The goal of our Y2K BEACON project is to provide information and support services for organizations to help them determine what corrective actions, if any, are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of medical equipment throughout the set of computer date problems commonly known as the Year 2000 (or Y2K) problem. The web site is for hospitals, clinics, medical laboratories, nursing homes an...

cochlear nerve (cn) aplasia refers to the absence of a visible cn on oblique sagittal magnetic resonance images of the lateral aspect of the inner auditory canal (iac). magnetic resonance (mr) is the preferred technique in patients with sensorineural hearing loss and/or vertigo; however, computed tomography (ct) is used to evaluate the iac or facial nerve canal. three types of aplasia or hypopl...

  A male neonate from a 23 year-old mother by cesarean section without complication in labor or delivery had vomiting from birth for 9 days and lost 400 grams of body weight. He had severe dehydration upon admission to our hospital. After treating his dehydration and assessment of his problem by laboratory tests and radiography we found that he had esophageal atresia without hypoglycemia. We re...

the objective of the present study was to estimate genetic parameters and genetic trends of growth traits , fleece weight and reproductive traits. data collected from 1993 to 2007 by the kermani breeding station were analyzed .traits were included birth weight (bw, n=2614), 3 months weight (3mw,n=2312), 6 months weight (6mw, n=1890), 9 months weight (9mw,n=1380) and 12 months weight (12mw,n=105...

Introduction: Congenital gastrointestinal (GI) malformation occurs due to mal development of GI organs. The diagnosis is based on clinical exam and radiography. The aim of this study was to determine prevalence of gastrointestinal anomalies in Imam Reza hospital deliveries Mashhad, Iran. Materials and Methods: In retrospective descriptive study for one year since 1.8.1391 all deliveries in...

Neonatal ovarian cysts (NOC) are usually self-limiting structures, however, large or complex cysts may lead to severe complications. Unfortunately, no standard guidelines have been introduced for the management, treatment and follow-up of these cysts. In this report, we aimed to introduce a very large NOC without any pre- and post-natal complications. A 30 year-old mother, gravida 2, para 2, wi...

Antiretroviral nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), given to human immunodeficiency virus-1-infected pregnant women to prevent vertical viral transmission, have caused mitochondrial dysfunction in some human infants. Here, we examined mitochondrial integrity in skeletal muscle from offspring of pregnant retroviral-free Erythrocebus patas dams administered human-equivalent NRTI d...

BACKGROUND Risk factors for osteosarcoma in young people were investigated in a population-based case-control study among residents of New York State, excluding New York City. METHODS Cases (n = 130) were diagnosed between 1978 and 1988 at < or = 24 years of age. Controls were randomly selected from birth certificates and were pair matched to cases on year of birth and sex. Exposure informati...

OBJECTIVE To assess additional risk of newborn death owing to early discharge. METHODS This was a historical cohort study using Washington State linked birth certificates, death certificates, and hospital discharge records that covered 47,879 live births in 1989 and 1990. Logistic regression was used to assess risk of death within the first year of life after early discharge (less than 30 hou...