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Naema Hamouda, Yosra AboEL-Azm, Kholoud Elsamman, Soha Nabil, Mohammed Tarek, Fatma Elzahraa Wasia, Ahmed Mostafa Amin, Ahmed Elshahat, Nourhan hassan, Ammar Mektebi, Abdelazem Khaled, Hatim Nasruldin ...
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Trial of aerosolised surfactant for preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome

Correspondence to Dr David Durand, Neonatology, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA 94752, USA; ddurand53{at}gmail.com Objective To evaluate the safety of an aerosolised surfactant, ...
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Reference ranges for the linear dimensions of the intracranial ventricles in preterm neonates

Division of Neonatal Services, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne 3053, Australia Dr M W Davies, Perinatal Research Centre, The Royal Women's Hospital, Bowen Bridge Road, Herston, Brisbane, QLD 4029, ...
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The EPICure study: growth and associated problems in children born at 25 weeks of gestational age or less

Aim: To define growth outcomes of a geographically defined population of extremely preterm babies. Population: The EPICure study identified all surviving children in the United Kingdom and Ireland ...
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Online clinical tool to estimate risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in extremely preterm infants

Objective Develop an online estimator that accurately predicts bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) severity or death using readily-available demographic and clinical data. Design Retrospective analysis ...
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A structured review of the recent literature on the economic consequences of preterm birth

1 National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford (Old Road Campus), Headington, Oxford, UK 2 Health Economics Research Centre, Department of Public Health, ...
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Impact of standardised feeding regimens on incidence of neonatal necrotising enterocolitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

1 Department of Neonatal Paediatrics, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 2 Department of Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, Telethon ...
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Gut microbial colonisation in premature neonates predicts neonatal sepsis

1 Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA 2 Computational Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA 3 Division of Infectious ...
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Combined EEG, aEEG and MRI biomarkers in the neonatal period to predict neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants with neonatal encephalopathy: a diagnostic test accuracy systematic review and Bayesian ...
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Clinical evaluation of a novel adaptive algorithm for automated control of oxygen therapy in preterm infants on non-invasive respiratory support

4 School of Engineering and ICT, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 5 Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Correspondence to ...
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Oral versus intravenous ibuprofen for patent ductus arteriosus closure: a randomised controlled trial in extremely low birthweight infants

Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of oral versus intravenous ibuprofen for the pharmacological closure of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in less mature preterm infants. Design Prospective, ...
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The effects of noise on preterm infants in the NICU

1 Department of Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, ...