Providing very low-birth-weight infants with fast enteral feeding reduced how long they needed a central venous catheter.

Aim: To determine the impact of the protocol change from slow to fast enteral feeding progression on duration of central venous catheter placement, and the rates of late-onset sepsis and necrotising enterocolitis.

Methods: We compared the evolution of all very low-birth-weight infants admitted on their first postnatal day in neonatal intensive care unit during a 12-month period, before (2021 Cohort) and after (2022 Cohort) implementation of a new feeding protocol. Linear regression model was used to adjust for confounding factors.

Fulminant early-onset neonatal sepsis due to : Case report and review of the literature.

is a rare cause of neonatal sepsis, and it is associated with significant morbidity and a very high fatality rate. The infection is usually acquired intrapartum, from the colonization of the maternal genital tract. Most affected neonates have an early-onset presentation of symptoms, usually within the first 48 hours after birth, which is similar to other causes of neonatal sepsis such as or .

Asperger syndrome and early-onset schizophrenia associated with a novel MECP2 deleterious missense variant.

Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) deleterious variants, which are responsible for Rett syndrome in girls, are involved in a wide spectrum of developmental disabilities in males. A neuropsychiatric phenotype without intellectual disability is uncommon in patients with MECP2 deleterious variants. We report on two dizygotic twins with an MECP2-related psychiatric disorder without intellectual disability.

Significance of increasing adhesion of cord blood hematopoietic cells and a new method: platelet microparticles.

Hematopoietic recovery after transplantation with cord blood (CB) is slower than with bone marrow (BM) and mobilized peripheral blood. Adhesion molecules (AMs) on hematopoietic cells are involved in hematopoietic cells' homing. It may be possible to enhance CB CD34+ cells engraftment by increasing their expressions of AM.