Metabolic bone disease of prematurity (MBDP) is characterised by skeletal demineralisation, and in severe cases it can result in fragility fractures of long bones and ribs during routine handling.

Context In spontaneously breathing preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) receiving nasal continuous positive airway pressure, a method of less invasive surfactant administration ...

BACKGROUND Ventricular outputs cannot be used to assess systemic blood flow in preterm infants because they are confounded by shunts through the ductus arteriosus and atrial septum. However, flow ...

2 Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 3 Department of Psychology and Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK 4 University Division ...

Fetal Medicine Research Unit, University of Bristol, Department of Obstetrics, St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol BS2 8EG Professor Peter Soothill. If you wish to reuse ...

BACKGROUND Slight morphological asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres has been observed in fetal and newborn brains. In adults, sex differences in hemispheric asymmetry have also been reported.

Objectives To assess the risk of significant adverse events in premature infants receiving the novel 4-component group B meningococcal vaccine (4CMenB) with their routine immunisations at 2 months of ...

Objective To quantify trends in caffeine use in infants born at <32 weeks’ gestational age (GA), and to investigate the effects of early vs late caffeine on neonatal outcomes. Study design ...

Correspondence to Dr Hanneke IJsselstijn, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Erasmus MC–Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam 3015 GJ, The Netherlands; h.ijsselstijn{at}erasmusmc.nl Objectives To ...

Objective Since therapeutic hypothermia became standard care for neonatal hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE), even fewer infants die or have disability at 18-month assessment than in the clinical ...

1 Centre for Paediatric and Adolescent Gastroenterology, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide, Australia 2 Department of Neonatal Medicine, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide ...

Aicardi-Goutières syndrome as a rare cause of neonatal intracranial calcifications ...