Field evaluation of WHO-MDT of fixed duration, at ALERT, Ethiopia: the AMFES project--II. Reaction and neuritis during and after MDT in PB and MB leprosy patients.

For a cohort of 286 leprosy patients the incidence rates and clinical manifestations of leprosy reactions during treatment and surveillance are described. Currently, individual patients had been observed for up to 4 years. It is intended that surveillance within this project should continue for up to 5 years after treatment.

Field evaluation of WHO-MDT of fixed duration at ALERT, Ethiopia: the AMFES project--I. MDT course completion, case-holding and another score for disability grading.

We report on 286 new leprosy patients (128 PB, 158 MB) enrolled in the AMFES project, a field study in which patients are monitored during WHO-MDT and during 5 years thereafter, by active surveillance. This first paper describes the purposes, organization and methods of the study, patient enrollment and preliminary results of MDT completion and case-holding. Of 128 PB patients 102 (79.

Fetal heart rate monitoring in premature infants weighing 1,500 grams or less.

Continuous monitoring tracings of fetal heart rate in 61 infants with birth weights of 1,500 grams or less were analyzed and related to newborn outcome. Reassuring heart rate patterns or good baseline variability correlated well with a normal unbilical artery pH. Fetal heart rate patterns and baseline variability were not related in a predictive way to central nervous system hemorrhage, respiratory distress syndrome, or neonatal death.