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Failure to Thrive in the Perinatal Period
Author(s) -
RUDOLPH ARNOLD J.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1985.tb10110.x
Subject(s) - failure to thrive , medicine , pediatrics , perinatal period , period (music) , pregnancy , genetics , physics , acoustics , biology
. Identification of newborn nutritional inadequacy is one of the major areas in perinatal medicine where intervention can influence outcome. An infant's failure to thrive may be the result of prenatal and/or post‐natal causes. Management of failure to thrive in the newborn infant must include identification of the problem, establishment of an efficient therapeutic regimen and means of evaluating the morbidity which may occur.