Table of contents

Original articles

• Comparison of mortality risk: a score for very low birthweight infants (1 May, 1997)

  R F Maier, M Rey, B C Metze, M Obladen
• Urinary excretion of 5-L-oxoproline (pyroglutamic acid) during early life in term and preterm infants (1 May, 1997)

  Alan A Jackson, C Persaud, M Hall, S Smith, N Evans, N Rutter
• Role of epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor α in the developing stomach (1 May, 1997)

  E J Kelly, S J Newell, K G Brownlee, S M Farmery, C Cullinane, W A Reid, P Jackson, S F Gray, J N Primrose, M Lagopoulos
• Neonatal symptomatic thromboembolism in Germany: two year survey (1 May, 1997)

  Ulrike Nowak-Göttl, Rüdiger von Kries, Ullrich Göbel
• Light reduction and the electroretinogram of preterm infants (1 May, 1997)

  Kathleen A Kennedy, Merle A Ipson, David G Birch, Jon E Tyson, Jane L Anderson, Steven Nusinowitz, Linda West, Rand Spencer, Eileen E Birch
• Randomised trial of dopamine compared with hydrocortisone for the treatment of hypotensive very low birthweight infants (1 May, 1997)

  David Bourchier, Philip J Weston
• Treatment of patent ductus arteriosus with ibuprofen (1 May, 1997)

  Bart Van Overmeire, Ingrid Follens, Suzanne Hartmann, Wouter L Creten, Karel J Van Acker
• Renal calcification in preterm infants: follow up at 4–5 years (1 May, 1997)

  C A Jones, S King, N J Shaw, B A Judd
• Randomised controlled double blind study of role of recombinant erythropoietin in the prevention of chronic lung disease (1 May, 1997)

  Gill Griffiths, Ranjit Lall, Sue Chatfield, Andrew Short, Peter Mackay, Paula Williamson, Julia Brown, Malcolm I Levene
• Capillary refilling time in newborn babies: normal values (1 May, 1997)

  Krzysztof S Strozik, Clarissa H Pieper, Jacques Roller
• Neonatal intensive care provision in the United Kingdom 1992–3 (1 May, 1997)

  D W A Milligan
• Faecal chymotrypsin in small for gestational age infants: effects of nucleotides and breast feeding (1 May, 1997)

  M Cosgrove, H Losty, H R Jenkins, D P Davies
• Tracheobronchomalacia in preterm infants with chronic lung disease (1 May, 1997)

  Iolo J M Doull, Quen Mok, Robert C Tasker