Respiratory syncytial virus neutralizing antibodies in cord blood, respiratory syncytial virus hospitalization, and recurrent wheeze.

Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalization is associated with wheeze.

Objective: To examine the influence of maternally derived RSV neutralizing antibodies in cord blood on RSV hospitalization and recurrent wheeze in infancy.

Methods: Among children from the Danish National Birth Cohort, we selected a subcohort of 459 randomly selected children, 408 children with RSV hospitalization, 408 children with recurrent wheeze, and all 289 children who experienced both RSV hospitalization and recurrent wheeze.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery: survival and quality of life in patients requiring prolonged postoperative intensive therapy.

The goal of this study was to identify patients who need longer care in the ICU (more than 48 hours) following abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) surgery and to evaluate the influence of perioperative complications on short- and long-term survival and quality of life. AAA surgery was performed in 553 patients, 51 (9%) of whom died within the first 48 hours. Of the 502 patients who survived for more than 48 hours, 109 required ICU therapy for more than 48 hours, whereas 393 patients were in the ICU for less than 48 hours.

Outcome of arterial repairs in 23 consecutive patients at the ICRC-Peshawar hospital for war wounded.

Arterial injuries represent a formidable challenge to surgeons working in war zone conditions. A series of 23 consecutive patients with combat wounds from the Afghan conflict with acute arterial injury were treated at the ICRC hospital in Peshawar. The mean injury-treatment delay (lag time) was 34 hours, with 14 of the 23 patients (60%) treated more than 12 hours after injury.

[Surgery of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Are the results compatible with the effort?].

During 1979-1988 218 patients were operated on for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. On admission 110 patients (50%) were in shock. Patients with a systolic blood pressure less than 100 mmHg, anuria on admission, peroperative bleeding of more than five litres and aged more than 70 years had an increased mortality.