Mannose Binding Lectin, S100 B Protein, and Brain Injuries in Neonates With Perinatal Asphyxia.

Perinatal asphyxia triggers an acute inflammatory response in the injured brain. Complement activation and neuroinflammation worsen brain damage after a systemic ischemia/reperfusion insult. The increase of mannose binding lectin (MBL) during asphyxia may contribute to the brain damage, via activation of the complement lectin pathway.

Role of right ventricular three-dimensional electroanatomic voltage mapping for arrhythmic risk stratification of patients with corrected tetralogy of Fallot or other congenital heart disease involving the right ventricular outflow tract.

Background: The post-surgical history of repaired congenital heart disease (rCHD), in particular tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), is often complicated by sudden death. Electrical myocardial abnormalities could be a substrate for malignant ventricular arrhythmias.

Methods And Results: 146 patients with TOF or other rCHD involving a subpulmonary right ventricle, considered to be at high arrhythmic risk, underwent right ventricular (RV) electroanatomic voltage mapping (EVM).

High prevalence of nickel allergy in an overweight female population: a pilot observational analysis.

Context: In our Allergy Unit, we incidentally observed that a low Nickel diet, prescribed for delayed allergy to Nickel sulfate, reduced body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference in overweight patients.

Objectives: This pilot cross-sectional analysis was undertaken to compare the prevalence of Nickel allergy of overweight individuals versus the general population. We also had the chance to report the efficacy of a low Nickel diet on BMI and waist circumference in Nickel-sensitive overweight subjects.

Quality of life in a cohort of patients diagnosed with renal failure in childhood and who received renal transplant.

Studies on HRQOL on kidney-transplanted young adults who had a diagnosis of chronic renal failure (CRF) in the pediatric age are uncommon. We studied HRQOL and its predictors in a sample of young adults with CRF in childhood who underwent a renal transplant. We recruited patients ≥18 yr old with renal transplant.

Simultaneous determination of creatine and guanidinoacetate in plasma by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).

Background: Guanidinoacetate (GAA) and creatine are reliable biochemical markers for primary and secondary creatine defects. We describe a method by liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) for simultaneous determination of plasma GAA and creatine. We analyzed 283 healthy subjects from 0 to 63 years old to obtain age-related control values.

Predictors and statistical models in congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

Despite advances in intensive care, congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) maintains a risk of death >35%. Mortality predictors have been claimed, using logistic regression. When the outcome of interest is rare (i.