The survival of preterm infants has steadily improved thanks to advances in perinatal and
neonatal intensive clinical care. The focus is now on finding ways to improve morbidities …

Objective To evaluate the risk of spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB) with or without universal
transvaginal ultrasound (TVU) cervical length (CL) screening at the time of mid-trimester …

Antenatal hypoxia-ischaemia (HI) in preterm fetal sheep can trigger delayed evolution of
severe, cystic white matter injury (WMI), in a similar timecourse to WMI in preterm infants. We …

Problem To assess the potential of five inflammatory and six angiogenic/antiangiogenic
plasma proteins for predicting imminent spontaneous preterm delivery (SPTD;≤ 14 days of …

Introduction: A large proportion of postoperative mortality after pediatric surgery occurs
among neonates with specific high-risk diagnoses. The extent to which there is hospital …

Hypothesis Increased social distancing was associated with a lower incidence of extremely
preterm live births (EPLB) during the initial COVID-19 pandemic period. Study design …

Background Characterizing the spatial distribution of PM2. 5 species concentrations is
challenging due to the geographic sparsity of the stationary monitoring network. Recent …

Background Term and late preterm infants are not routinely referred to high-risk infant follow-
up programs at neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) discharge. We aimed to identify NICU …

Introduction and methods In this PRISMA-compliant systematic review, we identify and
synthesize the findings of research in which neuroimaging and assessments of achievement …

Across the globe, approximately one in 10 babies are born preterm, that is, before 37 weeks
of a typical 40 weeks of gestation. Up to 50% of preterm born infants develop brain injury …