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Paediatr Drugs
January 2025
Department of Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care, Division of Neonatology, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a relatively rare but very severe gastrointestinal disease primarily affecting very preterm infants. NEC is characterized by excessive inflammation and ischemia in the intestines, and is associated with prolonged, severe visceral pain. Despite its recognition as a highly painful disease, current pain management for NEC is often inadequate, and research on optimal analgesic therapy for these patients is lacking.
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January 2025
Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
Background: Newborn screening is a public health system designed to identify infants at risk for conditions early in life to facilitate timely intervention and treatment to prevent or mitigate adverse health outcomes. Newborn screening programs use tandem mass spectrometry as a platform to detect several treatable inborn errors of metabolism, and the T-cell receptor excision circle assay to detect some inborn errors of the immune system. Recent advancements in DNA sequencing have decreased the cost of sequencing and allow us to consider DNA sequencing as an additional platform to complement other newborn screening methods.
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December 2024
Grupo de investigación en enfermedades raras, Laboratorio de (epi)genética molecular, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Bioaraba, Hospital Universitario Araba, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Electronic address:
Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have made the detection of the molecular causes of paediatric diseases increasingly affordable, accessible and rapid. While exome sequencing and genome sequencing were until recently only available for research, they are now used in health care practice. The clinical application of NGS has raised many challenges in genetic counselling for families in terms of the interpretation of test results and incidental findings, as well as technical limitations in the event of inconclusive results.
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December 2024
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA. Electronic address:
Genetic tests available in the prenatal setting have expanded rapidly with next generation sequencing, and fetal imaging can detect a breadth of many structural and functional abnormalities. To identify a fetal genetic disease, deep phenotyping is increasingly important to generate a differential diagnosis, choose the most appropriate genetic tests, and inform the results of those tests. The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) organizes and defines the features of human disease to support deep phenotyping, and ongoing efforts are being made to improve the scope of the HPO to comprehensively include fetal phenotypes.
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January 2025
Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida.
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