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Maternal preeclampsia and jitteriness in preterm infants
1Neonatology Unit, Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey. hozkan@cs.med.deu.edu.tr
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.