Enamel Defects in Deciduous Dentition and Their Association with the Occurrence of Adverse Effects from Pregnancy to Early Childhood.

Purpose: To verify the prevalence of developmental defects of enamel (DDE) in deciduous teeth and analyse the association with adverse events that occurred during pregnancy and early childhood.

Materials And Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 152 children with an average age of 3.57 ± 1.

Experimental determination of the effect of progressive sharp-angle spinal deformity on the spinal cord.

Neurological deficit is a serious though not well-known complication associated with spinal deformity. Sharp-angle kyphosis may be congenital, traumatic, degenerative, infectious, or iatrogenic in origin. Many kyphotic deformities are underestimated, thus leading to severe neurological deficit.

Anomalous inferior vena cava with azygos continuation.

Five patients who underwent cardiac catheterization at three separate institutions during a period of 6 years were found to have anomalous inferior vena cava with azygos continuation. Although it is not uncommon to detect this defect in pediatric patients with congenital heart disease, it may be an unusual finding for an angiographer who works primarily with adults. This article serves as a reminder of the existence of this potentially confusing anomaly, usually associated with other congenital cardiac abnormalities.

Correlation between the position of transducers and mitral valve gradient in mitral stenosis.

To assess the severity of mitral stenosis related to the level of transducers, the mitral valve gradient using pulmonary wedge and left ventricle was obtained from 15 patients. The mitral gradient was obtained with both transducers at mid chest level. Then, the level of each transducer was realigned with the catheter tip in the pulmonary capillary wedge and in the left ventricle using lateral fluoroscopy and the mitral gradient was re-measured.