EVALUATION OF THYROID PROFILE OF TERM AND PRETERM NEONATES AT 1ST AND 4TH WEEK AFTER BIRTH: A HOSPITAL BASED OBSERVATIONAL STUDY.

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-80
Author(s):  
Sk Sahabuddin ◽  
Mukut Banerjee ◽  
Shinjini Chakraborty ◽  
Sumanta Laha ◽  
Tarak Nath Ghosh

Objective: st th To evaluate the thyroid prole(T4,FT4 and TSH) in term and preterm neonates at 1 week after birth and during follow up at 4 week. Material and Method: This prospective observational hospital based study was conducted with 30 term(>37 completed week) and 30 preterm neonates(from 28 to 36 week 6days) with exclusion criteria of maternal thyroid disease or neonates with co-morbidity or signicant congenital st th anomalies. Serum T4,FT4 and TSH level were measured at 1 week and 4 week of postnatal age and results are analysed statistically. Results: st th We found TSH was elevated more in preterm than in term neonates in the 1 week, which decreased in both the groups at the 4 week . T4 st th and FT4 were signicantly higher in the term neonates than in preterm in the 1 week. During follow up in the 4 week, T4 and FT4 decreases in st term and increases in preterm so that the FT4 level almost matches in both the group at the end of 1 month. Conclusion: Our study shows that T4, FT4 and TSH has a signicant relationship with gestational age. Premature infants are born with higher th levels of TSH and lower levels of FT4 and T4 than term, which almost normalizes at 4 week.

2010 ◽  
Vol 95 (11) ◽  
pp. 4898-4908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Delahunty ◽  
Shona Falconer ◽  
Robert Hume ◽  
Lesley Jackson ◽  
Paula Midgley ◽  
...  

Context: Transient hypothyroxinemia is the commonest thyroid dysfunction of premature infants, and recent studies have found adverse associations with neurodevelopment. The validity of these associations is unclear because the studies adjusted for a differing range of factors likely to influence neurodevelopment. Objective: The aim was to describe the association of transient hypothyroxinemia with neurodevelopment at 5.5 yr corrected age. Design: We conducted a follow-up study of a cohort of infants born in Scotland from 1999 to 2001 ≤34 wk gestation. Main Outcome Measures: We measured scores on the McCarthy scale adjusted for 26 influences of neurodevelopment including parental intellect, home environment, breast or formula fed, growth retardation, and use of postnatal drugs. Results: A total of 442 infants ≤34 wk gestation who had serum T4 measurements on postnatal d 7, 14, or 28 and 100 term infants who had serum T4 measured in cord blood were followed up at 5.5 yr. Infants with hypothyroxinemia (T4 level ≤ 10th percentile on d 7, 14, or 28 corrected for gestational age) scored significantly lower than euthyroid infants (T4 level greater than the 10th percentile and less than the 90th percentile on all days) on all McCarthy scales, except the quantitative. After adjustment for confounders of neurodevelopment, hypothyroxinemic infants scored significantly lower than euthyroid infants on the general cognitive and verbal scales. Conclusions: Our findings do not support the view that the hypothyroxinemic state, in the context of this analysis, is harmless in preterm infants. Many factors contribute both to the etiology of hypothyroxinemia and neurodevelopment; strategies for correction of hypothyroxinemia should acknowledge its complex etiology and not rely solely on one approach.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 1519
Author(s):  
Gunjanpreet Kaur ◽  
Sunita Arora ◽  
Kamalpreet Singh ◽  
Mandeep Singh ◽  
Arshpreet Kaur

