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| Koenraad Jan SmetsSummaryAffiliation: Ghent University Country: Belgium Publications
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Implementation and results of bedside hearing screening with automated auditory brainstem response in the neonatal intensive care unitKoenraad Smets
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium
Acta Paediatr 101:e392-8. 2012..To evaluate implementation and results of neonatal hearing screening with automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) by bedside nurses in a single-centre neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)...
Treatment of cranial epidural hematoma in a neonate by needle aspiration of a communicating cephalhematomaKoenraad Jan Smets
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, Ghent, Belgium
Eur J Pediatr 169:617-9. 2010..In the absence of neurological signs or symptoms, aspirating a cephalhematoma to evacuate the communicating epidural hematoma in a newborn infant may avoid more invasive surgical intervention...
Detection of enteroviral RNA on Guthrie card dried blood of a neonate with fatal Coxsackie B3 myocarditis on day 17Koenraad Smets
Department of Neonatology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, B 9000 Gent, Belgium
J Clin Virol 42:207-10. 2008..This is the first report on the detection of enteroviral RNA in Guthrie card dried blood using reverse-transcriptase PCR. Materials and methods used are described in detail...
X-linked myotubular myopathy and chylothoraxKoenraad Smets
Department of Neonatology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Neuromuscul Disord 18:183-4. 2008..As chylothorax could not be attributed to any evident condition in this child, perhaps it may be added to the clinical spectrum of X-linked myotubular myopathy...
Selecting neonates with congenital cytomegalovirus infection for ganciclovir therapyKoenraad Smets
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
Eur J Pediatr 165:885-90. 2006..There is scientific data to help clinicians in selecting a subgroup of infants that is at higher risk of hearing deterioration and therefore might benefit the most from ganciclovir therapy...
Maternal vitamin A deficiency and neonatal microphthalmia: complications of biliopancreatic diversion?Koenraad Jan Smets
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, Gent, 9000, Belgium
Eur J Pediatr 165:502-4. 2006..We conclude that nutritional deficiencies may cause a spectrum of fetal malformations. As the effect of BPD relies on malabsorption, fetal risk should be considered before BPD is offered to morbid obese women of childbearing age...
Ergotamine as a possible cause of Möbius sequence: additional clinical observationKoenraad Smets
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
J Child Neurol 19:398. 2004..Ergotamine can cause vasospasm and a prolonged and marked increase in uterine tone. This is the second report suggesting a relation between maternal ingestion of ergotamine in early pregnancy and subsequent Möbius sequence in a child...
Neonatal pulmonary interstitial glycogen accumulation disorderKoenraad Smets
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 1 B1, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Eur J Pediatr 163:408-9. 2004
Phototherapy-mediated syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone in an in utero selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-exposed newborn infantPiet Vanhaesebrouck
Department of Neonatology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Pediatrics 115:e508-11. 2005..As phototherapy is used frequently in jaundiced neonates and an apparently increasing number of infants are born to mothers who take SSRIs, serotonin toxicity in neonates deserves increased attention...
Transplacental passage of a nonionic contrast agentPiet Vanhaesebrouck
Department of Neonatology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Eur J Pediatr 164:408-10. 2005..Therefore the perinatal safety of these diagnostic agents should at least be questioned...
The EPIBEL study: outcomes to discharge from hospital for extremely preterm infants in BelgiumPiet Vanhaesebrouck
Department of Neonatology, University Hospital Ghent, De Pintelaan 185 B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Pediatrics 114:663-75. 2004..To determine mortality and morbidity at discharge from the hospital of a large population-based cohort of infants who were born at <or=26 weeks' gestation...
Perinatal/neonatal case presentation: unexpected severe respiratory insufficiency in a newborn with Holt-Oram SyndromeKoenraad Smets
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium
J Perinatol 25:745-6. 2005..We report a second case of a newborn with Holt-Oram syndrome who developed severe respiratory insufficiency shortly after birth. We discuss possible genetic links between abnormal pulmonary morphogenesis and Holt-Oram syndrome...
