Is there a potential link between vitamin D and pulmonary morbidities in preterm infants?

Background: There hasn't been conclusive proof about the association between vitamin D and pulmonary morbidities of prematurity.

Methods: 106 preterm infants were retrospectively included into this study. Clinical data and blood samples of all the patients were collected within 24 h of admission.

Mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion: five cases and a literature review.

The aim of this study was to explore the clinical characteristics and etiology of mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS) in China by retrospectively analyzing five MERS cases from the Jiangsu Provincial Hospital within a total of 27 reported MERS cases from available Chinese literature. Most of the 27 cases originated near the eastern and southern parts of China. Ages for 23 MERS cases were under 30 years and the female-to-male ratio was 1:1.