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Transient tachypnea of the newborn occurs in approximately 1 in 100 preterm infants and 3.6–5.7 per 1000 term infants. It is most common in infants born by caesarian section without a trial of labor after 35 weeks of gestation. Male infants and infants with an umbilical cord prolapse or perinatal asphyxia are at higher risk.
Plethora in the newborn, also known as polycythemia of neonates is an increase in the blood volume due in large part to the late clamping of the umbilical cord. [5] This can cause transient tachypnea of the newborn a temporary breathing problem.
Neonatal sepsis of the newborn is an infection that has spread through the entire body. The inflammatory response to this systematic infection can be as serious as the infection itself. [26] In infants that weigh under 1500 g, sepsis is the most common cause of death. Three to four percent of infants per 1000 births contract sepsis.
A newborn baby is recovering after a 3-lb. tumor was removed from her belly. Dave and Keenan Sanders noticed swelling in their six-week-old daughter Leighton's abdomen. They initially wrote it off ...
Neonatal tetanus (trismus nascentium) is a form of generalised tetanus that occurs in newborns. Infants who have not acquired passive immunity from an immunized mother are at risk. It usually occurs through infection of the unhealed umbilical stump, particularly when the stump is cut with a non-sterile instrument.
Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn. It is a hospital -based specialty and is usually practised in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
Harlequin color change is a cutaneous condition seen in newborn babies characterized by momentary red color changes of half the child, sharply demarcated at the body's midline. This transient change occurs in approximately 10% of healthy newborns. [1] It is seen usually between two and five days of birth.
sclerema neonatorum is typically diagnosed clinically when a critically sick newborn exhibits diffuse skin hardening. The afflicted skin cannot be pitted, folded, or pinched because it is attached to the underlying tissue. For histopathologic confirmation, a skin biopsy could be helpful if the diagnosis is uncertain. [4]