Published in BMC Pediatrics
BackgroundHematological reference intervals are used for medical decision tools for interpretation of numerical test results. Establishing of hematological interval among newborn babies is very important for the diagnosis of malignancy, anemia, bleeding disorders, and various infections. There are no locally established hematological reference inte...
Uvod: Babica je strokovnjakinja na področju nosečnosti, poroda in poporodnega obdobja. Je oseba, ki je pri porodu prisotna in je prva, ki po rojstvu vidi novorojenčka. Njena naloga je, da oceni kakovost prilagoditve otroka na zunajmaternično življenje in pravilno ukrepa, če je to potrebno. Oceniti mora njegovo fizično stanje in v primeru nepravilno...
Published in Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition
Alveolar capillary dysplasia (ACD) is one of the causes of pulmonary hypertension. Its diagnosis is histological but new pathogenetic data have emerged. The aim of this study was to describe a French cohort of patients with ACD to improve the comprehension and the diagnosis of this pathology which is probably underdiagnosed. A retrospective observa...
Objective: To investigate the vitamin D status of pregnant women in the Liuzhou area and assess the effects of maternal vitamin D status on the cord blood of their newborns. Subjects and methods: This study included 8852 pregnant women and 2000 newborns. The serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels of the 8852 pregnant women and the cord blood of...
BACKGROUND:Infants with hypoxic-ischemic injury often require cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Mitochondrial failure to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP) during hypoxic-ischemic reperfusion injury contributes to cellular damage. Current postnatal strategies to improve outcome in hypoxic-ischemic injury need sophisticated equipment to perform serv...
Published in Frontiers in Pediatrics
Context: The incidence of early-onset neonatal infection has greatly decreased, but a new diagnostic approach is needed to avoid overdiagnosis and overtreatment. The aim of this study was to assess the potential impact of an algorithm incorporating umbilical-cord-blood procalcitonin (PCT) level on neonatal antibiotics prescription rate as compared ...
This presentation provides guidance and recommendations for the care of obstetric patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection and their newborn infants.
Published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Published in Frontiers in Pediatrics
A novel viral respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is responsible for an epidemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in cases in China and worldwide. Four full-term, singleton infants were born to pregnant women who tested positive for COVID-19 in the city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei...
Published in SAGE Open Medicine
Objectives: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is a life support procedure developed to offer cardiorespiratory support when conventional therapies have failed. The purpose of this study is to describe the findings during the first years using venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in pediatric patients after cardiovascular surgery at Ch...
