Background: The establishment of a balanced intestinal microflora which may protect against infection is desirable for the preterm infant. Objective: To investigate the effect of a preterm formula ...

2 Neonatal Unit, Rosie Hospital, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK 3 Department of Medical Microbiology, St George's Hospital, London, UK 4 Child Health, St George's, University of London, London ...

Dr Ulrike Nowak-Göttl, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Albert-Schweitzer- Str. 33, D - 48149 Münster, Germany. AIMS To determine to what extent the Arg 506 to ...

FSID Unit of Perinatal and Paediatric Epidemiology, Muspratt Building, Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK BACKGROUND Monozygotic twins are at greater risk of ...

Objective To study the organisms causing early and late onset neonatal sepsis, with special reference to multi-drug resistant gram negative bacilli, at two neonatal units (one urban, one rural) in ...

Dr B Glaser, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hadassah University Hospital, PO Box 12000, Jerusalem, Israel email: beng{at}cc.huji.ac.il Congenital hyperinsulinism (HI) is a clinically and ...

Objective To compare the risk of mortality and morbidity between outborn and propensity score-matched inborn extremely preterm neonates. Setting Multiple neonatal intensive care units (NICU) across ...

a Department of Neonatology, Tokyo Metropolitan Tsukiji Maternity Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, b Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Dr Bai-Horng Su, Division ...

Objective Reports of hyperinsulinism typically focus on infants managed by highly specialised services. However, neonates with hyperinsulinism are initially managed by neonatologists and often not ...

Correspondence to Dr Benjamin Cailes, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group and Vaccine Institute, St George’s University of London, London, SW11 0RU, UK; bcailes{at}sgul.ac.uk Objective To ...

Antibiotic stewardship programmes aim to optimise antimicrobial use to prevent the emergence of resistance species and protect patients from the side effects of unnecessary medication. The high ...

Background and purpose The anatomy of the deep venous system plays an important role in the pathogenesis of brain lesions in the preterm brain as shown by different histological studies. The aims of ...