Background: The objectives of this study was to study the prevalence of thyroid disorders in high risk neonatal populations and to study association of maternal thyroid dysfunction with neonatal thyroid problems and outcome.Methods: This was an observational study, conducted in NICU at Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Amritsar. The study included neonates born to mothers with thyroid disorder or with clinical features suggestive of thyroid dysfunction. Neonates with history of maternal thyroid dysfunction were screened at 72 to 96 hrs of postnatal age. Those with TSH >10 mIU/L or free T4 <1.1 ng /ml were followed up after two weeks. The neonates with clinical features suggestive of thyroid dysfunction were screened at presentation and those with abnormal thyroid profile were followed up after two weeks. Results obtained were statistically analyzed using SPSS 17.0 software.Results: Out of 260 neonates screened, 208 neonates were born to mothers with hypothyroidism, 6 neonates had increased levels of TSH during first week which normalised on follow up during third week. One neonate born to hyperthyroid mother, showed increased TSH levels during first week and 2nd week which declined to normal level on follow up at 3rd week. Out of 51 neonates with clinical features suggestive of thyroid dysfunction, born to euthyroid mothers, 3 neonates had increased levels of TSH on presentation which normalised on further follow up. Thus, majority of high risk neonates at birth show transient hypothyroidism.Conclusions: None of the neonate was labelled as hypothyroid, all the 10 neonates showed transient hyperthyrotropinemia.


Blood ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 87 (9) ◽  
pp. 3929-3933 ◽  
Author(s):  
LT McEvoy ◽  
H Zakem-Cloud ◽  
MF Tosi

Neonatal neutrophils (PMN) exhibit a well-documented defect in chemotaxis that is associated with several abnormalities of PMN structure and function, including deficient surface expression of CR3 (CD11b/CD18), a critical adhesion molecule, on chemoattractant- activated PMN. We recently documented that deficient surface expression of CR3 on stimulated neonatal PMN is due principally to a deficiency in total cell content of CR3. In the current studies, we tested the hypothesis that total cell CR3 content of PMN is even more profoundly deficient in premature infants and that PMN CR3 content is directly related to gestational age. A sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for CR3 showed that PMN lysates from term neonates ( > or = 37 weeks gestation) contain about 60% of adult PMN levels of CR3, whereas PMN from premature infants (range of 27 to 36 weeks gestation) contained a mean of about 30%, ranging from 10% to 48% (P < .001 for term [n = 6] v premature [n = 11] by unpaired t-test). When the relationship between total cell CR3 and gestational age (n = 15) was analyzed, the correlation coefficient was .94 by linear regression, and the Spearman rank correlation was significant with P < .001. PMN content of LFA-1 (CD11a/CD18) was similarly measured for 14 neonates. Term neonates were equivalent to adults in LFA-1 content of their PMN (99.4% +/- 3.2% of paired adult values, n = 6), whereas prematures (28 to 36 weeks gestation) were deficient, overall (69.1% +/- 10.4%, n = 8, P = .035). Below 35 weeks gestation, LFA-1 values ranged from 26% to 65% of paired adult control values, but no infant of > or = 35 weeks gestation had PMN LFA-1 content that was less than 85% of its adult control. We concluded that CR3 total cell content is more profoundly deficient in premature than in term neonates, that at birth there is a direct relationship between PMN CR3 content and gestational age, and that LFA-1 is deficient only in prematures less than 35 weeks of gestational age. Below 30 weeks gestation, CR3 content of PMN approached that seen in genetic deficiency of the CD18 family of leukocyte integrins, or type 1 leukocyte adhesion deficiency, underscoring the severity of this host impairment in very early preterm neonates.


