Pediatrics

Development of Tolerance to Chronic Intermittent Furosemide Therapy in Pediatric Patients.

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to describe whether tolerance develops in pediatric patients receiving chronic intermittent furosemide therapy, to characterize when it occurs and whether age-related variations exist. The effects of increasing total daily dose of furosemide and concurrent diuretics and vasopressors were assessed as secondary aims.

Comparing the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Opinions Trends from Different Twitter User Groups with a Machine Learning Based System and Semiparametric Nonlinear Regression.

HPV vaccination refusal is a serious public health issue. Opinions on Twitter have are influential to potential consumers on vaccination behaviours. Public opinions toward HPV vaccination were extracted from Twitter by leveraging machine learning models. We used semiparametric nonlinear regression models to study the association between people's public opinions on HPV vaccination at Twitter and th...

[Young women with HIV infection acquired by vertical transmission: Expectations of having uninfected children].

INTRODUCTION: Pediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART), changed the prognosis of the disease, allowing young women infected by vertical transmission (TV...

Microbiological contamination in digital radiography: evaluation at the radiology clinic of an educational institution.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the contamination rate of intra and extraoral digital X ray equipment in a dental radiology clinic at a public e...

[DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH TO PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE].

According to consensus definition, chronic kidney disease (CKD) includes urinary excretion of albumin >30 mg/day and/ or reduction in kidney function ...

Learning-based subject-specific estimation of dynamic maps of cortical morphology at missing time points in longitudinal infant studies.

Longitudinal neuroimaging analysis of the dynamic brain development in infants has received increasing attention recently. Many studies expect a compl...

Effect of doxycycline on transforming growth factor-beta-1-induced matrix metalloproteinase 2 expression, migration, and collagen contraction in nasal polyp-derived fibroblasts.

PURPOSE: It is well known that doxycycline has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effects of doxy...

Unusual presentation of obscure Meckel diverticulum treated with robot-assisted diverticulectomy: A case report.

INTRODUCTION: Meckel diverticulum (MD) is the most common congenital abnormality of gastrointestinal tract. Tough believed to occur in 2% of populatio...

Design and validation of an MR-conditional robot for transcranial focused ultrasound surgery in infants.

PURPOSE: Current treatment of intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) involves cerebral shunt placement or an invasive brain surgery. Magnetic resonance-gui...

Teaching Adult Rats Spinalized as Neonates to Walk Using Trunk Robotic Rehabilitation: Elements of Success, Failure, and Dependence.

UNLABELLED: Robot therapy promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI) in animal and clinical studies. Trunk actions are important in a...

A mobile platform for automated screening of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma each represent a large proportion of the global disease burden; COPD is the third leading caus...

Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing the Knowledge Base Related to Drug Biotransformation and Pharmacokinetics during Growth and Development.

It is generally acknowledged that there is a need and role for informative pharmacokinetic models to improve predictions and simulation as well as ind...

Robot-Assisted Abdominal Cerclage During Pregnancy.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cervical insufficiency is a difficult condition to diagnose and can lead to preterm birth, miscarriage, or perinatal infant...

Prediction of Growth Factor-Dependent Cleft Formation During Branching Morphogenesis Using A Dynamic Graph-Based Growth Model.

This study considers the problem of describing and predicting cleft formation during the early stages of branching morphogenesis in mouse submandibula...

Automated Transformation of openEHR Data Instances to OWL.

Standard-based integration and semantic enrichment of clinical data originating from electronic medical records has shown to be critical to enable sec...

Towards a HPV Vaccine Knowledgebase for Patient Education Content.

Human papillomavirus is a widespread sexually transmitted infection that can be prevented with vaccination. However, HPV vaccination rates in the Unit...

Suggesting Missing Relations in Biomedical Ontologies Based on Lexical Regularities.

The number of biomedical ontologies has increased significantly in recent years. Many of such ontologies are the result of efforts of communities of d...

Optimization of the Production of Extracellular Polysaccharide from the Shiitake Medicinal Mushroom Lentinus edodes (Agaricomycetes) Using Mutation and a Genetic Algorithm-Coupled Artificial Neural Network (GA-ANN).

Exopolysaccharide (EPS) production by a strain of Lentinus edodes was studied via the effects of treatments with ultraviolet (UV) irradiation and acri...

In vitro effects of Melaleuca alternifolia essential oil on growth and production of volatile sulphur compounds by oral bacteria.

OBJECTIVE: Halitosis can be caused by microorganisms that produce volatile sulphur compounds (VSCs), which colonize the surface of the tongue and subg...

Interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 in diagnosing neonatal septicemia.

Neonatal septicemia (NS) is a common cause of death of newborn infants, hence early diagnosis and treatment are of the utmost importance. However, lac...