Publications by authors named "C Pfitzer"
Introduction: Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are predisposed to the reactivation of viral infections such as cytomegalovirus (CMV). Clinical discrimination of disease flares and colonic CMV reactivation is difficult in patients with established diagnosis of IBD, and there are no reliable noninvasive diagnostic tools yet. Furthermore, the influence of novel therapeutics including biologicals and Janus kinase inhibitors on the risk of CMV colitis is unclear.
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- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a serious heart defect involving underdevelopment of the left ventricle and associated structures, leading to significant health risks despite advances in treatment.
- Genetic factors play a key role in HLHS, with links to cytogenetic abnormalities, familial patterns, and identified genomic regions, suggesting a hereditary basis.
- Identifying specific genetic causes is challenging; HLHS appears to result from complex inheritance rather than a single variant, prompting researchers to adopt more sophisticated models in their studies.
Objective: To assess mothers' knowledge on sun exposure related to serum vitamin D levels in the neonatal period.
Methods: Observational, analytical and cross-sectional study, carried out from August 2020 to May 2021 through a questionnaire directed to mothers of newborns, in a maternity hospital in Southern Brazil.
Results: From 141 interviewees, 132 (93.
: Patients with congenital heart disease (CHD), especially as a concomitant syndromal disease of trisomy 21 (T21), are at risk for impaired neurodevelopment. This can also affect these patients' education. However, there continues to be a research gap in the educational development of CHD patients and T21 CHD patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study aims to evaluate the school careers of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) and microcephaly.
Methods: An exploratory online survey was conducted on patients from a previous study on somatic development in children with CHD in 2018 ( = 2818). A total of 750 patients participated in the online survey (26.