2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (S 01) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Cremer ◽  
K. Jost ◽  
S. Schulzke ◽  
P. Weber ◽  
A. Datta

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-228
Author(s):  
Eliza B. Szymanek ◽  
Erin M. Miller ◽  
Amy N. Weart ◽  
Jamie B. Morris ◽  
Donald L. Goss

2014 ◽  
Vol 99 (Suppl 2) ◽  
pp. A520.2-A520
Author(s):  
L Charafeddine ◽  
R El Hage ◽  
H Tamim ◽  
L Akouri-Dirani ◽  
D Sinno

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Negeso Gebeyehu Gejo ◽  
Melaku Tesfaye W/mariam ◽  
Biruk Assefa Kebede ◽  
Ritbano Ahmed Abdo ◽  
Abebe Alemu Anshebo ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Preterm birth is defined as the birth of a baby before 37 completed weeks of gestation. Worldwide, prematurity is the second foremost cause of death in children under the age of 5 years. Preterm birth also gives rise to short and long term complications. Therefore, the primary aim of this study was to identify the factors associated with preterm birth in Wachemo University Nigist Eleni Mohammed Memorial referral hospital, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Methods An institution-based unmatched case-control study was conducted from July 01, 2018 to June 30, 2019 among mothers who gave birth in Wachemo University Nigest Eleni Mohammed Memorial referral hospital. A retrospective one-year data was retrieved from medical records of mothers with their index neonates. Simple random sampling technique was employed to recruit study participants. SPSS version 20 software was used for data entry and computing statistical analysis. Both bivariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were used to determine the association of each independent variable with the dependent variable. Odds ratio with their 95% confidence intervals was computed to identify the presence and strength of association, and statistical significance was affirmed if p < 0.05. Result The current study evaluated 213 medical records of mothers with index neonates (71 cases and 142 controls). Urban residency [AOR = 0.48; 95% Cl; 0.239, 0.962], antenatal care follow up [AOR = 0.08; 95 Cl; 0.008, 0.694], premature rupture of membranes [AOR = 3.78; 95% Cl; 1.467, 9.749], pregnancy induced hypertension [AOR = 3.77; 95% Cl; 1.408, 10.147] and multiple pregnancies [AOR = 5.53; 95% Cl; 2.467, 12.412] were the factors associated with preterm birth. More than one-third (36.6%) preterm neonates died in the present study. Conclusions The present study found that urban residency, antenatal care follow up, premature rupture of membranes, pregnancy induced hypertension and multiple pregnancies were factors associated with preterm birth. The mortality among preterm neonates is high. Enhancing antenatal care follow up and early detection and treatment of disorders among pregnant women during antenatal care and undertaking every effort to improve outcomes of preterm birth and reduce neonatal mortality associated with prematurity is decisive.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 205031212110291
Author(s):  
Targ Elgzyri ◽  
Jan Apelqvist ◽  
Eero Lindholm ◽  
Hedvig Örneholm ◽  
Magdalena Annersten Gershater

Background: Forefoot gangrene in patients with diabetes is a severe form of foot ulcers with risk of progress and major amputation. No large cohort studies have examined clinical characteristics and outcome of forefoot gangrene in patients with diabetes. The aim was to examine clinical characteristics and outcome of forefoot gangrene in patients with diabetes admitted to a diabetic foot centre. Methods: Patients with diabetes and foot ulcer consecutively presenting were included if they had forefoot gangrene (Wagner grade 4) at initial visit or developed forefoot gangrene during follow-up at diabetic foot centre. Patients were prospectively followed up until final outcome, either healing or death. The median follow-up period until healing was 41 (3–234) weeks. Results: Four hundred and seventy-six patients were included. The median age was 73 (35–95) years and 63% were males. Of the patients, 82% had cardiovascular disease and 16% had diabetic nephropathy. Vascular intervention was performed in 64%. Fifty-one patients (17% of surviving patients) healed after auto-amputation, 150 after minor amputation (48% of surviving patients), 103 had major amputation (33% of surviving patients) and 162 patients deceased unhealed. Ten patients were lost at follow-up. The median time to healing for all surviving patients was 41 (3–234) weeks; for auto-amputated, 48 (10–228) weeks; for minor amputated, 48 (6–234) weeks; and for major amputation, 32 (3–116) weeks. Conclusion: Healing without major amputation is possible in a large proportion of patients with diabetes and forefoot gangrene, despite these patients being elderly and with extensive co-morbidity.


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