Cognitive outcome at 5 years in very premature children without severe early cerebral abnormalities. Relationships with EEG at 6 weeks after birth.

Aims Of The Study: This prospective study aimed to analyze the relationship between EEG at 6 weeks after birth and cognitive outcome at the age of 5 in children born very preterm who did not present with severe neonatal cerebral abnormalities.

Patients And Methods: EEGs were recorded at 6 weeks of age in infants born <29 weeks of gestation or weighing <1000 g at birth. At 5 years, study participants underwent a neurological assessment and cognitive evaluation with the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC).

EEG at 6 weeks of life in very premature neonates.

Objective: To analyze EEG findings, especially chronic-stage EEG abnormalities, i.e., dysmature and disorganized patterns, during the late neonatal period in very premature infants without severe early cranial ultrasound and/or EEG abnormalities.

[Congenital methemoglobinemia: a rare case of cyanosis in the newborn].

We report the case of a newborn presenting a cyanosis after the birth with a good general state. Congenital methemoglobinemia is a rare disease which is characterized by a brutal appearance, in early infancy, of a bluish skin color not regressing with oxygen inspiration, and by a good general state. It is due to the recessive autosomal NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase (EC.

Serum opioid activity after physical exercise in rats.

In order to study the effect of exercise on the total serum opioid activity, female rats were trained for 3 weeks on a motor-driven treadmill and the experiment was ended by a final strenuous run until exhaustion. The serum samples were taken immediately after the final run and were analyzed by radioreceptor assay. Despite considerable interindividual variations, serum opioid activity, expressed in met-enkephalin equivalents (ME eq +/- S.