Similar effects on infants of n-3 and n-6 fatty acids supplementation to pregnant and lactating women.

Objective: There have been indications that high intake of n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) during pregnancy may increase birth weight and gestational length. In addition, n-3 long-chain PUFAs may be important for the neurobiological development of the infants. High levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6 n-3) are found in the gray matter of the cerebral cortex and in the retina, and it seems as if the availability of long-chain PUFAs may be limiting cerebral development.

[Acute respiratory failure caused by myotonic dystrophy].

Background: Respiratory insufficiency is not always caused by pulmonary diseases or diseases involving the pulmonary vasculature.

Material And Method: We present a case history of a 29-year-old patient with acute respiratory insufficiency following a gynaecological operation.

Results: Ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy and spiral-CT of thorax excluded pulmonary embolism.

Childhood autism: the need for physical investigations.

In this paper the results of an extensive medical investigation of 25 children with childhood autism are presented and compared with those found in a group of non-autistic individuals matched for sex, age and intellectual level, all referred for developmental deviancy of unknown etiology. The examination included a psychiatric assessment and a neurological examination in addition to neurophysiological, chromosomal, metabolic and neuroimaging evaluation. In the clinical examination macrocephaly was found only among the autistic individuals, while the frequency of pathological cerebral CT and clinical parameters such as tendon reflexes and mobility problems was significantly greater in the control group.

Hypoxemic resuscitation in newborn piglets: recovery of somatosensory evoked potentials, hypoxanthine, and acid-base balance.

We tested the hypothesis that hypoxic newborn piglets can be successfully resuscitated with lower O2 concentrations than 21%. Severely hypoxic, 2-4-d-old, anesthetized piglets were randomly divided into five resuscitation groups: 21% O2 (n = 10), 18% O2 (n = 9), 15% O2 (n = 9), 12% O2 (n = 8), all normoventilated, and a hypoventilated 21% O2 group (PaCO2; 7.0-8.

Fibre density in idiopathic ano-rectal incontinence.

Fibre density (FD) was measured in the external anal sphincter (EAS) in 54 patients with idiopathic anal incontinence and compared to normative data from a control group of 18 patients. The aim of the study was primarily to establish a diagnostic tool which could give an objective analysis of the anal sphincter muscles. Secondly, to examine whether or not FD was correlated to clinical symptoms of incontinence and manometric measurements from the anal canal.