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H Verder

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PubMed1983

Occipitofrontal circumference in newborns of betamethasone treated mothers.

Celestona (betamethasone-disodiumphosphate) and Celeston (betamethasone-acetat + betamethasone-disodiumphosphate) given intramuscularly to pregnant women in order to reduce the frequency of respiratory distress syndrome does not reduce the occipitofrontal circumference of the newborn infants. Before the results from the actual work were available an impeding effect of the evolution of the brain was found in the light of animal experiments. The material is comprised of 52 newborn infants whose mothers were treated with Celestona 8 mg daily for 3 days and 46 infants treated with Celeston 12 mg daily for 3 days. The untreated population comprises 1012 newborn infants. Excluded were non-caucasian infants, twins, stillborns and cases of uncertain gestational age. The occipitofrontal circumference in normal infants and those infants treated with betamethasone were compared in Figs. 2 and 3. Focusing only upon cases in which corticoids were given more than 7 days before delivery and in which no placental dysfunction was diagnosed, no differences from the normal were found (Tabs. II and III, and Figs. 3 A and B).

Animals↗
PubMed1975

Anal tonometry in the neonatal period in mature and premature children.

Anal tonometry was performed during the first days of life in twelve premature and fourteen mature children without signs of gastrointestinal disease. A new tonometer with small dimensions was used. A pressure decrease of the internal anal sphincter after distension of the rectum could be demonstrated in all children examined and as early as two hours after birth. This was to be expected as the relaxation of the internal sphincter is part of the normal defecation reflex. Thus anal tonometry can be used in the early diagnosis of Hirschsprung's disease presumable already from the very first days of life.

Anal Canal↗