Speech in 7- and 10-year-olds born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate: a continued prospective Swedish intercentre study.

The aim of this study was to report longitudinal speech results in consecutively selected children from each of the six cleft centres in Sweden and to compare the results between centres. The children were born with a non-syndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate, and results from the same cohort at 5 years of age have previously been reported. Background data on medical care in terms of surgery, speech therapy, and hearing between 5 and 10 years of age were collected.

Reliability of data on percent consonants correct and its associated quality indicator in the Swedish cleft lip and palate registry.

Background: Data in national health care quality registries must be valid and reliable in order to enable open comparisons of results.

Aim: To assess the reliability of data on percent consonants correct (PCC) and its associated quality indicator ≥ in the Swedish quality registry for patients born with cleft lip and palate (CLP) registry.

Methods: Six independent speech-language pathologists re-assessed the audio recordings of 96 five-year-olds with PCC data in the CLP registry.

Optic neuritis due to immunobiologics: first Brazilian case report.

The change in immunological response obtained by immunobiologics has brought a new paradigm to the treatment of immune-mediated disorders. As a result of their efficacy, there is a positive impact on the quality of life of patients. However, severe side effects, such as demyelination of cerebral or peripheral nerves, have been reported.

Simultaneous sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide removal by calcium hydroxide and calcium silicate solids.

At conditions typical of a bag filter exposed to a coal-fired flue gas that has been adiabatically cooled with water, calcium hydroxide and calcium silicate solids were exposed to a dilute, humidified gas stream of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) in a packed-bed reactor. A prior study found that NO2 reacted readily with surface water of alkaline and non-alkaline solids to produce nitrate, nitrite, and nitric oxide (NO). With SO2 present in the gas stream, NO2 also reacted with S(IV), a product of SO2 removal, on the exterior of an alkaline solid.

Iron absorption and incorporation into red blood cells by very low birth weight infants: studies with the stable isotope 58Fe.

Measurements of iron absorption and incorporation into RBCs were obtained with the stable isotope 58Fe, administered as a reference dose, in 11 premature infants with birth weights between 780 and 1,520 g and gestational ages between 24 and 33 weeks. Each study included a timed stool and urine collection, nasogastric tube administration of a single dose of about 228 micrograms of 58Fe/kg of body weight (as FeSO4, with 10 mg/kg of vitamin C) between feedings, and blood samples before 58Fe (day 1) and then 2 weeks (day 15) later. Gastrointestinal absorption of the 58Fe dose as measured by fecal isotope balance was 41.

Selenium absorption and retention by very-low-birth-weight infants: studies with the extrinsic stable isotope tag 74Se.

Measurements of dietary selenium absorption and retention were obtained after administration of a single dose of the extrinsic stable isotope tag 74Se in 20 appropriate for gestational age premature infants with birth weights between 720 and 1,630 g and gestational ages between 26 and 33 weeks. Infants were assigned randomly to receive a standard premature formula (1.34 microgram of Se/dl) or a selenium-supplemented version of that formula (2.

Zinc and copper nutritional studies in very low birth weight infants: comparison of stable isotopic extrinsic tag and chemical balance methods.

Measurements of dietary zinc and copper absorption obtained after administration of a single dose of the extrinsic stable isotopic tags 70Zn and 65Cu were compared to measurements made with standard chemical balance methods in 41 appropriate for gestational age premature infants [body wt 1267 +/- 258 g, gestational age 29.8 +/- 1.9 wk (mean +/- SD), 4 to 83 postnatal d of age].

Nutrient balance studies in premature infants fed premature formula or fortified preterm human milk.

This report compares fat, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, zinc, and copper absorption and retention data from 13 nutritional balance studies performed in 12 appropriate-for-gestational-age premature infants with birth weights less than or equal to 1,600 g fed a proprietary premature formula or their own mother's preterm human milk (PTHM) fortified with a powdered protein-mineral supplement. At the time of each balance study, each infant had a stable condition, was tolerating feedings, and was gaining weight steadily. Stool and urine were collected separately; doses of carmine red given 72 h apart were used to define dietary intake and the stool and urine collections.

Absorption of calcium in premature infants as measured with a stable isotope 46Ca extrinsic tag.

Absorption of dietary calcium was evaluated with the extrinsic tag approach and stable isotope methodology in growing premature infants. Fractional absorption of a bolus dose of 46Ca was determined on 16 occasions in 13 premature infants (birth weight 1135 +/- 40 g, gestational age 29.5 +/- 0.

Total lipid content and fatty acid composition of preterm human milk.

The total lipid content and fatty acid composition of preterm human colostrum and milk were analyzed from aliquots of 24-h collections of colostrum, transitional milk, and mature milk obtained from 21 women who had delivered premature infants with a mean birth weight of 1,049 +/- 38 g (mean +/- SEM) and a mean gestational age of 29 +/- 0.4 weeks. The total lipid content increased significantly with time of lactation (p less than 0.

Determination with stable isotopes of the dietary bioavailability of zinc in premature infants.

Dietary zinc bioavailability was evaluated with the extrinsic tag approach of stable isotope enrichment technology in growing premature infants. The fractional absorption of one dose of 70Zn was determined on 16 occasions in 13 premature infants (birth weight 1135 +/- 40 g, gestational age 29.5 +/- 0.