Evaluation of cystatin C can be effective for follow-up of renal pathologies, because it is not affected by gender, body weight and muscle mass and has a constant production rate.

T Th he e r ra at ti io o o of f m mo or rt ta al li it ty y a an nd d m mo or rb bi id di it ty y i in n v ve er ry y l lo ow w b bi ir rt th h w we ei ig gh ht t i in nf fa an nt ts s i in n a a p pu ub bl li ic c h ho os sp pi it ta al l S Su um mm ma ar ry yAim: Patients were retrospectively analysed to determine mortality and morbidity rates in very low birth weight infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in our hospital. Material and Method:In this study 94 very low birth weight premature babies who were hospitalized in our NICU in the last two years and were compatible with our study criteria were evaluated. The input data (gestational age, birth weight, perinatal risk factors, hospital stay, surfactant therapy, mechanical ventilation strategies, respiratory distress syndrome, intraventricular hemorrhage, periventricular leukomalacia, necrotizing enterocolitis, chronic lung disease and retinopathy of prematurity) of these babies were recorded and analyzed statistically. Results:In our study the mortality ratio of very low birth weight babies was found to be 25.5%. The most common maternal risk factor was preeclampsia/eclampsia (%26.3) which was compatible with the data of NICHD Neonatal Network Group.The ratio of RDS was found to be 100% in group 1, 93.8% in group 2, 78.3% in group 3 and 47.6% in group 4. There was no significant difference between RDS(+) and RDS(-) groups in terms of gender distribution (p=0,191). However probability of RDS in male premature babies was found to be 1.81 fold (0.74-4.42) higher than female premature babies. Conclusions:We expect that the mortality ratio which we found to be 25.5% in our NICU will improve parallel to the improvements in prenatal care, decrease in neonatal infections which we frequently face because of deficient prenatal care and improvement in transportation conditions as well as with an increase in steroid usage. (Turk Arch Ped 2011; 46: 137-43)

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2 ÖzetGöbek bağı yenidoğanın bakteriyel kolonizasyon riski taşıyan bölgelerinden birisidir. Bu yazıda, iki term bebekte göbek bakımı amacıyla kullanılan %70'lik alkole bağlı gelişen cilt yanı-ğı olguları sunuldu. İki olguda da göbek bakımı amacıyla alkol kullanıldı, her ikisininde alkole bağlı göbek çevresinde yanık meydana geldi. Term bebeklerde de alkol kullanımı ciddi yanıklara sebep olabilmektedir. Bu yüzden göbek bakımı yapılırken antiseptik az miktarda (1-2 cc) kullanılıp diğer cilt böl-gelerine bulaş olmamasına dikkat edilmelidir.Anahtar sözcükler: Alkol; cilt yanığı; yenidoğan. Abstract The umbilical cord is one of the regions in the newborn at risk for bacterial colonization. In this article, we report a case of skin burn in two term infants that was induced by using