Objective: The effects of prenatal coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) exposure on the infantile neurological development are unknown. It has been considered that inflammatory, thrombotic, and vascular changes occurred in placentas taken from pregnant women diagnosed with COVID-19 inflammatory nature infection may lead to negative obstetric events. We aimed assess potential infant.
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TOPIC: Pediatrics TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: To provide a simple method for the diagnosis of neonatal clavicle and rib fractures by investigating feasibility ultrasound characteristics fractures. METHODS: Bedside with an appropriate probe scanning angle was performed in 48 newborn infants suspected born based on physical examination findings, results 30 fracture patients were compar...

PURPOSE Routine physical examination is recommended in follow up guidelines for women with a history of breast cancer. The objective of this paper is to assess the contribution of routine physical examination in addition to mammography in the early diagnosis of breast cancer recurrences. PATIENTS AND METHODS The medical follow-up documents of 669 patients were reviewed. 127 contra-lateral bre...

1Macro International, Calverton, Maryland, United States of America (Correspondence to R. Hong: [email protected]). Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America. ABSTRACT A study was made of the effects of extra immunization activities on routine immunization coverage at district level in Pakistan in a seco...

OBJECTIVE To assess the contribution of neonatal electroencephalogram (EEG) and its correlation with the neurological examination at age of 9 months in newborns with bacterial neonatal meningitis. METHOD Twenty seven infants were studied with positive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture for bacteria. We used the worse EEG result during acute phase of meningitis, and performed neurologic follow-...

AIM To determine whether infants with isolated minor anomalies of the external ear are at increased risk of renal malformations. METHODS Consecutive infants with isolated minor anomalies of the external ear (preauricular skin tags, preauricular sinuses, ear pits, and misshapen pinnae) were offered renal ultrasonography by experienced sonographers over a 41 month period. The prevalence of rena...

Introduction The presence of vasa previa carries a high risk for severe fetal morbidity and mortality due to bleeding caused by injury unprotected vessels when rupture membranes occurs. Previously, it has been shown that prenatal diagnosis significantly improves the outcome. However, systematic screening is not generally performed clinical studies demonstrating performance in routine practice a...

Introduction: Digital radiography has a major role in nowadays healthcare system so radiation protection (justification and optimization) is important in this field. Many related organizations to protection suggested to establish national and regional diagnostic reference level for medical procedures. Reference levels are typically set at the 75th percentile of the dose distri...

AIM To attempt to define the prevalence and significance of murmurs detected on routine clinical examination at six to eight weeks. METHODS A retrospective review of the results of routine clinical examination of a cohort of 6 to 8 week old babies resident in Newcastle upon Tyne, was carried out in two 12 month periods. All cardiac defects diagnosed in infancy in the same cohort were ascertai...

BACKGROUND Routine episiotomy is a controversial issue among gynecologists. The aim of this study was to compare early maternal and neonatal complications of restrictive episiotomy and routine episiotomy in primiparus vaginal delivery. METHODS In this descriptive cross-sectional study, two groups of primiparus normal vaginal delivery (NVD) cases with routine and restrictive episiotomy were st...