Background: Complete colonic duplication is a very rare congenital anomaly that may have different presentations according to its location and size. Complete colonic duplication can occur in 15% of gastrointestinal duplication. We report two cases of complete colonic duplications, and their characteristics. Case Presentation: We present two patients with complete colonic duplication with differ...

This article aims to evaluate the reliability of the data available in the Information System for Live Birth (SINASC) in the city of Teresina, Piauí State, Brazil for the year of 2002. The proportion of data completeness was analyzed, and concordance between variables for data reported to SINASC and hospital records (SINASC-P) was estimated using the kappa index. This study demonstrated that va...

Prospective follow-up of 136 babies exposed to ecstasy in utero indicated that the drug may be associated with a significantly increased risk of congenital defects (15.4% [95% CI 8.2-25.4]). Cardiovascular anomalies (26 per 1000 livebirths [3.0-90.0]) and musculoskeletal anomalies (38 per 1000 [8.0-109.0]) were predominant.

Objective. To check the debated association between phenobarbital treatment during pregnancy and risk for congenital abnormalities (CAs) in their children. Study Design. It is a comparison of phenobarbital treatment in the mothers of cases with CA and matched controls without CAs in the Hungarian Case-Control Surveillance System of Congenital Abnormalities. Results. Of 22,843 cases with CA, 149...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of the Family Health Strategy on infant mortality surveillance. METHODS An ecologic study was performed with a multiple group design, and the unit of analysis was municipalities in Bahia state (Northeastern Brazil) in 2008. The 3,947 deaths analyzed were obtained from the Mortality Information System, and the minimum acceptable level for death investigation wa...

Over the past 10 years, the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam has experienced fast socio-economic development with subsequent changes in malaria vectors ecology. We conducted a 2-year prospective community-based study in a coastal rural area in the southern Mekong Delta to re-assess the malaria epidemiological situation and the dynamics of transmission. The incidence rate of clinical malaria, esta...

RPCs built from the new type of Bakelite developed by the BESIII Muon group of IHEP (Beijing) and Gaonengkedi, Inc. (Beijing) for use in the BES III and Daya Bay Muon Systems [1] have achieved acceptable dark noise rates without Linseed oil coating, but aging effects have not been thoroughly studied there is no published report available on this topic. A preliminary study of the Daya Bay Muon S...

We studied the clinical characteristics for 104 infants born with microcephaly in the delivery hospitals of Pernambuco State, Brazil, during 2015. Testing is ongoing to exclude known infectious causes. However, microcephaly peaked in October and demonstrated central nervous system abnormalities with brain dysgenesis and intracranial calcifications consistent with an intrauterine infection.

Objectives: To retrospectively and prospectively investigate the pregnancy outcomes after hysteroscopy (H/S) for septum resection in patients detected to have a uterine presenting with history of recurrent loss (RPL), diagnosis secondary infertility or primary infertility.
 Methods: This study included 62 RPL who underwent hysteroscopic resection. Patients had anomalies other than septum, ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this work was to examine loss to follow-up on the use of diagnostic or intervention services for Massachusetts infants and children screened or diagnosed with hearing loss and risk factors for becoming lost to follow-up. METHODS We used data from the Massachusetts Childhood Hearing Data System and Early Intervention Information System. We calculated the percent use of...