Using record linkage we have designed the first complete population e-cohort in the UK: ‘Wales Electronic Cohort for Children’ (WECC) to investigate the broadest possible range of social and ...

Objective In the Netherlands, the threshold for offering active treatment for spontaneous birth was lowered from 25+0 to 24+0 weeks’ gestation in 2010. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of ...

Circulating testosterone concentrations in infants measured by a direct chemiluminescent immunoassay (Bayer ADVIA Centaur) were compared with those measured by a traditional radioimmunoassay using ...

Neonatal thrombocytopenia is a common clinical problem. Thrombocytopenia presenting in the first 72 hours of life is usually secondary to placental insufficiency and caused by reduced platelet ...

Sandra Terroba-Seara, Ignacio Oulego-Erroz, Daniel Palanca-Arias, Zenaida Galve-Pradel, Sara Delgado-Nicolás, Alicia Pérez-Pérez, Jorge Rodríguez-Ozcoidi, Ana Lavilla-Oíz, María Carmen Bravo, Leticia ...

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a continuum which can affect all left sided cardiac structures, from the mitral valve to the aortic arch. Since Norwood’s first description of surgical ...

Background Neonatal research evaluates many different outcomes using multiple measures. This can prevent synthesis of trial results in meta-analyses, and selected outcomes may not be relevant to ...

Objectives To determine the incidence of and risk factors for neonatal unit admission, intrapartum stillbirth or neonatal death without admission, and describe outcomes, in babies born in an alongside ...

Objective To determine if preterm birth is associated with adaptation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis and whether HPA axis programming relates to the degree of prematurity (defined as ...

Jacqueline Muts, Juliette I A Lukowski, Jos W R Twisk, Anne Schoonderwoerd, Johannes B van Goudoever, Britt J van Keulen, Chris H P Van Den Akker ...

Introduction The management of low blood flow states in premature infants is complex. However, in the neonatal field, there remains a drive to oversimplify both the diagnosis of the condition and its ...

Objective To evaluate the accuracy of neonatal MRI and general movements assessment (GMA) in predicting neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE). Design ...