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Carolyn Graeber, Robert Jahn - New York Times
 New York Times | Carolyn Graeber, Robert Jahn New York Times, United States - ... thoracic surgery at the West Virginia University medical school, where her mother is an associate professor of pediatrics and chief of . ... |
Medicine helps babies breathe - Augusta Chronicle (subscription)
Medicine helps babies breathe Augusta Chronicle (subscription), GA - It can also hurt the vocal cords, said Dr. Brad Buckler, a fellow at MCG. "We don't want to damage the lungs, and we also don't want to damage ... |
CPAP-based New Treatment Approach Helps Reduce Chronic Lung ... - Medi News Direct
CPAP-based New Treatment Approach Helps Reduce Chronic Lung ... Medi News Direct, India - Dr Jatinder Bhatia, chief of the Department of Pediatrics’ Section of at the Medical College of Georgia, US, along with other physicians from ... |
PREMATURE INFANTS; AMINO ACIDS; PROTEIN; DIETS; NATIONWIDE ... - Newswise (press release)
PREMATURE INFANTS; AMINO ACIDS; PROTEIN; DIETS; NATIONWIDE ... Newswise (press release) - ... said Stephen Welty, MD, chief of at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a faculty member at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. ... |
Pediatrix buys Maryland practice South Florida Business Journal - Bizjournals.com
Pediatrix buys Maryland practice South Florida Business Journal Bizjournals.com, NC - Pediatrix Medical Group said it has completed its acquisition of Associates, PC, a neonatal physician group practice in Rockville, ... |
Will there be a more 'inclusive' attitude? : reflecting on Taare ... - indiainteracts.com
Will there be a more 'inclusive' attitude? : reflecting on Taare ... indiainteracts.com, India - Within the process of this renewed attention- a particular branch of pediatrics - '' - dealing with the science of development of the new born up ... |
Quintuplets born in Phoenix - KPNX-12
Quintuplets born in Phoenix KPNX-12, AZ - According to the hospital the babies were born following a 31-week, 5-day pregnancy and are being cared for by Phoenix Children’s Hospital’s ... |
Neonatal families come out for casino benefit - Greenwich Post
 Greenwich Post | Neonatal families come out for casino benefit Greenwich Post, CT - Dr. Stylianos Theofanidis is director of at Greenwich Hospital. Tickets for Monte Carlo must be purchased in advance. Levels of support include: ... |
Pediatrix Acquires Maryland Neonatal Group Practice - WELT ONLINE
Pediatrix Acquires Maryland Neonatal Group Practice WELT ONLINE, Germany - Dr. Iafolla formed Associates in 1999 with three physician partners, and they expanded the practice by building relationships with community ... |
Baby's mother headed to trial - The Express Times
Baby's mother headed to trial The Express Times, PA - Dr. Andrew Unger, chief of at St. Luke's, said the baby suffered a life-threatening condition "resulting from not being properly removed from a ... |
Postmortem findings in term neonates. Posted by jonesr to "paediatric pathology" Autopsy on Fri Feb 16 2007
Randomized controlled trial of compact fluorescent lamp versus standard phototherapy for the treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. "Division of , Department of Pediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 160 012, India.
BACKGROUND: Special blue tube lights of standard length are used in most neonatal units to deliver phototherapy. Of late, special blue compact fluorescent lamp phototherapy equipments have been introduced in India, which are claimed to be better than standard tube lights. AIM: To compare special blue compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) phototherapy with special blue standard-length tube lights (STL). METHODS: This randomized, controlled trial was conducted in a level III NICU. Neonates, otherwise healthy, of gestation greater than 34 weeks with hyperbilirubinemia requiring phototherapy, were included. Rh iso-immunized babies, those who underwent prior exchange transfusion and whose parents declined to consent were excluded. By stratified block randomization, babies were allocated to receive phototherapy by CFL or STL. CFL and STL were both special blue lights with irradiance maintained above 15 microWatts/nm/cm2. Total serum bilirubin (TSB) was measured 12 hourly till phototherapy was stopped or an exchange transfusion was done. Temperature and clinical and laboratory parameters of dehydration were recorded 12 hourly till 72 hrs. Nursing staff answered an objectivized proforma about the disadvantageous effects on nurses. RESULTS: Fifty babies were enrolled in each group. Baseline characteristics, causes of jaundice, hemolysis, baseline TSB and irradiance were similar in both groups. Mean duration of phototherapy (P = 0.98) was similar in both groups. Kaplan-Meier analysis of phototherapy duration showed no difference in the survival curves of the 2 groups (P = 0.6). Axillary temperature was similar in both groups and no baby was dehydrated. Nursing staff reported no significant differences between CFL and STL visavis glare hurting the eyes, giddiness and headache. CONCLUSIONS: CFL phototherapy has no superiority over STL phototherapy in terms of efficacy and adverse effects on the neonate and effects on nursing staff.
