Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
Of course death can happen at any hour. Like this: after birth, at dawn, the sun pressing through thick hospital windows, climbing peach walls of the delivery room, ending the long labor in the operating room. Cutting the baby from where she would not come. My snug gloves, warmth and wetness of birth, every single one. Except she was to die; hole at her center, bowel peristalsing her chest. Months you knew too, carrying her, she moved inside, so different from your miscarriages. Placental separation, inarched to the heart-lung machine, floors junked with effort. Luminescent skin of lanugo, newborn hirsutism; lovely photogr...
Source: JAMA - March 5, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
The impact of heart valve models on development of banking methods for tissues and organs: A concise review
Cryobiology. 2024 Mar 2:104880. doi: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2024.104880. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCryopreserved human heart valves fill a crucial role in the treatment for congenital cardiac anomalies, since the use of alternative mechanical and xenogeneic tissue valves have historically been limited in babies. Heart valve models have been used since 1998 to better understand the impact of cryopreservation variables on the heart valve tissue components with the ultimate goals of improving cryopreserved tissue outcomes and potentially extrapolating results with tissues to organs. Cryopreservation traditionally relies on co...
Source: Cryobiology - March 4, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Andrew D Vogel Rebecca Suk Christa Haran Patrick G Dickinson Kristi L Helke Marc Hassid David C Fitzgerald Joseph W Turek Kelvin G M Brockbank T Konrad Rajab Source Type: research
The impact of heart valve models on development of banking methods for tissues and organs: A concise review
Cryobiology. 2024 Mar 2:104880. doi: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2024.104880. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCryopreserved human heart valves fill a crucial role in the treatment for congenital cardiac anomalies, since the use of alternative mechanical and xenogeneic tissue valves have historically been limited in babies. Heart valve models have been used since 1998 to better understand the impact of cryopreservation variables on the heart valve tissue components with the ultimate goals of improving cryopreserved tissue outcomes and potentially extrapolating results with tissues to organs. Cryopreservation traditionally relies on co...
Source: Cryobiology - March 4, 2024 Category: Biology Authors: Andrew D Vogel Rebecca Suk Christa Haran Patrick G Dickinson Kristi L Helke Marc Hassid David C Fitzgerald Joseph W Turek Kelvin G M Brockbank T Konrad Rajab Source Type: research
Electrocardiographic Characteristics in 438 Neonates with Atrial Septal Defects
In conclusion, ASDs are associated with ECG changes from the neonatal phase. TheP-wave duration and PR interval are longer in neonates with ASDs when compared to controls as early as the first week after birth, indicating that these changes are not purely secondary, but that neonates with an ASD have altered cardiac electrical activity.ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT02753348 (April 27, 2016) (Source: Pediatric Cardiology)
Source: Pediatric Cardiology - February 28, 2024 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Top stories in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (2022 –2023)
The Copenhagen Baby Heart Study, a multicenter, prospective, population-based cohort study of 17,489 neonates younger than 30 days, identified 17 with a WPW pattern, a prevalence of 0.1%.1 This was more frequent in boys and was not associated with structural heart disease. Accessory pathways (APs) were primarily left-sided. At follow-up, the WPW pattern had disappeared in most, suggesting either an intermittent nature or that normalization occurs. (Source: Heart Rhythm)
Source: Heart Rhythm - February 26, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Susan P. Etheridge, Maully Shah Tags: Top Stories: Pediatric Electrophysiology Source Type: research
Electrocardiographic Characteristics in 438 Neonates with Atrial Septal Defects
In conclusion, ASDs are associated with ECG changes from the neonatal phase. TheP-wave duration and PR interval are longer in neonates with ASDs when compared to controls as early as the first week after birth, indicating that these changes are not purely secondary, but that neonates with an ASD have altered cardiac electrical activity.ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT02753348 (April 27, 2016) (Source: Pediatric Cardiology)
Source: Pediatric Cardiology - February 23, 2024 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Dogs Barking and Babies Crying: The Effect of Environmental Noise on Physiological State and Cognitive Performance
CONCLUSION: Exposure to the sound of crying babies and dogs barking leads to increased sympathetic response and decreased cognitive ability, as compared to exposure to control sounds. Special attention should be paid to the mitigation of exposure to these types of noises.PMID:38358240 | DOI:10.4103/nah.nah_16_23 (Source: Noise and Health)
Source: Noise and Health - February 15, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Ana Arruda Carolina Mesquita Rodrigo Couto Vanessa Sousa Catarina Mendon ça Source Type: research
Dogs Barking and Babies Crying: The Effect of Environmental Noise on Physiological State and Cognitive Performance
CONCLUSION: Exposure to the sound of crying babies and dogs barking leads to increased sympathetic response and decreased cognitive ability, as compared to exposure to control sounds. Special attention should be paid to the mitigation of exposure to these types of noises.PMID:38358240 | PMC:PMC10849013 | DOI:10.4103/nah.nah_16_23 (Source: Noise and Health)
Source: Noise and Health - February 15, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Ana Arruda Carolina Mesquita Rodrigo Couto Vanessa Sousa Catarina Mendon ça Source Type: research
