The creatinine clearance rate, an index of glomerular filtration rate, has been reported to develop according to gestational and postnatal age. The purpose of this study is to examine changes in creatinine clearance with gestational age and postnatal age in preterm and full term healthy neonates. The results were as follows: 1) The creatinine clearance rate increased according to gestational age. 2) The most in creament of creatinine... |
The concentration of creatinine, one of the simple and commonly used indices of glomerular filtration rate in children and adults, has been reported to be appreciably raised and variable during the first month of life. This study examined the effect of gestational age(G.A.) on the postnatal changes of creatinine in preterm and full-term neonates. The results were as follows; 1) The mean... |
Intraventricular hemorrhage is one of the most important neurologic lesion of the premature neonates. Total 23 cases of intraventricular hemorrhage were studied prospectively from March, 1984 to August, 1985 and their medical records were analyzed. The results were as follows: 1) The incidence of intraventricular hemorrhage was 13.8% and that of premature neonate born weighing less than 1.50kg and at less than... |
To evaluate the influence of HBV to fetus, authors studied 817 pregnant women and neonates who were admitted to delivery room of Keimyung University Dongsan medical center from 1882 to 1984. The results were as follows; 1) Percent of HBsAg positive mother was 6.8% (50/817) and child bearing age was 7.8% (72/917). Percent of Anti-HBs positive was 33.9% and... |
Clinical features of 85 neonates who treated with assisted ventilation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Seoul National University Hospital from April ’80 to Dec. 5 84 were analyzed with special respect to mechanical aids. The results were as follows; 1)According to diagnostic categories, 56 cases (66%) were hyaline membrane disease (HMD), 14 cases (16%) were postasphyxia syndrome (PAS), 9 cases... |
Neonatal jaundice is probably the most frequently encountered diagnostic and therapeutic problem in the newborn, but its accurate assessment still requires a measurement of the serum bilirubin concentration. To date, repetitive and continuing blood sampling has been the only acceptable methodology available for monitoring the jaundiced newborn infant. This technique serves as a source of discomfort and of serious infection(Lilien... |
It has been established that hepatitis B virus may be transmitted from mothers to infants in the perinatal period. A study was undertaken to identify HBsAg in neonates born to mothers who were asymptomatic carriers of HBsAg. From Jan. 1 ’83 to June 30 ’84, total 4,044 cases of pregnant women and 131 babies were studied for serologic markers of hepatitis... |
A 26 days old male with petechiae, ecchymoses and hepatosplenomegaly was admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, at In Cheon Gil Hospital on Jnue, 1983. Peripheral blood smear and bone marrow studies revealed acute lymphocytic leukemia. Autopsy findings revealed that abundant lymphoblastic leukemic cell infiltrated in bone marrow, liver, spleen, kidney and other organs in male newborn infant who died 29 days after birth. And... |
A clinical study of neonatal skin was carried out from March 1983 to November 1983. This study sought to investigate the incidence and clinical features of neonatal skin abnormalities. 729 neonates of Seoul National University Hospital were included in this study and the results can be summarized as follows; 1) Mongolian spots were observed in 80.2%, occuring most frequently in the sacral area. 2) Salmon patches... |
During the period from Jan. 1982 to July 1983, we experienced 54 cases of neonatal enteritis caused by Campylobacter fetus subspecies jejuni at the newborn nursery, Hanyang University Hospital. All Cases were under 3 weeks of age and no significant difference was seen in sex ratio. Notable clinical symptoms and signs in order of frequency were diarrhea, fever, jaundice, diminished... |
From July 1980 to June 1983, total 468 cases of infants of congenital heart disease were studied, who needed intensive care in infancy at Seoul National University Hospital. 1)Among 468 cases, 285 cases were diagnosed by cardiac catheterization or cardiac surgery and the other 183 cases by only clinical base. 2)Relative frequencies of these individual anomalies were in order of... |
A statiscal study on 18,679 newborns who were born in pediatric department of ST. MARY’S Hospital, ST. PAUUS Hospital, Kang-Nam ST. MARY*S Hospital and OUR LADY OF MERCY Hospital in Catholic Medical College from January, 1980 to December, 1982 was performed. Authors studied the mortality rate by birth weight, gestational period, sex, time after birth, Apgar score, mode of delivery... |
The blood glucose response to a constant glucose infusion were measured in 36 low birth weight infants with birth weight 950 to 2,000 gm. The study includes 27 control premature infants and 9 stressed premature infants who had respiratory distress. Glucose values were similar in both the control and stressed groups in the cord and preinfusion samples. In the first postinfusion sample, hyperglycemia was... |
Normal ECG standards of 700 healthy neonates, who were born at Hanyang University Hospital from August 1981 to April 1982, were determined, by authors, according to the following items : Heart rate, Frontal plane QRS axis angle, PR interva. QRS duration, QT interval, P wave duration, P wave amplitude, S wave amplitude, Ventricular activation time(VAT), and QRS transitional zone in... |
Riboflavin in unstable in light and has a maximum absorption at 450nm. A study was designed to determine whether riboflavin deficiency developed in neonate who received phototherapy with eight day light bulbs for hyperbilirubinemia and to get normal value of activity coefficient of erythrocyte glutathione reductase in neonate. Twenty-seven infants who received phototherapy were investigated. Thirth-eight normal infants without phototherapy... |
A clinical and hematological observation was performed on 136 newborn infants who were admitted to dept. of Pediatrics of Chosun University Hospital from Junly, 1976 to June, 1980 and were diagnosed of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. The following results were obtained 1) The incidence of hyperbilirubinemia in male (64.0%) was more than female. 2) The highest monthly incidence was seen in June... |