RETINAL HAEMORRHAGES IN THE NEWBORN
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 46
Abstract
[b]AIM:[/b] To study incidence of retinal haemorrhaes in newborn. [b]MATERIALS AND [/b][b]METHODS[/b]- Therecord of mother was done as age, parity,obstetric history,past medical history,drug intake history. The babies were examined with birth weight, mode of delivery, weight, maturity.[b]RESULT[/b]:-The greater incidence of retinal haemmorrhages were noted in preterm and post term babies as compared to normal babies.[b]INTRODUCTION:[/b] Retinal haemorrhages in the newborn are a fairly common occurrence with estimates of their frequency ranging from 2.6% reported by Chace et al (1950) to 50% of all births as reported by Vancea (1941).The credit for first recording and illustrating retinal haemorrhages in the newborn goes to Von Jaeger (1861). Subsequently several observers have studied its incidence and its correlation with various factors to arrive at a probable mechanism of causation.Thus, a spate of studies has sought to ascribe it to a capillary fragility, the Rh factor, lack of substances of retinal haemorrhages in newborns and to assess the importance of various factors like parity, mode of delivery, duration of labour etc. in their causation.
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Kedar Nemivant, Abha Bhalerao
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