Resilience as a mediator of interpersonal relationships and depressive symptoms amongst 10th to 12th grade students.

Background: The aim of this study was to explore the associations among interpersonal relationships, resilience and depressive symptoms, and to examine if resilience is a mediator between interpersonal relationships and depressive symptoms in senior high school students.

Methods: Of 463 randomly selected participants from among 3,900 high school students, 450 (97.19%) consented to and completed a structured 4-part questionnaire consisting of demographic items, Inventory of Adolescent Resilience, Taiwan Relationship Inventory for Children and Adolescents, and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for Children.

Dandy-Walker syndrome with duplex kidney abnormalities in trisomy 18 - A rare case report.

Objective: Trisomy 18 is one of the major numerical chromosomal disorders. The incidence of trisomy 18 is approximately one in 6000 live births. Dandy-Walker malformation (DWM) is the most common congenital malformation of the cerebellum, with an incidence of about one in 5000 live births.

Successful treatment with granulocyte-colony stimulating factor for ritodrine-induced neutropenia in a twin pregnancy.

Objective: Neutropenia developed after continuous intravenous infusion of ritodrine hydrochloride (Yutopar) for preterm uterine contractions in a twin pregnancy. We successfully returned the low neutrophil count to the normal range after discontinuation of infusion of ritodrine and treatment with granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF).

Case Report: A 34-year-old woman with twin pregnancy was treated with ritodrine for preterm uterine contractions at 27 weeks and 6 days gestation.

Pregnancy in a noncommunicating rudimentary horn of a unicornuate uterus: Prerupture diagnosis and management.

Objective: The estimated incidence of rudimentary horn pregnancy is one in 76,000. It is a life-threatening entity with a 50% risk of uterine rupture. With advances in prenatal ultrasound in recent decades, there may be an opportunity to detect rudimentary horn pregnancy earlier, resulting in a lower incidence of maternal morbidity and mortality.

Myocardial infarction and ischemic hepatitis complicated by postpartum hemorrhage.

Objective: To present a rare case of life-threatening postpartum hemorrhage due to uterine atony complicated by acute myocardial infarction and ischemic hepatitis.

Case Report: A 37-year-old parturient, gravida 1 para 0, presented with symptoms and signs of shock due to postpartum hemorrhage after delivery. Ischemic hepatitis, pulmonary edema, and adult respiratory distress syndrome developed the following morning.

Cardiac arrest during emergency cesarean section for severe pre-eclampsia and peripartum cardiomyopathy.

Objective: To present the correlation between severe pre-eclampsia and peripartum cardiomyopathy in pregnancy.

Case Report: A 41-year-old parturient, gravida 3, para 1, at 34 4/7 weeks' gestation, was diagnosed with severe pre-eclampsia. At the time of admission, a plain chest film disclosed bilateral pleural effusions.

Chlamydia pneumoniae-related hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in an adult patient with clonal karyotype abnormality.

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare life-threatening disease characterized by a severe hyperinflammation caused by uncontrolled proliferation of activated lymphocytes and macrophages. Herein, we report a 58-year-old male who had Chlamydia pneumoniae-related pneumonia, followed by aggressive HLH. An abnormal cytogenetic profile was also detected.

Prenatal diagnosis of a de novo 9p terminal chromosomal deletion in a fetus with major congenital anomalies.

Objective: We describe a prenatal ultrasonography diagnosis of omphalocele and symbrachydactyly in a fetus and review the literature on prenatal diagnosis of 9p terminal chromosomal deletions.

Case Report: A 31-year-old woman (gravida 3, para 1) was referred for genetic counseling because a fetal omphalocele had been detected. Prenatal ultrasonography at 17+ weeks of gestational age revealed a singleton female fetus with biometry equivalent to 18 weeks with an omphalocele.

Reevaluating reference ranges of oxygen saturation for healthy full-term neonates using pulse oximetry.

Background: We compared our clinical experience with currently available reference oxygen saturation level (SpO(2)) values from the American Academy of Pediatrics/American Heart Association (AAP/AHA) neonatal resuscitation program guidelines.

Methods: We enrolled 145 healthy full-term neonates; infants showing respiratory distress and those with serious congenital anomalies were excluded. SpO(2) values at every 1 minute until 10 minutes after birth were measured and recorded.

Sublingual vaccination with sonicated Salmonella proteins and mucosal adjuvant induces mucosal and systemic immunity and protects mice from lethal enteritis.

Salmonella enteritidis is one of the most common pathogens of enteritis. Most experimental vaccines against Salmonella infection have been applied through injections. This is a new trial to explore the effect of sublingual administration of Salmonella vaccines on systemic and mucosal immunity.

Otocephaly.

Otocephaly is a rare lethal syndrome of microstomia, aglossia, agnathia, and synotia. This male infant was born to a 19-year-old, gravida 1, para 0, woman who received routine prenatal check-up. Polyhydramnios, low-lying ears, and proboscis were noted by sonography at 29 weeks of gestation.

Cryptic unbalanced translocation t(17;18)(p13.2;q22.3) identified by subtelomeric FISH and defined by array-based comparative genomic hybridization in a patient with mental retardation and dysmorphic features.

Molecular cytogenetics allows the identification of cryptic chromosome rearrangements, which is clinically useful in mentally retarded and/or dysmorphic individuals with normal results from conventional cytogenetics analysis. We report on a 3-year-old girl with mental retardation, growth deficiency, speech delay, and dysmorphic features including hypertelorism, upslanting palpebral fissures, midfacial hypoplasia, and posteriorly rotated ears. The G-banding analysis showed a 46,XX,t(3;8)(q26.