Background: The aim of this study was to verify the benefits of a separate evaluation of pulmonary and systemic haemodynamics for the management of treatment. For the purposes of this study, we selected the data of the time period from 2006 to 2010. Methods: A total of 53 children, average age 1.82 years (SD 1.06) were included in the study and divided according to Lung Injury Score (LIS) and P...

To assess the relationship between capillary leakage and inflammatory mediators during sepsis, blood samples were taken on hospital admission, as well as 24 and 72 h later, from 52 children (median age, 3.3 years) with severe meningococcal sepsis, of whom 38 survived and 14 died. Parameters related to cytokines (interleukin 6 [IL-6] IL-8, plasma phospholipase A2, and C-reactive protein [CRP]), ...

Background: Convergence insufficiency (CI) is a common ocular morbidity encountered in clinical optometry practice. It decreases the efficacy for near work. Pencil push up therapy (PPT) is frequently used for the treatment of CI. Aim: The aim of the study was to determine the effectiveness of pencil push up exercise in convergence insufficiency patients. Methods: A hospital based interventional...

OBJECTIVE To examine the behavior of interleukin-12 and verify whether it can be used to differentiate septic conditions in children. METHODS Septic children aged between 28 days and 14 years, prospectively enrolled from 01/2004 to 12/2005, were divided into sepsis (SG; n=47) and septic shock (SSG; n=43) groups. Interleukin-12 levels were measured at admission (T0) and 12 hours later (T12). D...

The prism over a graph G is the Cartesian productG K2 of G with the complete graph K2. If the prism over G is hamiltonian, we say that G is prism-hamiltonian. We prove that triangulations of the plane, projective plane, torus, and Klein bottle are prism-hamiltonian. We additionally show that every 4-connected triangulation of a surface with sufficiently large representativity is prism-hamiltoni...

Mean platelet volume (MPV) is a simple and economical test that is easy to interpret and is routinely measured with automatic cell counters. It indicates platelet volume and platelet function and activation. Variations in platelet volume may occur more as a result of varying differentiation of megakaryocytes in association with production agents in bone marrow rather than of ageing of platelets...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of vertical prism induced stress on binocular visual evoked potentials. methods: using checkerboard stimulus patterns in two spatial frequencies (sfs) of 0.48 cpd as a low sf and 2.18 cpd as a moderate sf reversing with temporal frequency of 4 hz, the effect of increasing visual stress using vertical prisms of 0, 1, 2 and 3 prism diopters on binocular visual evok...