AV-15 Emergency cardiac operations in neonatal period and early infancy

Cardiac surgery in early infancy.

IMPORTANT advances have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease (CHD) in early infancy. Accurate diagnosis is now possible in the first days or even hours of life. Operation is also possible at this early age and very often it provides the only chance for survival. The risk of conservative treatment often exceeds the risk of the operation. An aggressive approach to ...

Chlamydia trachomatis infection in early neonatal period

BACKGROUND The clinical characteristics of Chlamydia trachomatis respiratory tract infections in Japanese neonates were investigated. METHODS Clinical, laboratory and microbiological characteristics of five infants with pneumonia due to C. trachomatis in early neonatal period were analyzed. RESULTS Only C. trachomatis was identified in 4 infants. Both C. trachomatis and cytomegalovirus was ...

Some congenital malformations necessitating emergency operations in the newborn period.

Cardiac enzyme in emergency medicine

Objective: Acute chest pain is an important and frequently occurring symptom in patients. Chest pain is often a sign of ischemic heart disease. Chest pain due to suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is responsible for a large and ijncreasing number of hospital attendances and admissions. Current practice for suspected ACS involves troponin testing 10–12 hours after symptom o...

Neonatal corticosteroid therapy affects growth patterns in early infancy

OBJECTIVE Although postnatal corticosteroid (CS) therapy has well established beneficial effects on pulmonary function, it may also result in growth restriction during treatment. The course of early childhood growth is believed to predict cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in adulthood. Therefore, we determined the effects of postnatal dexamethasone (DEX) or hydrocortisone (HC) treatment on ...