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Strategies for preventing bronchopulmonary dysplasiaLinda J Van Marter
Children s Hospital and Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 17:174-80. 2005..The purpose of this review is to highlight recent reports of a number of potential treatments intended to prevent BPD and to discuss the controversies surrounding preventive strategies...
Antenatal antecedents of a small head circumference at age 24-months post-term equivalent in a sample of infants born before the 28th post-menstrual weekAlan Leviton
Department of Neurology, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Early Hum Dev 86:515-21. 2010..Little is known about the antecedents of microcephaly in early childhood among children born at extremely low gestational age...
The clustering of disorders in infants born before the 28th week of gestationAlan Leviton
Neurology Department, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Acta Paediatr 99:1795-800. 2010..To see whether disorders prevalent in infants born extremely preterm cluster...
Blood protein concentrations in the first two postnatal weeks associated with early postnatal blood gas derangements among infants born before the 28th week of gestation. The ELGAN StudyAlan Leviton
Department of Neurology, Children s Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cytokine 56:392-8. 2011..To explore the relationships between blood gas derangements and blood concentrations of inflammation-related proteins shortly after preterm birth...
Early blood gas abnormalities and the preterm brainAlan Leviton
Neuroepidemiology Unit, Neurology Department, Children s Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 5724, USA
Am J Epidemiol 172:907-16. 2010..Findings suggest that individual blood gas derangements do not increase brain damage risk. Rather, the multiple derangements associated with indicators of brain damage might be indicators of immaturity/vulnerability and illness severity...
Does bronchopulmonary dysplasia contribute to the occurrence of cerebral palsy among infants born before 28 weeks of gestation?Linda J Van Marter
Newborn Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 96:F20-9. 2011..To evaluate the relationships among cerebral palsy (CP) phenotypes and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) severity and, in the process, to generate hypotheses regarding causal pathways linking BPD to CP...
Antenatal glucocorticoids increase early total thyroxine levels in premature infantsCamilia R Martin
Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Newborn Medicine, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Biol Neonate 87:273-80. 2005..It is standard obstetrical practice to offer antenatal glucocorticoids to pregnant women with threatened preterm delivery. Few studies have investigated the effect of antenatal glucocorticoids on neonatal thyroid function...
Systemic hypotension and white-matter damage in preterm infantsOlaf Dammann
Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 44:82-90. 2002..In sum, these results do not support the hypothesis that systemic hypotension contributes to echolucency among preterm infants...
Presumed and definite bacteremia in extremely low gestational age newbornsSonal Patel
Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Acta Paediatr 100:36-41. 2011..To explore risk patterns for presumed and definite, early and late neonatal bacteremia...
Progress in discovery and evaluation of treatments to prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasiaLinda J Van Marter
Children s Hospital, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Biol Neonate 89:303-12. 2006..To date, clinical trials have failed to demonstrate a substantial benefit of a single treatment or preventive strategy for BPD...
Risk of cranial ultrasound abnormalities in very-low-birth-weight infants conceived with assisted reproductive techniquesJane E Stewart
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Perinatol 22:37-45. 2002..CONCLUSION: VLBW infants conceived with ART do not appear to be at increased risk of cranial ultrasound abnormalities. Likewise, twins and triplets were not at increased risk of these abnormalities...
Chorioamnionitis, mechanical ventilation, and postnatal sepsis as modulators of chronic lung disease in preterm infantsLinda J Van Marter
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Pediatr 140:171-6. 2002....
Epidemiology of bronchopulmonary dysplasiaLinda J Van Marter
Children s Hospital and Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Semin Fetal Neonatal Med 14:358-66. 2009....
Fetal placental thrombosis and neonatal implicationsPia Wintermark
Division of Newborn Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Perinatol 27:251-6. 2010..Severe fetal placental vascular lesions seem to be a predisposing factor for some adverse neonatal outcomes. We present these two cases with a brief review of the literature...
Perturbation of gene expression of the chromatin remodeling pathway in premature newborns at risk for bronchopulmonary dysplasiaJennifer Cohen
Children s Hospital, Boston, Division of Newborn Medicine, Boston, Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Genome Biol 8:R210. 2007..Sections of umbilical cord were obtained at birth from 20 infants who later developed BPD and from 34 of their peers who did not develop BPD...
Maternal antenatal complications and the risk of neonatal cerebral white matter damage and later cerebral palsy in children born at an extremely low gestational ageThomas F McElrath
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 170:819-28. 2009....
Urine bombesin-like peptide elevation precedes clinical evidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasiaAnne Cullen
Children's Hospital, Department of Pathology, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 165:1093-7. 2002..Utilizing urine bombesin-like peptide for screening might permit early therapeutic interventions to reduce disease progression and could provide a target for new preventive therapies...
Colonization of second-trimester placenta parenchymaAndrew B Onderdonk
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 199:52.e1-52.e10. 2008..The overtly healthy, nonpregnant uterus harbors bacteria, Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma. The extent of colonization remains elusive, as are relationships between isolated microorganisms, preterm labor and fetal inflammation...
Pregnancy disorders that lead to delivery before the 28th week of gestation: an epidemiologic approach to classificationT F McElrath
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:980-9. 2008..Disorders leading to preterm delivery may be separated into two groups: those associated with intrauterine inflammation and those associated with aberrations of placentation...
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia is not associated with ultrasound-defined cerebral white matter damage in preterm newbornsOlaf Dammann
Department of Obstetrics, Prenatal Medicine and Gynecology, Hannover Medical School, 30623 Hannover, Germany
Pediatr Res 55:319-25. 2004..Confounding does not seem to account for this lack of association between WMD and BPD. In conclusion, our findings do not support the hypothesis that BPD contributes to the occurrence of sonographically defined WMD...
Selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors and risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newbornChristina D Chambers
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92103, USA
N Engl J Med 354:579-87. 2006..We performed a case-control study to assess whether PPHN is associated with exposure to SSRIs during late pregnancy...
Factors associated with treatment for hypotension in extremely low gestational age newborns during the first postnatal weekMatthew Laughon
School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Pediatrics 119:273-80. 2007....
