Table of Contents:

1. Updated Information on Stem Cells for the Neonatologist
  

2. Current Issues in the Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment of Neonatal Thrombocytopenia

3. The role of recombinant leukocyte colony-stimulating factors in the neonatal intensive care unit

4. non-hematopoietic effects of erythropoietin

5. Why, When and How Should We Provide Red Cell Transfusions and Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents to Support Red Cell Mass In Neonates

6. Diagnosis and Treatment of Immune Mediated and Non-Immune Mediated Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn

  7. Controversies in Neonatal Thrombotic Disorders

8 A Practical Approach to the Neutropenic Neonate

9. What evidence supports dietary intervention to prevent infant allergy and food allergy development?

10. Maternally-mediated Neonatal Autoimmunity

11. CMV: Diagnosis, treament and considerations on vaccine mediated prevention

12. Neonatal T-Cell Immunity and it’s Regulation by Innate Immunity an Dendritic Cells?

 13. Breast Milk and Viral Infection

14. Probiotics for the prevention of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm neonates

15. The Ureaplasma conundrum: should we look or ignore?

16. Control of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

17. Neonatal Fungal Infections

18. Use of Biomarkers for detection of early and late onset neonatal sepsis

19. Chorioamnionitis and its effects on the fetus/neonate

  Irina A. Buhimschi