Neonatal and Pediatric Medicine
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Preterm with Abdominal Ascites

Vishal Gupta^1* and Aakash Pandita²

¹Consultant Neonatologist, Neonest Hospital, Prashant Vihar, New Delhi, India

²Assistant professor, Department of Neonatology, SGPGI, Lucknow, India

Received Date: May 07, 2020 / Accepted Date: May 30, 2020 / Published Date: Jun 05, 2020

Citation: Vishal Gupta and Aakash Pandita (2020) Preterm with Abdominal Ascites. Neonat Pediatr Med 6: 190.

Copyright: © 2020 Gupta V, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution license which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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A 29 weeks gestation preterm female baby born to 24 years old Primi mother by spontaneous vaginal delivery. Mother Blood group A positive, HBsAg Negative, HIV negative. Ultrasound scan done at 20 weeks of gestation was normal. No further scan was done. Born by spontaneous vaginal delivery, cephalic presentation, no meconium stained amniotic fluid present. Baby did not cried at birth and was floppy with APGAR score of 5 and 7 at 1 and 5 minute respectively. At birth abdomen was distended. Due to poor respiratory effort she was intubated in labor room.

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