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Brain Injury In Infants May Increase Risk of Psychiatric Disorders
According to Health Imaging, an infant born prematurely with a brain injury viewable on a neonatal ultrasound may be at higher risk for developing various psychiatric disorders, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. A study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry found that preterm infants face higher risks of brain injury due to increased vascular and cellular vulnerabilities of the laminar and fetal brain. The researchers studied associations between perinatal brain injury and motor and cognitive deficits. The study followed 1.105 preterm participants who underwent multiple neonatal ultrasounds. The low-birth-weight participants were also followed as part of the Neonatal Brain Hemorrhage Study, with follow-up lasting 16 years and including 458 eligible participants who were evaluated according to the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for children-IV. The DISC-IVP found that many participants showed a threshold of greater than 3 percent within oppositional defiant disorder, specific phobias, ADHD and social phobias. Relative to…
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Withdrawal of Treatment Top Cause of Death in NICU
According to UPI, the primary cause of infant death in a neonatal intensive care unit is withdrawing support and withholding lifesaving measures, say U.S. researchers. Dr. Julie Weiner of Children’s Mercy Hospital and colleagues examined medical records of 414 infants who died from January 1999 to December 2008 at a regional neonatal intensive care unit. The study found that most U.S. childhood deaths occur during the neonatal period and most neonatal deaths are caused by a decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining measures. Of the 414 infant deaths studied, 45 percent were due to major birth defects. Seventeen percent of these infants were very preterm and 35 percent of deaths were of very preterm births without congenital birth defects or brain injury, said the study. The study published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine found that during the 10-year period, 61.6 percent of infant deaths followed withdrawal of…
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IVF ‘Vanishing Twin’ Phenomenon Linked with Birth Defects
According to Newswise, the University of Adelaide researchers have found a link between the loss of a twin during early pregnancy and the increased risk of birth defects in multiple IVF pregnancies. The annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology heard from Profressor Michael Davies how the vanishing twin phenomenon has been linked to a nearly two-fold increased risk of birth defects in the surviving baby, along with a threefold increase in multiple birth defects. The vanishing twin phenomenon occurs when there are fewer babies born than detected in early pregnancy by ultrasound, often reducing from twins to a single baby born. The University of Adelaide’s Research Centre for the Early Origins of Health and Disease said its findings have a potential of advancing the origins of congenital malformation after infertility treatment, and possibly in natural pregnancies. The researchers say it is easier to study women…
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