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[Vitamin A: blood level and dietetics intake in stunted children and adolescents without hormonal disease].
Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992)
October 2002
Núcleo de Nutrição Alimentação e Desenvolvimento Infantil (NUNADI) do Centro de Referência da Saúde da Mulhere, Núcleo de Alimentação e Desenvolvimento Infantil da Secretaria da Saúde do Estado de São Paulo (CRSMNADI-SP).
Objectives: To determine the vitamin A intake and the blood levels of carotenoids and retinol in stunted children and adolescents without hormonal disease, assisted in the Clinic of Pediatric Endocrinology of the Center for Nutrition and Child Development--Department of Health, State of São Paulo, Brazil.
Methods: We evaluated, in a prospective and randomized trial, 47 prepubertal patients between 4 and 14 years old. All patients were submitted to anthropometric evaluation, bone age, bioelectric impedance and serum retional and carotenoid levels.
Vitamin a status of pregnant women and effect of post partum vitamin a supplementation.
Indian Pediatr
November 2000
Department of Pediatrics, L.T.M.M. College and L.T.M.G. Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400 022, India.
Objective: To assess the Vitamin A status of pregnant women in their third trimester using maternal serum retinol levels as the indicator; and (ii) To assess the impact of postpartum Vitamin A supplementation on the Vitamin A status of exclusively breastfed infants.
Design: Prospective randomized single blind controlled study.
Setting: Teaching Hospital.
Permanent pacemaker use after cardiac transplantation: completing the audit cycle.
Heart
November 1996
Retional Cardiothoracic Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Objective: To determine the effects of delaying permanent pacemaker implantation in cardiac transplant recipients from less than tree weeks to three weeks or more post transplantation-a change prompted by an earlier audit.
Design: Retrospective review of resting 12 lead electrocardiograms and prospective 24 hour ambulatory electrocardiograms. Comparison of pacemaker usage before (period 1) and after (period 2) the policy change in November 1990.
Bacteriological and clinical studies of patients with acute retional ileitis indicate that numerous patients with this diagnosis have a benign ileitis of short duration, caused by Yersinia enterocolitica, whereas others develop chronic Crohn's disease. Yersinia ileitis has some clinical and radiological features in common with Crohn's disease, but the two conditions are basically separate. In Yersinia ileitis, three stages are apparent: (a) the nodular stage, lasting up to three weeks; (b) the edematous stage (4th-5th week); and (c) resolution, observed during the 5th-8th week.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe association of nephronophthisis and tapeto-retional degeneration was described by both Senior and Loken in 1961, but prior to 1974 only 28 cases had been published. This report describes 8 new cases in 27 members of 5 families. The severe juvenile type produces blindness in infancy and death from renal failure before the age of ten.
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