Publications by authors named "M Franco-Gutierrez"

Objectives: to determine the survival rate and type of morbidity during the first year of life of infants with necrotizing enterocolitis (NED) who underwent to surgical treatment.

Methods: a comparative and descriptive study was performed. Thirty two children with NEC (19 deaths and 13 survivals) who underwent to surgery during neonatal period were studied.

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Objective: To identify the co-morbidity and mortality during the first year of life in children with jejunoileal atresia.

Design: Descriptive, comparative cohort. SITE: Hospital de Pediatría, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social.

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Background: We undertook this study to compare the frequency and type of complications, as well as the length of hospital stay, in children who underwent closed cardiovascular surgery with chest tube drainage during the postsurgical period with children in whom the drainage was withdrawn with continuous suction, once thoracotomy was completed.

Methods: A retrospective, descriptive and analytic study was performed at the IMSS Hospital de Pediatria, located at the XXI Century National Medical Center in Mexico City. Eighty eight children who underwent closed cardiovascular surgery (Group I) without chest tubes and 42 with chest tubes (Group II) were studied.

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Objective: To identify risk factors associated to surgical site infection (SSI) in newborns.

Design: Case-control study. Site.

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Unlabelled: The objective was to identify prognostic factors associated with mortality in newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

Methods: Study design was cases and controls nested in a cohort. We studied 65 newborns.

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