Semantic verbal fluency impairment is detectable in patients with subjective cognitive decline.

Patients with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) are at higher risk for conversion to dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Semantic verbal fluency (SVF) seems to be impaired in the early stages of AD. The goal of the present study was to identify the discriminative potential of verbal fluency (VF) in patients with SCD to show if very early signs of cognitive decline may be detected in SCD.

[Acute or expectant management in premature labour with preterm premature rupture of the membranes?].

Objective: To evaluate current knowledge about the management of preterm premature rupture of the membranes (PPROM).

Design: Review article.

Setting: Perinatological center, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, General Faculty Hospital and 1st Medical School of Charles University, Prague.

[Spontaneous preterm birth in mother in an artificial sleep on ECMO with severe form of H1N1 infection].

Objective: The authors demonstrate a premature birth of a pregnant woman, who was for heavy Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), on the basis of pulmonary infection H1N1, connected to venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Patient spontaneously delivered after being connected to the ECMO for 30 hours.

Setting: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague.

Post-natal growth of 157 children born as extremely premature neonates.

Aim: With increasing survival rate of extremely premature neonates, their long-term outcomes including growth and risk factors for later disorders need to be considered. We prospectively evaluated anthropometric parameters in children born as extremely premature neonates.

Methods: Anthropometric parameters were measured at the ages of 2 and 5 years in 72 extremely premature children born between the 22nd and 25 + 6th weeks of gestation (group I) and 85 children born between the 26th and 27 + 6th weeks of gestation (group II).

Five-year survival without major disability of extremely preterm infants born at 22-27 weeks' gestation admitted to a NICU.

Aim: To compare the 5-year survival without major disability in infants born at the threshold of viability at 22-25 weeks who were actively treated in the delivery room and admitted to a NICU to that of those born at 26-27 weeks of gestation.

Methods: All infants between 22(+0) and 27(+6) weeks of gestation admitted to a regional intensive care unit during 1999-2003 were enrolled prospectively. The survival and major disability at 5 years of age were analysed by gestational age.