The systems medicine of neonatal abstinence syndrome.

This review will focus on a systems medicine approach to neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Systems medicine utilizes information gained from the application of "omics" technology and bioinformatics (1). The omic approaches we will emphasize include genomics, epigenomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.

A Neonate with Bilateral Vitreous Hemorrhages After Intra-uterine Bowel Infarction Secondary to Volvulus.

Vitreous hemorrhages are uncommon in the neonatal period. This article describes a neonatal who had bilateral vitreous hemorrhages after intrauterine bowel infarction.

Intrauterine cerebral infarcts and bilateral frontal cortical leukomalacia following chronic maternal inhalation of carburetor cleaning fluid during pregnancy.

Little is known about the effect of inhalation of methanol and other solvents on the pregnancy and the growth of the fetus. We report a preterm male infant who developed cerebral infarcts in utero, leading to large areas of bilateral frontal cortical leukomalacia following chronic maternal inhalation of carburetor-cleaning fluid during pregnancy. The infant presented with acute fetal distress with significant metabolic acidosis at birth.

Constrictive pericarditis following cat-scratch disease in a 12-year-old female: a rare association.

We are reporting an unusual case of cat-scratch disease in a young adolescent girl presenting with recurrent ascites. The illness started with nonspecific symptoms followed by ascites and an axillary lymph node enlargement. She had recurrent ascites for 18 months associated with constrictive pericarditis.