OBJECTIVE Our aim was to identify the role of the homeostatic chemokines CCL19 and CCL21 and their common receptor CCR7 in atherogenesis and to study the relationships between CCL19, CCL21, and CCR7 gene variants and coronary artery disease in a Chinese Han population. APPROACH AND RESULTS Immunohistochemical analysis of samples with atherosclerosis of various stages showed increased CCL19, C...

JCPH – Vol. 64, n 3 – mai–juin 2011 222 4. Heparin sodium in .9% sodium chloride injection. In: Health Canada drug product database; 1994 Dec 31 [cited 2010 Nov 28]. Available from: http://webprod.hc-sc.gc.ca/dpd-bdpp/info.do?lang=eng&code=10521 5. Newby B. Heparin for arterial lines in neonates. Message posted to [email protected]; 2010 Sep 7. 6. Ankola PA, Atakent YS. Effect...

Three infants are reported who developed gluteal skin necrosis as a result of umbilical arterial catheterisation. It is important to examine the buttocks and back of every baby catheterised, so that early remedial action can be taken.

The observations to be presented here on the average oxygen pressure gradient that exists between the maternal and fetal bloods of the sheep, separated by the five tissue layers that form the syndesmochorial placenta, are in the nature of a supplement to data published earlier.' In that paper data were presented on the form of the oxygen dissociation curves of fetal and maternal bloods obtained...

OBJECTIVES The current concepts of human fetal-placental amino acid exchange and metabolism are mainly based on animal-, in vitro- and ex vivo models. We aimed to determine and assess the paired relationships between concentrations and arteriovenous differences of 19 amino acids on the maternal and fetal sides of the human placenta in a large study sample. METHODS This cross-sectional in vivo...

Thirty-seven fetuses with severe rhesus isoimmunization with a gestational age of less than 30 week underwent 92 intravascular transfusions. Of these, 77 were intracardiac, 13 umbilical vein and two umbilical artery transfusions. Procedure related complications occurred at eight (10%) intracardiac and at two (14%) umbilical cord transfusions. Reversal of hydrops was observed in 10 of 16 fetuses...

BACKGROUND The increasing prevalence of obesity constitutes a major health problem in obstetrics with implications for feto-maternal growth and wellbeing. This study investigated and compared the contractile properties of umbilical arteries excised from obese women, with those excised from women with a normal body mass index (BMI). METHODS Sections of umbilical artery were obtained from umbil...

Satisfactory care of the sick premature newborn baby requires investigations of blood gas tensions (Dahlenburg et al., 1968) and of various biochemical parameters, such as blood sugar, often at frequent intervals during the first few hours of life. Blood samples for biochemistry can be obtained from heel pricks or by venepuncture. Heel pricks are painful, may become infected, and the number whi...

Umbilical artery catheters allow reliable blood sampling and blood pressure moniNon bacterial endocardial thrombosis in neonates Relationship to persistent fetal circulation J Pediatr 1982;100: 117-122. 2 Menahem S, Robbie MJ, Rajaduran VS Valvar vegetations in the neonate due to fetal endocarditis Int J Cardiology 1991; 32: 103-105. 3 Krous HF Neonatal nonbactenal thrombotic endocarditis Arch ...

A 43-day-old boy presented with bacteremia after umbilical artery catheterization. Duplex ultrasound examination revealed a 1.1- × 1.6-cm mycotic infrarenal aortic aneurysm and an incidental asymptomatic occluded right common iliac artery. Resection and repair were completed by creating an everted, double-layered internal jugular vein patch. Screening ultrasound examination 10 months postoperat...