Publications by authors named "C Mossay"

Certain children presenting chronic pulmonary diseases, severe or relapsing, aggravated by unfavourable psychosocial factors are hospitalised in a repetitive manner. To try to help these children, we created a project for a family, school and social reintegration. We developed a program which by its multidisciplinary integrated approach tries to get the family to accept the illness and its constraints, to decrease the factors which lead to chronicisation or aggravation of the symptomatology.

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A computerized method for the measurement of alveolar ventilation (VA) and the mean alveolar partial pressures of CO2 and O2 is described and tested in healthy, awake fullterm (FT) newborns and preterm (PT) infants (postnatal age 40 days). This study emphasizes the technical pitfalls generally encountered when dealing with very small infants. A sensitive pneumotachograph with a small dead space volume and a low-flow sampling system for the gas analyzer are minimum requirements.

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Mediators in the asthmatic child.

Acta Paediatr Hung

November 1984

Prostaglandins (PGF) are known to occur in premature babies with hyaline membrane disease and so the levels of PGE during growth have been investigated. The levels are lower in children than in adults; but this fact cannot explain the high resistance to air flow in infants. The release of mediators has been shown in children and in adults.

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