BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous studies have shown the hippocampus and basal ganglia to be highly sensitive to hypoxic-ischemic insult. The authors' aim was to evaluate the long-term effects of perinatal asphyxia (PA) on the hippocampus and caudate nucleus in a group of participants born at term and who met the criteria for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Additionally, the authors looked...

Introduction: Perinatal asphyxia, the prime cause for neonatal mortality and morbidity, results in hypoxic damage to almost all organs of the neonate, kidneys being most frequently (50%) affected. However, neonatal renal failure poses diagnostic as well as therapeutic challenge as clinical and laboratory parameters are unpredictable in this age group. Paucity of studies determining the incidenc...

Materials and Methods: Peak systolic velocity and end diastolic velocity were measured by the duplex Doppler ultrasonography in the anterior and median cerebral arteries in 60 asphyxiated and 50 healty term infants in the first five days of life. Resistive index and pulsatility index values were calculated. T test and Mann-Whitney test was used for statistical analysis to compare asphy xiated a...

OBJECTIVE To describe a child who was asphyxiated by a motor vehicle window and to review the relevant literature. DESIGN Case report. SETTING A 402-bed tertiary care medical center in La Crosse, WI. PATIENT Four-year-old girl. INTERVENTIONS Supportive pediatric critical care. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES None. RESULTS The patient did not survive. CONCLUSIONS Parents must assume responsi...

Asian honeybees have been shown to kill hornets by ‘thermoballing’, in which they surround a hornet to form a ball within which the temperature increases to a lethal level. We report here that Cyprian honeybees, Apis mellifera cypria, kill their major enemy, the Oriental hornet, Vespa orientalis, in a different way — by asphyxiaballing, in which the Cyprian honeybees mob the hornet and smother ...

Background: Microalbuminuria and serum creatinine are the specific markers of acute renal injury. Perinatal asphyxia is responsible for 50% of all neonatal deaths and nonoliguric acute renal injuryis one of its complications. This study was undertaken to determine the efficacy of serum creatinine and microalbuminuria for early diagnosis of renal injury in severely asphyxiated neonates in Calaba...