Tag: Premature Birth
Day Care Tied to Morbidity in Children Born Preterm With BPD
ED visits, systemic steroid use, chronic respiratory symptoms more likely for children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia who attend day care
Phthalate Exposure in Pregnancy Tied to Preterm Delivery Risk
Exposure tied to 12 to 16 percent increased risk
Successful Intubations Up With Nasal High-Flow Therapy in Neonates
Higher rate of successful intubation on the first try, without physiological instability in the infant, seen with use of nasal high-flow therapy
Brain Anomalies ID’d on qMRI in Adolescents Born Extremely Preterm
Atypically developing versus neurotypically developing girls had lower normalized proton density, while boys had longer T1 in white matter
Nirsevimab Protects Against RSV in Late-Preterm, Term Infants
Single injection administered before RSV season protects from medically attended RSV-associated lower respiratory tract infection
Endometriosis Not Tied to Preterm Delivery
Findings similar regardless of endometriosis disease phenotype
Fertility Treatment Tied to Higher Risk for Preterm Birth
Findings seen among more than 14 million live, singleton births
More Extremely Preterm Infants Are Surviving to Discharge
Of those born before 27 weeks, 29.3 and 21.2 percent had moderate and severe neurodevelopmental impairment, respectively
ATS Issues Guidance for Managing Postprematurity Respiratory Disease
Recommendations address the outpatient management of postprematurity respiratory disease in infants, children, and adolescents
Preterm Delivery May Up Risk for Chronic Hypertension in Women
Risk for hypertension increased within first 10 years after delivery and remained elevated at least 40 years later