Correlation between echocardiographic superior vena cava flow and short-term outcome in infants with asphyxia.

Objectives: To assess the relationship between superior vena cava (SVC) flow and short-term outcome in infants with perinatal asphyxia.

Methods: Infants in sequence born after more than 35 weeks of gestation who had been hospitalized at the NICU and normal neonatal wards of Wakayama Medical University between May 2005 and September 2010 were recruited for this observational cohort study. The study eligibility criterion was the presence of perinatal asphyxia, as evidenced by abnormal fetal heart rate monitoring and an Apgar score of 7 or less at 1 min or need for resuscitation using positive pressure ventilation.

Severe hypercalcemia in a child with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia: the role of parathyroid hormone-related protein and proinflammatory cytokines.

Among the hematological malignancies, hypercalcemia has often been reported in lymphoid malignancies such as multiple myeloma and adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma, but it has only rarely been described in acute nonlymphocytic leukemia. We describe here a 14-month-old girl with acute monocytic leukemia complicated by severe hypercalcemia (4.6 mmol/l) at presentation.