Neonatal Hematology & Bilirubin Metabolism

Sunday, April 27, 2025

7:00am – 8:30am HST

Location: Convention Center: 313 B

CE: 1.5

Moderator(s)

Maide Ozen, MD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor, Director Neonatal Simulation Education
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Disclosure(s):

Maide Ozen, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Rita M. Ryan, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

7:00am – 7:15am HST

Temporal Trends in Red Blood Cell and Platelet Transfusion Thresholds for Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants
Presenting Author: Ravi M. Patel, MD, MSc (he/him/his) – Emory University & Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
7:15am – 7:30am HST

Bilirubin-albumin molar ratios as an index of unbound bilirubin levels in preterm newborns
Presenting Author: Sota Iwatani, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Hyogo Prefectural Kobe Children's Hospital
7:30am – 7:45am HST

Early erythropoiesis‐stimulating agents in preterm or low birth weight infants: update of a Cochrane Systematic Review
Presenting Author: Kia Anarna, MD – University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine
7:45am – 8:00am HST

Beneficial Effect of Bilirubinemia Against Severity of Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is Mediated by Bilirubin Bound to Albumin and not Unbound Bilirubin
Presenting Author: Sanjiv B. Amin, MD, MS (he/him/his) – Children's Hospital of Michigan
8:00am – 8:15am HST

Probiotics to Prevent Moderate to Severe Jaundice in "at-Risk Neonates": a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Presenting Author: Shivani Thirunagari, Jr., MBBS,MD pediatrics – Paramitha children's hospital
8:15am – 8:30am HST

Erythropoietin, transfusions, and outcomes of retinopathy of prematurity and brain injury in extremely preterm infants: An ad hoc analysis of the Preterm Erythropoietin Neuroprotection Trial (PENUT)
Presenting Author: Nancy MA Fahim, MBBCh – University of Minnesota Medical School