Hearing supports early communication, social connection, feeding interactions, and cognitive development. When permanent hearing loss is present at birth,…
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Preeclampsia prevention: choosing aspirin dose and timing
Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific hypertensive disorder that can affect the placenta, maternal organs, and fetal growth. It may appear after 20 weeks of…
Neonatal Spontaneous Intestinal Perforation: Surgical vs Medical Management
Neonatal spontaneous intestinal perforation (SIP) is a serious gastrointestinal emergency that usually affects extremely premature or very low-birth-weight…
Fetal Intrauterine Transfusion for Anemia: Technique and Outcomes
Fetal anemia can progress silently while causing high-output cardiac failure, hydrops fetalis, neurological injury, or fetal death. Intrauterine transfusion…
Maternal Vitamin D and the Foundations of Bone Health
Maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy has become an important subject in perinatal medicine because fetal skeletal development depends on a continuous…
Umbilical Cord Blood Banking: Choosing The Right Option
Umbilical cord blood contains blood-forming stem cells that can rebuild the bone marrow and immune system after treatment for certain serious diseases.…
Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus: Prophylaxis and Acyclovir Treatment
Neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection is uncommon, yet it can progress rapidly and cause permanent neurological injury or death. The two principal…
Maternal COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnancy: Safety and Efficacy
Pregnancy changes the immune, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems, making respiratory infections clinically important for both the mother and the…
Neonatal bacterial meningitis: lumbar puncture and empiric therapy
Neonatal bacterial meningitis is a time-critical infection in which early recognition, cerebrospinal fluid analysis, and correctly selected antibiotics can…
Fetal cardiac arrhythmias: transplacental treatment options
Fetal cardiac rhythm disorders can change rapidly, yet many are detectable before birth and treatable through medication given to the pregnant patient. The…
