPD at 36 weeks postmenstrual age (PMA): iNO 65.3%;...
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178 THE EFFECT OF ORAL OR PARENTERAL ADMINISTRATION OF MEDIUM CHAIN TRIGLYCERIDES (MCT) ON THE EXCRETION OF DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS (DCA) IN LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS
Significant urinary excretion of DCA is found in newborns fed MCT containing diets. This may misled in the dignosis of inborn error of metabolism and represents an energy loss. Since the liver plays a key role...
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ADAPTED AND PRETERM FORMULA: EFFECTS ON GROWTH AND AMINOACIDS METABOLISM IN LOW-BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS
Two groups of premature infants were fed with isocaloric formulae. One group, 11 babies (b), mean gestational age 32 weeks(w), mean birth weight 1600 gm (g), received a preterm formula. This is an attempt by d...
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ABNORMAL PATTERNS OF POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS (PUFA) IN PLASMA PHOSPHOLIPIDS (PL) IN PREMATURE INFANTS FED MEDIUM CHAIN TRIGLYCERIDE (MCT) DIET
During early human development the requirement for essential fatty acids (EFA) is increased. In order to establish normative data, we studied the fatty acid composition of the major plasma lipid classes every ...
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28 TIC EFFECT OF MDIUM CHAIN TRIGLYCERIDE (ICT) DIET ON PLASMA LIPID LEVELS OF THE PREMATURE INFANT
The fatty acids of MCT are not deposited to any appreciable extent in fat stores and MCT diets diminish fat accretion in animals and probably in obese humans. No data are available in the newborn infant. Plasm...
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368 EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL NEPHROTOXICITY OF AMIKACIN AND TOBRAMYCIN IN PREMATURE INFANTS
The nephrotoxicity(NT) of aminoglycosides in premature infants is a still disputed problem. To assess and compare this possible side-effect of two widely used compounds, tobramycin (TB) and amikacin (AK) we de...
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624 GROWTH PROGRESS OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS FED WITH A SENIELEMEN- TAL, ADAPTED AND SPECIAL-FOR-PRETERN-INFANTS FORMULA
The ideal feeding for preterm infants, is not as yet a resolved problem. Our group has studied the variations of glucose, triglyceride, total protein, pH, BUN, osmolality plasma values, urine osmolality, growt...