PMID: 16891677 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]" Posted by drmishra to Jaundice neonate "Full text" on Thu Mar 15 2007
Mechanisms of perinatal brain injury. Posted by jonesr to "paediatric pathology" Autopsy neuropathology microscopy on Fri Sep 07 2007
Hypothyroxinaemia and thyroid function after prete...[Semin Neonatol. 2004] - PubMed Result "The concentration of thyroid hormone in preterm infants is lower than that in term infants. This phenomenon is referred to as transient hypothyroxinaemia of prematurity. Low thyroid hormone levels after very preterm birth are associated with worse developmental outcome in childhood, but only one randomized controlled trial has been carried out in the surfactant era to find out whether thyroid hormone supplementation is beneficial for developmental outcome. More studies are required to find out whether thyroid hormone supplementation is beneficial, and if so, for which preterm group." Posted by rianne to preterm "transient hypothyroxinaemia of prematurity" thyroid on Fri Sep 14 2007
Resting-state networks in the infant brain "Peter Fransson,, Beatrice Skiöld, Sandra Horsch,¶, Anders Nordell, Mats Blennow||, Hugo Lagercrantz, and Ulrika Åden
Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institute, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Neonatal Research Unit, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska Institute, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden; ¶Department of , Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, 3000 CB, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and ||Department of Clinical Science, Intervention, and Technology, Karolinska Institute, S-141 57 Huddinge, Sweden
Edited by Jean-Pierre Changeux, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, and approved August 15, 2007 (received for review May 11, 2007)
In the absence of any overt task performance, it has been shown that spontaneous, intrinsic brain activity is expressed as systemwide, resting-state networks in the adult brain. However, the route to adult patterns of resting-state activity through neuronal development in the human brain is currently unknown. Therefore, we used functional MRI to map patterns of resting-state activity in infants during sleep. We found five unique resting-states networks in the infant brain that encompassed the primary visual cortex, bilateral sensorimotor areas, bilateral auditory cortex, a network including the precuneus area, lateral parietal cortex, and the cerebellum as well as an anterior network that incorporated the medial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. These results suggest that resting-state networks driven by spontaneous signal fluctuations are present already in the infant brain. The potential link between the emergence of behavior and patterns of resting-state activity in the infant brain is discussed.
development | functional MRI | spontaneous activity
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Author contributions: P.F., M.B., H.L., and U.Å. designed research; P.F., B.S., S.H., and A.N. performed research; P.F. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; P.F. analyzed data; and P.F., H.L., and U.Å. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0704380104/DC1.
To whom correspondence should be addressed at: MR Research Center, N8, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska University Hospital, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: Peter.Fransson@ki.se" Posted by pjhirsch and 1 other to "resting-state networks" "spontaneous activity" on Wed Sep 26 2007
Pulmonary pathology. Posted by marcory to "alveolaire capillaire dysplasie" "perinatale pathologie" obductie CCAM long on Fri Nov 16 2007
The value of autopsy in determining the cause of failure to respond to resuscitation at birth. Posted by marcory and 1 other to "perinatale pathologie" obductie on Tue Dec 04 2007
Hypoxic-ischemic injury in the immature brain--key vascular and cellular players. Posted by jonesr to "paediatric pathology" Autopsy neuropathology pathophysiology on Wed Mar 12 2008