Major neonatal surgery: psychosocial consequence of the patient and mothers.

Purpose: Our previous studies of long-term QOL after major neonatal surgery revealed an unexpectedly high incidence of mental retardation as well as emotional and psychosocial problems, and the patients' QOL correlated with maternal QOL and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The main purpose of this study was to clarify the risk factors affecting long-standing maternal PTSD.

Materials And Methods: Sixty-eight patients, aged between 6 and 17years, and their mothers were enrolled in this study.

Psychosocial and cognitive consequences of major neonatal surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate the long-term quality of life (QOL) of patients who had undergone major neonatal surgery, the psychosocial and cognitive consequences of neonatal surgical stress were assessed when the patients reached school age.

Materials And Methods: Seventy-two patients who had undergone major neonatal surgery were enrolled in this study. Their primary diseases were anorectal malformation (ARM) in 27 cases, esophageal atresia (EA) in 23, and congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) in 22.

[Usefulness of EEG recording for delirium in children with high fever].

Delirium in children associated with high fever is defined as an acute and transient confusional state. Clinically it is most important to differentiate delirium from encephalitis or encephalopathy. Electroencephalographic (EEG) tracings were obtained from 17 children with fever and delirium, consisting of 12 boys and 5 girls, aged from 2 to 13 years.