preterm baby

The Blood Brain Barrier (BBB)

The BBB or blood brain barrier has always fascinated doctors, scholars and the curious: this bulwark of defence protecting our brain’s purity, is particularly intriguing, both as an idea and as a concept.

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The intraventricular hemorrhage

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST (by prof. L.A. Ramenghi) WHAT IS INTRAVENTRICOLAR HEMORRHAGE? Intraventricular haemorrhage is a brain lesion that affects predominately preterm infants. It originates from the germinative matrix, which

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