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Keywords

Body Composition; Child Development; Clinical Medicine; Enteral Nutrition; Neonatology; Parenteral Nutrition

Research interests

I'm a neonatologist with a special research interest in preterm nutrition and it's impact on the neurodevelopmental outcome of infants. Preterm birth leads to an immediate interruption of placental supply with macro- and micronutrients important for infant growth. One of the most important achievements but also biggest challenges for neonatologists is the provision of adequate nutrition to enable growth rates like or at least similar to fetal growth as adequate growth is associated with later neurodevelopmental outcome. Meeting the nutritional needs of preterm infants is more than the imitation of fetal accretion rates as extrauterine life, movements, and possible morbidities have an impact on their needs as well. A constant improvement of neonatal nutrition – from parenteral nutrition and minimal enteral feedings early after birth until post-discharge-nutrition and the introduction of solids foods – is of high interest and the focus of my work.

Techniques, methods & infrastructure

Clinical research

Selected publications

1. Thanhaeuser, M. et al. (2024) ‘Introduction of Solid Foods in Preterm Infants and Its Impact on Growth in the First Year of Life—A Prospective Observational Study’, Nutrients, 16(13), p. 2077. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16132077.
2. Thanhaeuser, M. et al. (2023) ‘A secondary Outcome Analysis of a Randomized Trial Using a Mixed Lipid Emulsion Containing Fish Oil in Infants with Extremely Low Birth Weight: Cognitive and Behavioral Outcome at Preschool Age’, The Journal of Pediatrics, 254, pp. 68-74.e3. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.10.014.
3. Thanhaeuser, M. et al. (2022) ‘Neurodevelopmental Outcome of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants with Cholestasis at 12 and 24 Months’, Neonatology, 119(4), pp. 501–509. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1159/000525003.
4. Haiden, N. et al. (2022) ‘Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Timepoints for Introduction of Standardized Complementary Food in Preterm Infants’, Nutrients, 14(3), p. 697. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14030697.
5. Thanhaeuser, M. et al. (2018) ‘Can Sequential Coagulation Monitoring Predict Major Haemorrhage in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants?’, Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 118(07), pp. 1185–1193. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1655744.