Czy przesiewowe badania ultrasonograficzne o środkowego układu nerwowego i jamy brzusznej u noworodków ≥35. tygodnia ciąży powinny być rekomendowane

Publication date: May–June 2016 Source:Pediatria Polska, Volume 91, Issue 3 Author(s): Paweł Gałecki, Aleksandra Sawicka, Anna Zaniewska, Maria Katarzyna Borszewska-Kornacka Ultrasonography of newborns born long before term and newborns with extremely low birth weight or other significant pathology has become a gold standard on the neonatal pathology units and NICU. It is a rather simple method and non-invasive; it does not bring the increased risk to the newborns, and is providing much information about the condition of the patient, the course of disease, the effectiveness of the treatment and further predictions. However, only 10–15% children are born below 35th week of pregnancy and are being hospitalized on the II and III degree of neonatal care units. It will leave the majority of children left without ultrasound diagnostics, because very few centres of first degree of neonatal care are conducting that kind of diagnostics apart from very rigorous recommendations, acknowledging that these children are “from the assumption” healthy. Perhaps, such an assumption is not fully correct and many children from so-called physiologic pregnancy are burdened with certain diseases, which could be to recognize and be possibly healed, if all children were examined. In this paper we have studied ultrasound examinations of the central nervous system and the abdominal cavity carried out on children born after 35th week of pregnancy at the Neonatal Unit of the Hospital...
Source: Pediatria Polska - Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research