Maternal preeclampsia and jitteriness in preterm infants |
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| Authors: | HASAN Ö zkan,Ö ZDEN Anal,AYLIN Turan,& Ö ZLEM Giray |
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| Affiliation: | Neonatology Unit, Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey. hozkan@cs.med.deu.edu.tr |
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| Abstract: | AIM: To clarify the role of maternal preeclampsia in jitteriness in preterm infants. METHODS: Sixteen premature infants of preeclamptic mothers were observed for occurrence of jitteriness and were compared with 32 premature infants born to normotensive women. RESULTS: Jitteriness was present in a significantly higher percentage (75 vs 6%) and persisted longer (4.5 +/- 5.6 vs 1.5 +/- 0.7 days) in the preterm infants of preeclamptic mothers. CONCLUSIONS: Maternal preeclampsia could be included among the pathological factors that cause jitteriness in preterm babies. |
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| Keywords: | jitteriness preeclampsia prematurity |
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