Publications by authors named "Ziad Assaf"
Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess zinc status of newborns with parenteral nutrition with or without a small bowel stoma, to determine the incidence of zinc deficit, and to determine the clinical factors associated with plasma zinc levels.
Methods: Monocentric cohort study including all liveborn infants receiving zinc parenteral intake at 500 μg · kg · day and who benefited from at least 1 plasma zinc assessment during hospitalization.
Results: Sixty-eight dosages of zinc were performed in 50 newborns, divided into 3 groups (no stoma = 26, jejunostomy = 11, ileostomy = 13).
Objective: Alveolar capillary dysplasia (ACD) is one of the causes of pulmonary hypertension. Its diagnosis is histological but new pathogenetic data have emerged. The aim of this study was to describe a French cohort of patients with ACD to improve the comprehension and the diagnosis of this pathology which is probably underdiagnosed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Nitric oxide (NO) has a well-known efficacy in pulmonary hypertension (PH), with wide use for 20 years in many countries. The objective of this study was to describe the current use of NO in real life and the gap with the guidelines.
Methods: This is a multicenter, prospective, observational study on inhaled NO administered through an integrated delivery and monitoring device and indicated for PH according to the market authorizations.
Background: Abnormal interhemispheric synchrony has been described in many clinical compromises in brain function, but its prognostic value in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is unknown.
Objectives: The study aimed at describing the frequency of abnormal interhemispheric synchrony in infants with HIE and to explore its prognostic value. The main outcome was survival without major disabilities.