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Postnatal growth failure of very low-birth-weight infants in Southwest Iran: A descriptive analytical study.
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- Outcomes and Morbidities in Low-Birth-Weight Neonates: A Retrospective Study From Western India.Cureus · 2024Article
- Postnatal growth failure of very low-birth-weight infants in Southwest Iran: A descriptive analytical study.Health science reports · 2024Article
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Background and Aims: Preterm infants are more prone to poor growth and neurodevelopment. The first few weeks of life play an important role in the growth and neurodevelopment of very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants. The Vermont Oxford Network, evaluating the postnatal growth of preterm newborns, considers growth failure as body weight <10th percentile for postmenstrual age. This study aims to assess the frequency of postnatal growth failure in VLBW infants in Southwest Iran. Methods: This descriptive analytical study was performed on VLBW infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Imam Khomeini Hospital (Ahvaz, Iran) from September 2019 to August 2020. Growth failure was confirmed when a newborn's weight at discharge was smaller than the 10th percentile corrected age (≤-1.28 Conclusion: Postnatal growth retardation in VLBW infants born in our NICU was much higher than that of other centers. Overcrowding, short length of hospitalization, low nurse-to-patient ratio, and untrained nurses were among the reasons for poor postnatal growth in our center.
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