Category: Infants

The rapid white matter (WM) maturation of first years of life is followed by slower yet long-lasting development, accompanied by learning of more elaborate skills. By the age of 5 years, behavioural and cognitive differences between females and males, and functions associated with brain lateralization such as language skills are appearing. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)…

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CONCLUSION: Using core quality improvement methodology, a multidisciplinary team implemented a series of targeted interventions which was associated with an increased rate of DCC in early preterm infants.

CONCLUSIONS: Breastfeeding with HCMV does not affect the immune function of infants with HCMV infection.

CONCLUSIONS: Compared with NIPPV, NHFOV can effectively remove CO(2) and reduce the risk of reintubation, without increasing the incidence of complications such as BPD, air leak, nasal damage, PVL, and IVH, and therefore, it can be used as a sequential respiratory support mode for preterm infants after extubation.

Electroencephalography could serve as an objective tool to evaluate hearing aid benefit in infants who are developmentally unable to participate in hearing tests. We investigated whether speech-evoked envelope following responses (EFRs), a type of electroencephalography-based measure, could predict improved audibility with the use of a hearing aid in children with mild-to-severe permanent, mainly sensorineural, hearing…

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CONCLUSIONS: Due to the increasing numbers of Ghanaian women using medical abortion pills from pharmacies, although it is illegal, the ideal would be for medical abortion pills to be made legally available through pharmacies. Given that this may not occur in the short term, an immediate solution would be to upskill pharmacy workers.

CONCLUSIONS: Healthcare-seeking practice plays an important role in reducing the impact of childhood illnesses and mortality. In Ethiopia, home-based treatment practice and traditional healing methods are widely accepted. Therefore, contextual understanding of the caregivers’ health-seeking is important to design contextual healthcare interventions in the study area.

Deficiency of essential trace element, selenium, has been implicated in adverse birth outcomes and in child linear growth because of its important role in redox biology and associated antioxidant effects. We used data from a randomized controlled trial conducted among a cohort of pregnant and lactating women in Dhaka, Bangladesh to examine associations between selenium…

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CONCLUSIONS: Reference centiles up to 4 months of age in infants highlight the gradual decrease in daytime sleep and large increases in night-time sleep, which occur in tandem with increasing lengths of sleep episodes. These reference centiles provide useful sleep values for infant sleep trajectory occurring in early life and may be helpful for parents…

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BACKGROUND Hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) is a rare syndrome characterized by abnormal activation of histiocytes and hemophagocytosis. We report the clinical management of recurrent HPS following 2 cesarean sections in the same patient. CASE REPORT A 33-year-old primiparous mother presented during her second trimester of pregnancy, and HPS was diagnosed based on pancytopenia, hyperferritinemia (13 170…

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CONCLUSIONS: The AMH clusters identified suggest variation in the timing and the magnitude of the minipuberty response in infant girls. The Decreasing and Low clusters have not been described previously and should be further evaluated to determine if they represent an opportunity for the early identification of later reproductive conditions.

Understanding the neural processes underpinning individual differences in early language development is of increasing interest, as it is known to vary in typical development and to be quite heterogeneous in neurodevelopmental conditions. However, few studies to date have tested whether early brain measures are indicative of the developmental trajectory of language, as opposed to language…

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