Jornal de pediatria
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Jornal de pediatria · Sep 2004
The role of sample collection timing on interleukin-6 levels in early-onset neonatal sepsis.
To assess different perinatal findings and sample collection timing in newborns with early-onset sepsis comparing those with low IL-6 levels to the ones with high levels. ⋯ Sample collection timing is an important factor for detection of high plasma IL-6 level in newborn infants with early-onset sepsis.
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Jornal de pediatria · May 2004
Editorial CommentTechnology: mechanical ventilation strategy versus tactics.
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Jornal de pediatria · May 2004
[The impact of mechanical ventilation strategies that minimize atelectrauma in an experimental model of acute lung injury].
To evaluate whether ventilation strategies that target alveolar stabilization and prevention of atelectrauma would be associated with more favorable physiologic outcomes in a combined model of acute lung injury. ⋯ Strategies that minimize atelectrauma (partial liquid ventilation and high-frequency oscillatory ventilation) are associated with adequate oxygenation and attenuated lung injury. Surfactant improves oxygenation in comparison to conventional ventilation alone but resulted in increased injury, presumably because the inadequately low PEEP was insufficient to stabilize the alveoli during expiration.
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Jornal de pediatria · May 2004
[The impact of malnutrition on idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy in children].
To analyze the prognostic value of malnutrition in children with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. ⋯ The evaluation of nutritional status is easy to perform, it does not imply additional costs and should become routine for children with chronic heart failure.