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Filter by:Evidence for benefited newborns following delayed cord clamping (DCC), including increasing hemoglobin and hematocrit levels, improving iron stores, and decreasing need for blood transfusion and incidence of intraventricular hemorrhage, in term or preterm infants led the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) to recommend a delayed cord clamping at least 30-60 seconds in vigorous term and preterm infants at birth. Although DCC has been found to be beneficial to infants, the additional blood provided by DCC could increase the incidence of jaundice that requires phototherapy and the hyperbilirubinemia, and the time prolonged by DCC might jeopardize timely resuscitation efforts, if needed. The acid-base status in umbilical cord blood at birth reflects the newborn's aerobic and anaerobic intrauterine metabolisms and is an objective measure of the fetal exposure and response to hypoxia during labour. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a condition in which glucose intolerance develops during pregnancy. It has been estimated in 2009 that nearly 7% of pregnancies are complicated by diabetes and approximately 86% of these cases represented women with GDM. The Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome study (HAPO) revealed that the infants of diabetic mothers (IDMs) are at increased risk of neonatal hypoglycemia, hyperbilirubinemia, shoulder dystocia, and birth trauma. And newborns to diabetic mothers are at increased risk of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and hypoxia, a major cause of admission in neonatal intensive care units. There is little direct evidence on the implementation of delayed umbilical cord clamping in the risk group of IDMs. Therefore, it no clear that the effectiveness and impairment of DCC in IDMs. Therefore, the investigators conducted a prospective study in performing DCC in the infants of diabetic mothers versus the newborns with early cord clamping (ECC) to assess the effect of DCC on neonatal bilirubin levels, hyperbilirubinemia incidence, acid-base status and hypoxia in IDMs.
About 50% of full-term newborns and 80% of premature infants develop jaundice which is due to hyperbilirubinemia. In the majority of cases, jaundice disappears naturally without treatment within three weeks of birth, but the bilirubin level may remain too high, which can lead to a serious neurological disease: kernicterus. To avoid this, a therapeutic management must be instituted, and in some cases, one or more phototherapy sessions (PT) may be prescribed. The aim of this trial is to evaluate the safety and level of satisfaction of parents and healthcare team with one innovative device for phototherapy BUBOLight® included two removable strips of luminous textile incorporating optical fibers. 10 newborns requiring phototherapy, will be illuminated during four hours in one session of PT Bilirubin levels is taken at the start of phototherapy H0 and Controls are made at H+6 hours.
At least 13 hospitals in China will participate in the study, which aims to clarify the natural history of jaundice in Chinese healthy newborns,and decrease the incidence of severe hyperbilirubinemia and acute bilirubin encephalopathy and even kernicterus. The study is an open project, and the investigators welcome institutions fulfilling the specified requirements to join the study during the recruitment phase.
The use of an endoprothesis in a pancreatic duct is a measure to minimize the incidence and severity of Post-Endoscopic Retrograde CholoangioPancreatography Pancreatitis. In this study we will evaluate the use of a Biodegradable Endoprothesis: Archimede Fast Biodegradable Pancreatic Stent in patients with high risk of Post-Endoscopic Retrograde CholoangioPancreatography Pancreatitis.The ARCHIMEDES Fast biodegradable pancreatic stent will be placed during the Endoscopic Retrograde CholoangioPancreatography. The efficacy and the security of the device will be evaluated.
The main purpose of the study is to deliver community health worker based prevention, early screening and management of neonatal Jaundice using battery powered LED phototherapy device at the household level.
A team of researchers at Rice University in partnership with clinicians at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital created BiliSpec, a low-cost battery-powered reader designed to immediately quantify serum bilirubin levels from a small drop of whole blood applied to a lateral flow strip. The simple and affordable BiliSpec system offers a faster and more cost-effective means to detect neonatal jaundice in under-resourced clinics and determine when phototherapy is needed. The goal of this study is to validate the accuracy of the BiliSpec device in measuring bilirubin levels in neonates relative to the laboratory spectrophotometric bilirubinometer and transcutaneous bilirubinometer measurements.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of probiotics on the gut microbiome of infants with jaundice.
To explore the effects of pre-treatment with methylene blue on reduced perioperative vascular resistance in patients with obstructive jaundice.
Specific Aim 1: To determine total serum bilirubin (TSB) and unbound bilirubin (Bf) levels in term and late preterm infants during the first week of life. Specific Aim 2: Measure Bf levels in breast fed and formula fed infants and examine their relationship to unbound fatty acid (FFAu) levels. Specific Aim 3: To demonstrate that phototherapy results in different changes in TSB and Bf.
Treatment of neonatal jaundice is phototherapy with blue light at wavelength about 460 nm and irradiance > 30 uw/cm2/nm. Though, recent in vitro models have suggested that a wavelength of 478 nm should be optimal in reducing total serum bilirubin. The aim of this study is therefore to compare the efficiency of phototherapy with light emitting diodes (LED's) of 478 vs. 459 nm., respectively.