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Tissue- specific DNA methylation profiles in newborns
… four tissues of the newborn. We obtained from 6 newborns DNA from fetal placental tissue (n = 5), umbilical cord CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and CD34- mononuclear cells (MNC) (n = 6), and umbilical cord Wharton jelly (n = 5). HCS were isolated using magnetic-activated cell separation. …
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An intelligent diagnostic system for screening newborns
… physicians in the diagnosis of heart diseases in newborns. Many studies have been conducted in recent years to automatically differentiate normal heart sounds from heart sounds with pathological murmurs using audio signal processing in newborns. Serious cardia pathology may exist without symp- …
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Acetaminophen Use in Newborns to Relieve Circumcision Pain
… in how to assess and prevent or relieve pain in newborns (Cunningham, 1990). Routine neonatal circumcision is still performed in most centers without the benefit of anesthesia (Schoen & Fischell, 1991). Acetaminophen has a wide safety margin in infancy and has been shown to relieve mild to …
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Quantification of Motion and Cry Characteristics of NAS Newborns
… is increasing nationwide. NAS patients are newborns who can experience withdrawal symptoms including tremors, poor feeding, and respiratory distress. Presently, the Finnegan Scoring System, a subjective rating scale, is commonly used to judge the patient's condition and determine appropriate …
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Correlates of In-home Smoking Behavior of Parents with Newborns
… of in-home smoking behavior of parents with newborns by analyzing 657 respondents who filled out the New Mom Secondhand Smoke Survey collected at the Riverside County Tobacco Free Families Program. These surveys were collected as a part of referral process to recruit eligible clients for the …
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Invasive Group B Streptococcal disease in newborns at Groote Schuur Hospital
… an important cause of morbidity and mortality in newborns globally, and is more common in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa. There are few studies reporting on the burden of invasive Group B Streptococcus disease (iGBS) in newborns in South Africa, especially in the Western Cape. Objective. This …
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Association Between New Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Pulmonary Hypertension in Extremely Premature Newborns
… significant chronic complications of premature newborns treated in neonatal intensive care units. This thesis provides a deep review of the pathogenesis of BPD, the association of hypoxia with the development of BPD associated pulmonary hypertension (BPD-PH), and a discussion of BPD-PH as a …
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LIPID-RELATED CORONARY RISK PROFILE IN SINGAPORE NEWBORNS : RACIAL AND MOLECULAR GENETIC ASPECTS
… the profile of the plasma lipid traits in the newborns of the three ethnic groups in Singapore in order to characterise according to race, their coronary risk levels at birth using cord blood specimens. DNA polymorphisms of the apolipoprotein B and E genes have been shown to be associated with …
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Relationship between intravenous fluids given to women during parturition and their breastfed newborns' weight loss
… fluids were recorded. Participants weighed their newborns every 12 hours for 72 hours, then weight was measured daily from Day 4 to Day 14. Parents weighed all output (i.e. diapers) in the first 72 hours. Results of the systematic review show that the 7% maximum allowable weight loss recommended …
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Parents' views of their own needs during their newborns' stay on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
… parents' views of their own needs during their newborns' stay on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). A descriptive, small scale explorative design, incorporating a mixture of qualitative and quantitative approaches was adopted. The study involved a convenience sample of thirteen …
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Uniting maternity care with neonatal intensive care: Analysis advancing hospital experiences for families of newborns through design
<p>The landscape of childbirth has changed immensely over the last century. Medical intervention has surpassed the needs of mother and infant to be together when either requires medical attention. By bringing medical equipment for both into a single hospital room, separation between the two will be …
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Brain volumetric MRI study of extremely low gestational age newborns (ELGANs) at 9 to 10 years of age
PURPOSE: Extremely low gestation age newborns (ELGANs) are at high risk for developmental brain abnormalities, which can lead to cognitive, physical, emotional and behavioral deficits. This study is to determine potential brain volumetric abnormalities of ELGAN children at 9 to 10 years of age. …
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A Decision Support Tool for Problem Detection and Resolution in Healthy Newborns: An Exploratory Study to Understand Parental Acceptance and Perception of Usefulness
Being a new parent can be considered an overwhelming experience with so much to learn, in an often exhausted state of mind. Still, it is critical for parents to be able to identify potential health problems in their babies, as soon as possible. This work takes the first steps in determining the …
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Genetic and environmental influences on cord blood atopic markers and on atopic sensitisation in infancy
… as having possible predictive relevance for newborns in terms of the development of subsequent atopic disease. PROBLEM DEFINITION: Most of the work in this field has been done on Caucasian neonates, in Westernised, First World countries. In South Africa, it has been shown that the Black adult …
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Relative habituation and recovery of visual attention to orientation-movement compounds by newborn infants.
… present study asked the following questions: can newborns process spatial orientation changes?; does stimulus movement influence spatial orientation processing?; can stimulus movement changes be processed?; and can changes to two dimensions of a stimulus be detected? Forty-eight, 2-day-old …
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Significato prognostico dell'ecografia cerebrale nei neonati con infezione congenita da citomegalovirus
… with congenital CMV infection. Study design: 57 newborns with congenital CMV infection underwent brain US and were followed prospectively for motor skills, developmental quotient and hearing function. Results: An abnormal US was found in 12/57 newborns. At least one sequela (Developmental …
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Analyzing autonomic activity in neonatal seizures
… electro-cardiac activity, and brain injury in newborns with seizures. In this study, we analyzed the EEG and the electrocardiogram (ECG) signals in fourteen newborns with neonatal stroke and three newborns with hypoxemic-ischemic encephalopathy. Furthermore, we used information from magnetic …
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Nežindančių motinų pieno maistinių medžiagų koncentracijos pokyčiai po gimdymo ir veiksniai bei procedūros, turintys įtakos jo sudėčiai /
Fresh human milk is the best food for newborns and infants. Donor human milk should be the second choice of nutrition for premature newborns when own mother‘s milk is lacking. Such milk must be specially prepared in the donor milk bank in compliance with appropriate safety requirements. The aims of …
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Caratterizzazione proteomica di fluidi e tessuti in diverse condizioni fisio-patologiche
… fraction of saliva from preterm with at-term newborns and adults and establish if differences exist. In the second study medulloblastoma and pilocytic astrocytoma pediatric brain tumor extracts have been compared. In both studies 2- DE analysis was coupled with high resolution tandem mass …
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RILIEVO DI FATTORI XENOBIOTICI, CON PARTICOLARE RIFERIMENTO A NICOTINA E COTININA, IN CAMPIONI ISTOLOGICI APPARTENENTI A FETI E NEONATI DECEDUTI PER CAUSE NATURALI.
… HISTOLOGICAL SAMPLES COLLECTED FROM FETUSES AND NEWBORNS DEAD FOR NATURAL CAUSES. As Sudden Infant Death Syndrome still holds many unknown etiopathogenetic aspects and as analytic chemical instruments and methods have appreciably improved in the past years, samples of 35 corpses, represented by …
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