ALLMedicine™ Prematurity Center

Aug 16th, 2022 - The burden and health care utilization (HCU) of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in US infants aged <1 year across health care settings are not well characterized. We systematically reviewed studies of RSV and bronchiolitis published 2000-2021 (d...

Aug 16th, 2022 - Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection in US children, reduces quality of life (QOL) of children, their caregivers, and families. We conducted a systematic literature review in PubMed, EconLit, and ...

Aug 16th, 2022 - To describe (1) infant feeding practices during initial hospitalisation and up to 6 months corrected age (CA) in infants born late preterm with mothers intending to breastfeed, (2) the impact of early feeding practices on hospital length of stay a...

Aug 14th, 2022 - To evaluate vascular maturation of retina, axial, refractive and foveal development following anti-VEGF treatment including bevacizumab, ranibizumab and aflibercept in infants with treatment requiring ROP in long term. This retrospective chart rev...

Aug 14th, 2022 - This study investigated the outcomes of vitrectomy for stage 5 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) based on the International Classification of Retinopathy of Prematurity 3rd edition (ICROP 3), in which stage 5 ROP is divided into three subgroups. Fi...

Mar 4th, 2022 - Summary for Clinicians: Clinical Practice Guidelines for Outpatient Respiratory Management of Infants, Children, and Adolescents with Post-Prematurity Respiratory Disease.|2022|Eldredge LC,Levin JC,Tracy MC,Cristea AI,Baker CD,|therapy,

Dec 16th, 2021 - Background: Premature birth affects millions of neonates each year, placing them at risk for respiratory disease due to prematurity. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia is the most common chronic lung disease of infancy, but recent data suggest that even p...

Nov 16th, 2020 - • To assess the association between sonography-derived cervical length measurement and preterm birth. • To describe the various techniques to measure cervical length using sonography. • To review the natural history of the short cervix. • To revie...

Jun 28th, 2018 - Kidney transplantation (KT) is often considered to be the method best able to restore fertility in a woman with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, pregnancies in KT are not devoid of risks (in particular prematurity, small for gestational age ...

Feb 16th, 2018 - To review (1) the use of ultrasonographic-derived cervical length measurement in predicting preterm birth and (2) interventions associated with a short cervical length. Reduction in rates of prematurity and/or better identification of those at ris...

Aug 12th, 2022 - This prospective observational study aims to evaluate the hemodynamic changes provoked by anemia of prematurity and transfusion of packed red blood cells (RBCs). Nonanemic inpatient premature infants (Hematocrit>30%) will be compared with pretrans...

Aug 5th, 2022 - Surviving extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants are at risk of severe neurodevelopmental disability. Exosomes or extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) can mediate a variety of different effects, including s...

Aug 3rd, 2022 - Wisconsin leads the nation in the number of African American babies dying before their 1st birthday. These deaths are primarily due to complications of prematurity - babies being born too early and too soon. Additionally, Wisconsin's black infant ...

Jul 28th, 2022 - Prospective subjects will be randomized to the PTB prevention strategy (PTB Prevention arm) or to standard of care management (Control arm). Subjects randomized to the preterm birth prevention strategy will receive either routine standard of care ...

Jul 27th, 2022 - Threshold Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), observed in a fraction of extremely premature infants, is characterized by retinal vessel proliferation that threatens vision secondary to retinal detachment. Currently available treatments (ablative las...

Aug 15th, 2022 - Among children born prematurely, rates of school readiness were lower in comparison with rates for children born full term, new data indicate. In a Canadian cohort study that included more than 60,000 children, 35% of children born prematurely had...

Jun 9th, 2022 - Ferrara A, Hedderson MM, Zhu Y, et al. Perinatal complications in individuals in California with or without SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy.

Jun 1st, 2022 - Alexa Mieses Malchuk, MD, MPH I have become obsessed with the reality that the unprecedented national shortage of formula is keeping some families from adequately feeding their infants and young children. I am deeply concerned, both as a family me...

Feb 7th, 2022 - The potential effectiveness of using vaginal progesterone to prevent preterm birth in two different populations was the focus of a pair of studies with mixed results at the annual meeting sponsored by the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine on Feb.

Feb 4th, 2022 - In the country with one of the highest rates of preterm birth in the world, these early deliveries dropped by 24% with a simple intervention: chewing gum with xylitol during pregnancy. The decrease in preterm births was linked to improvement in or.