Publications by authors named "C Lunardi"
Background: the importance of sucking milk directly at the mother's breast is often underestimated and many aspects of direct breastfeeding of very preterm infants are not investigated.
Aim: The primary endpoint of the study was to identify maternal and infant clinical predictors of direct breastfeeding in a cohort of infants born at <32 weeks of gestation or weighing <1500 g. The secondary endpoint was to evaluate the possible effects of direct breastfeeding on infant neurodevelopment.
Background And Aim: First, to compare somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) in preterm newborns without major brain injury studied at term equivalent age (TEA) with a term historical control group. Second, to investigate the impact of pain exposure during the first 28 days after birth on SEPs. Third, to evaluate the association between SEPs and Bayley-III at 2 years corrected age (CA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: We developed the Promotion of Breastfeeding (PROBREAST) programme and evaluated what effect it had on the breastfeeding rate in infants born at less than 32 weeks of gestation or weighing ≤1500 grams.
Methods: We compared the breastfeeding rate in two cohorts of patients who were born before (n = 72; January 2017 to June 2018) and after (n = 80; July 2018 to December 2019) the application of the programme. Moreover, we compared the correlation between type of feeding at discharge and post-discharge breastfeeding rate, between exclusive breastfeeding, postnatal growth and neurodevelopment.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigated how perinatal risk factors, like prematurity and morphine use, affected flash-VEP (visual event-related potentials) waves in preterm infants at their term equivalent age (TEA).
- Researchers looked at a group of infants born before 32 weeks, analyzing various measures of VEP and their correlation with neurological outcomes at 2 years corrected age (CA).
- Results showed that morphine and lower gestational age impacted VEP wave latencies, but VEP morphology did not predict cognitive or motor scores, suggesting caution in morphine use due to potential neurodevelopment risks.
Backgrounds: Restrictions in movement and closure of borders imposed by the Sars-Cov- 2 worldwide pandemic have affected the global illicit drug market, including cocaine trafficking. In this scenario, comparing cutting agents added to the cocaine and the drug purity are valuable strategies to understand how the drug trade has been impacted by the pandemic.
Methods: In this work, 204 cocaine salt materials seized in the Brazilian Federal District, before (2019) and during COVID-19 pandemics (2020) were analyzed by two analytical techniques: gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).