Should Infants with Blunt Traumatic Brain Injuries and Intracranial Hemorrhage Have Routine Repeat Imaging?

Introduction: The practice of repeat head CT imaging in infants as a distinct population is poorly studied. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence and utility of repeat head CT in the infant population.

Methods: A 10-year retrospective review was conducted of infants with blunt traumatic head injuries (N = 50) that presented to a trauma center.

Prior antiplatelet therapy is not associated with larger hematoma volume or hematoma growth in intracerebral hemorrhage.

Hematoma volume (HV) and hematoma growth (HG) predict mortality and poor outcome in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). While the influence of oral anticoagulation on HV, HG and outcome is well established, the effect of prior antiplatelet therapy (APT) remains uncertain. We retrospectively examined data from all patients with acute, primary ICH, and baseline head CT admitted to our department between January 2005 and February 2014.

Analysis of specific pre-operative model to valve surgery and relationship with the length of stay in intensive care unit.

Objectives: The length of stay after prolonged cardiac surgery has been associated with poor immediate outcomes and increased costs. This study aimed to evaluate the predictive power of the Ambler Score to anticipate the length of stay in the intensive care unit.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study based on data collected from 110 patients undergoing valve replacement surgery alone or in combination with other procedures.

Two cases of restavek-related illness: clinical implications of foster neglect in Haiti.

Restaveks, or indentured foster children, are a poorly understood, vulnerable subclass of Haitian society. From 2001 to the present, a partnership between multiple US academic medical centers and Project Medishare for Haiti has held an ongoing series of mobile clinics in rural Haiti. Multiple cases of restavek-related illness were identified.

Maternal and neonatal outcomes of pregnancies complicated by asthma in an Australian population.

Objective: To determine if there are sex differences in risk and incidence of stillbirth, preterm delivery and small-for-gestational age (SGA) in pregnancies complicated by maternal asthma relative to a non-asthmatic population.

Study Design: Univariant and multiple regression analysis of the incidence of preterm delivery, SGA and stillbirth in singleton pregnancies complicated by asthma in Newcastle, NSW, Australia, from 1995 to 1999.

Results: Asthma complicated 12% of all singleton pregnancies.

Patterns of plasma corticotropin-releasing hormone, progesterone, estradiol, and estriol change and the onset of human labor.

Context: Clinical prediction of preterm delivery is largely ineffective, and the mechanism mediating progesterone (P) withdrawal and estrogen activation at the onset of human labor is unclear.

Objectives: Our objectives were to determine associations of rates of change of circulating maternal CRH in midpregnancy with preterm delivery, CRH with estriol (E3) concentrations in late pregnancy, and predelivery changes in the ratios of E3, estradiol (E2), and P.

Design And Setting: A cohort of 500 pregnant women was followed from first antenatal visits to delivery during the period 2000-2004 at John Hunter Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, a tertiary care obstetric hospital.

Male sex and pre-existing diabetes are independent risk factors for stillbirth.

Aim: To determine whether the risk of stillbirth is associated with male fetal sex, fetal growth and maternal factors in an Australian population.

Methods: A retrospective secondary data analysis of 16 445 singleton births was performed using a tertiary referral centre obstetric database (1995-1999). Univariate and multiple logistic regression analyses were performed.