The immediate efficacy of inhaled nitric oxide treatment in preterm infants with acute respiratory failure during neonatal transport.

Aim: The aim of our review was to describe the clinical response to inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) in a series of preterm babies in respiratory failure during uplift transfers to a neonatal intensive care unit.

Methods: We performed a retrospective review of critical newborns with gestational age <34  weeks transferred from January 2013 to December 2018. Data were extracted from our Clinical Information System for transport.

Unusual presentation of late-onset disseminated staphylococcal sepsis in a preterm infant.

An ex-30-week gestation, preterm male baby was admitted to a tertiary neonatal unit and noted to have increased ventilator requirements and diagnosed with sepsis. The baby also developed an abscess over the left elbow and over the xiphisternum along with a decrease in movement of the left hand and the right leg. Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-producing (SA) was isolated from the blood culture.

Cooling in surgical patients: two case reports.

Moderate induced hypothermia has become standard of care for children with peripartum hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy. However, children with congenital abnormalities and conditions requiring surgical intervention have been excluded from randomised controlled trials investigating this, in view of concerns regarding the potential side effects of cooling that can affect surgery. We report two cases of children, born with congenital conditions requiring surgery, who were successfully cooled and stabilised medically before undergoing surgery.

Three nonfatal cases of neonatal adenovirus infection.

Neonatal adenovirus infection is considered a rare and fatal disease. Three nonfatal neonatal adenovirus infections manifesting as conjunctivitis or conjunctivitis with other nonspecific symptoms are described. Adenovirus DNA was detected by PCR in eye swabs from two patients and in both cerebrospinal fluid and eye swabs in the third patient.

De novo deletion of chromosome 18q in a baby with harlequin ichthyosis.

Harlequin ichthyosis, (MIM 242500), is a rare, autosomal recessive skin disorder due to an inborn error of epidermal keratinization. The gene for this condition has not been localized. We present a case of HI in which there was a de novo deletion of chromosome 18q: the karyotype was 46, XY, del(18)(q21.