[Early hospital discharge of preterm very low birt weight infants in the CMNT]

During a period of 2 years [2004-2005] 329 very low birth weight infants were discharged from the NICU of the CMNT. Mean birth weight was 1240g and mean gestational age was 30 weeks at admission. At discharge these babies weighed meanly 1575g and had post menstrual age of 35 weeks; 7, 2%of them were readmitted. The authors discuss the different conditions required for discharge of premature infants

Evolution of twin pregnancies in the centre de maternite et de neonatalogie de Tunis

Multiples pregnancies and notably twin pregnancies are more and more frequent because of the development of the assisted reproduction technologies. These pregnancies contribute in a large part in the morbidity and the mortality among newborn because of prematurity. In this retrospective study, the authors fly to evaluate the status of twin pregnancies in the CMNT during 2001

[Maple syrup urine disease: a study of three affected families]

Maple syrup urine disease [MSUD] is a rare inborn error of amino acid metabolism inherited as an autosomal recessive trait secondary to a deficiency of the enzyme branched chain 2 keto deshydrognase complex [BCKAD] The disease is associated with severe and catastrophic illness in the newborn period typically the infants are well at birth and after two or three days of ingestion of milk the babies begin to manifest poor feeding and spitting We report three observations of three families collected in le Centre de Maternity et de Neonatology de Tunis during 15 years The three patients are boys, their parents are relatives and one of the patients had a brother who died in the neonatal period All the patients became day one lethargic hypotonic and presented seizures two of them had perinatal asphyxia In a family the diagnostic of the disease was obtained in the second sibling affected both admitted in our unit The last patient was referred from Libya with the diagnostic of meningitis Illness resulted in death in the three patients Even MSUD is rare it is important to think to the disease in the typical form

[About a case of diabetes transient neonatal associated agenesis unilateral renal]

Transient neonatal diabetes is rare and seen in 1 case over 400.000 newborn babies. We report in this word what is, in our knowledge, the first case of transient neonatal diabetes associated with renal unilateral agenesis and a contralateral megalo-ureter