Publications by authors named "Elena Fridman"
Background: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) contributes to altered lipid profiles and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Youth with T1D may have additional CVD risk factors within the first decade of diagnosis.
Aim: To examine risk factors for dyslipidemia in young subjects with T1D.
Background: Opposition to neonatal Hepatitis B vaccination is a growing trend in Israel.
Objectives: To assess the sociodemographic factors and attitudes associated with non-vaccination of term singleton newborns.
Methods: This prospective, pair-matched, controlled trial was conducted in a tertiary university-affiliated hospital.
Aim: To assess the burden of hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus (hs-PDA) in preterm infants exposed to aspirin .
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 21 preterm infants <34 weeks whose mothers were treated with aspirin during gestation, and were screened for patent ductus arteriosus due to severe respiratory distress syndrome and the need for positive pressure ventilation. These infants were compared to 42 preterm infants born without exposure to aspirin .
Breast milk is an excellent nutritional source for newborns, and a change in its color can be alarming to both mother and physician, and may prevent breastfeeding. Different colors of breast milk have been reported such as blood-stained, blue, and bluish-green. We present the first case of green breast milk caused by maternal ingestion of blue-green algae pills immediately before and after delivery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To describe the phenotypic features of an ethnically homogenous group of patients with Fanconi-Bickel syndrome harboring the p.R310X mutation.
Methods: The study group consisted of eight patients from a single Bedouin family with clinically and molecularly diagnosed Fanconi-Bickel syndrome who had been followed at the same tertiary medical center for 8 years or more.
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a chronic lung disease that occurs in premature infants who have needed mechanical ventilation and oxygen therapy. BPD is defined as the presence of persistent respiratory symptoms, the need for supplemental oxygen to treat hypoxemia, and an abnormal chest radiograph at 36 weeks gestational age. Proinflammatory cytokines and altered angiogenic gene signaling impair prenatal and postnatal lung growth, resulting in BPD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBirth trauma--risk factors and short-term neonatal outcome.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
October 2013
Objective: The ability to predict birth trauma (BT) based on the currently recognized risk factors is limited and there is little information regarding the short-term neonatal outcome following BT. We aimed to identify risk factors for BT and to evaluate the effect of BT on short-term neonatal outcome.
Methods: A retrospective, cohort, case-control study of all cases of BT in a single tertiary center (1986-2009).
Purpose: To identify risk factors for intestinal perforation in very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).
Methods: Retrospective case-control study over a 10-year period, using univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses to compare all VLBW infants treated for perforated NEC, with two age and weight-matched groups: infants with non-perforated NEC and infants without NEC.
Results: Twenty infants with perforated NEC were matched to 20 infants with non-perforated NEC and 38 infants without NEC.
Management of term newborns following maternal intrapartum fever.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
January 2013
Objective: To evaluate the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to full term neonates born to mothers with intrapartum fever.
Methods: In a retrospective study, neonates born to mothers with intrapartum fever, (≥ 37.8°C), were compared to control group matched by gestational age and birthweight.