Publications by authors named "Patty Williams"
Article Synopsis
- Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a major cause of hearing loss and developmental delays in children, but affected infants may appear healthy at birth, highlighting the need for early detection.
- This study aimed to assess the prevalence of CMV infection in asymptomatic newborns at a tertiary hospital in northeast Florida, particularly among low socioeconomic populations.
- Out of 100 tested infants, 1 was found to have CMV, resulting in a prevalence rate of 1% that aligns with national averages, suggesting that universal screening for CMV may be beneficial.
Copious amount of bloody stool in a newborn shortly after birth.
SAGE Open Med Case Rep
October 2021
Melena neonatorum is not uncommon; it presents as bloody stool in newborns and is caused by ingestion of maternal blood. This case presents an infant who had multiple episodes of copious amount of blood in his stool starting at 10 min of life, which raised multiple concerns requiring further investigation. The alkali denaturation test confirmed that the blood was maternal; however, due to the amount of bloody stool and the time required for the alkali denaturation test to result, further workups such as abdominal radiograph and hemoglobin/hematocrit were completed to ensure nothing was overlooked.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo show concordance between heel stick and placental blood sample pairs for newborns' pre-transfusion testing and to validate placental blood's tube and gel methodology. Placental samples were collected for pre-transfusion testing at birth from 78 singleton and twin newborns admitted to our Mother-Baby Unit to compare with the results of heel stick samples taken from same newborns. Gestational age ≥35 weeks, weight ≥2,000 g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study explored whether donor-milk supplementation increases breastfeeding exclusivity at 6 months of life. In 10/2015, we implemented donor milk for breastfed newborns who needed nutritional supplements for hypoglycemia, hyperbilirubinemia, and >8% weight loss at 40 h of life.
Study Design: We conducted a retrospective chart review on 122 qualified neonates admitted to newborn nursery at University of Florida Jacksonville 4 months before donor-milk implementation and 6 months after.
Article Synopsis
- - This study aimed to compare blood samples from the placenta and heel stick samples in newborns, specifically for pretransfusion testing, to minimize blood collection from infants.
- - Researchers collected placental blood from 32 low-birthweight newborns and found a 100% match for ABO, D typing, and direct antiglobulin tests (DAT), while most antibody screen tests were also consistent.
- - The findings support the use of placental blood samples for pretransfusion testing, confirming their reliability and validating the methods used for ABO and D typing.
Objective: Education is a crucial social determinant of health. Food insecurity can be detrimental to children's academic achievement, potentially perpetuating a cycle of poverty and food insecurity. We aimed to assess the relationship between food insecurity and academic achievement in Canadian school-aged children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Food security (FS) exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their needs. The present research sought to determine whether students from households experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity (FI) had poorer diet quality, higher body weights and poorer psychosocial outcomes than students from households classed as having high FS or marginal FI status.
Design: Population-based survey conducted in schools.