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Infecções Urinárias/prevenção & controle , Refluxo Vesicoureteral/prevenção & controle , Antibioticoprofilaxia , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Humanos , Lactente , Programas de Rastreamento , Prognóstico , Radiografia , Infecções Urinárias/diagnóstico por imagem , Refluxo Vesicoureteral/diagnóstico por imagem , Organização Mundial da SaúdeRESUMO
A 30 week gestation infant developed necrotising enterocolitis associated with Clostridium perfringens septicaemia at 3 weeks of age. He responded to treatment with intravenous fluids, antibiotics, and blood, but his blood haemolysed. Because of anaemia further blood was given, but, within minutes he died. Examination of his red cells showed an increase in T activation.
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Anemia Hemolítica/etiologia , Antígenos Glicosídicos Associados a Tumores , Antígenos de Grupos Sanguíneos/imunologia , Dissacarídeos/imunologia , Reação Transfusional , Clostridium perfringens , Doenças em Gêmeos , Enterocolite Pseudomembranosa/terapia , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Doenças do Prematuro/terapia , Isoantígenos/análise , MasculinoRESUMO
Between 1979 and 1982 we reviewed 1000 consecutive admissions to the neonatal intensive care unit of this hospital. Sixty five infants had positive blood cultures. Mortality was 70% among 17 infants who had septicaemia in the first 48 hours of life and for whom appropriate treatment may have been too late because of difficulties of early diagnosis. In the remaining 48 infants mortality was 12%, septicaemia occurred later, and was associated with Staphylococcus epidermidis (56%) and with the presence of an intravascular catheter (50%).
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Infecções Bacterianas , Sepse/etiologia , Infecções Bacterianas/mortalidade , Infecções Bacterianas/terapia , Bactérias Gram-Negativas , Bactérias Gram-Positivas , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Sepse/mortalidade , Sepse/terapia , Infecções Estafilocócicas/mortalidade , Infecções Estafilocócicas/terapia , Staphylococcus epidermidis , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
A reference range of plasma creatinine levels for the first month of life derived from 238 babies of 25-42 weeks' gestation is presented. Measurements were performed on a Beckman Creatinine Analyser 2, which uses the Jaffé rate reaction method. There was a decline in plasma creatinine level with increasing postnatal and gestational age. Infants undergoing mechanical ventilation at age 2 days had a significantly increased creatinine level.
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Creatinina/sangue , Recém-Nascido , Idade Gestacional , Humanos , Valores de Referência , Respiração ArtificialRESUMO
A case of lateral meningocele associated with deficiency of the thoraco-abdominal wall is reported. It is suggested that both of these defects are due to interference with the development of the paraxial mesoderm by a single injury.
