Publications by authors named "Maya T Dassanayake"
Article Synopsis
- Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is heart failure occurring during late pregnancy or after delivery, leading to debates about the effects of breastfeeding on recovery.
- A study analyzed 220 women diagnosed with PPCM, focusing on their lactation status and rates of heart recovery, finding no significant differences between those who breastfed and those who did not.
- Most women reported receiving discouragement against breastfeeding due to their heart condition, highlighting a gap in supportive counseling regarding lactation options.
Study Objective: Examine sex-specific characteristics in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) at our institution.
Design: Retrospective chart review was performed utilizing our institutional Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) database.
Setting: An academic, quaternary care center from 2010 to 2021.
The human brain undergoes dramatic maturational changes during late stages of fetal and early postnatal life. The importance of this period to the establishment of healthy neural connectivity is apparent in the high incidence of neural injury in preterm infants, in whom untimely exposure to ex-uterine factors interrupts neural connectivity. Though the relevance of this period to human neuroscience is apparent, little is known about functional neural networks in human fetal life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCompelling evidence indicates that psychiatric and developmental disorders are generally caused by disruptions in the functional connectivity (FC) of brain networks. Events occurring during development, and in particular during fetal life, have been implicated in the genesis of such disorders. However, the developmental timetable for the emergence of neural FC during human fetal life is unknown.
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