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AIM AND METHODS: The purpose of this study was to determine whether sleep changes are a consequence of nicotine presence or withdrawal during the night, we examined 66 healthy non-smokers (33 males, 33 females, age: 20-25 years) after an adaptation night in a sleep laboratory setting. Subjects were randomized to receive placebo or either 8 or 16 mg nicotine patches during the day or during the night in a double blind, parallel group design. RESULTS: The 16 mg nicotine patch applied during the night caused a reduced sleep period time and sleep efficiency as well as an increased wake time. A reduced REM-sleep latency and subjective sleep quality rating were found in subjects receiving nicotine during the night. Arousals, apneas and periodic leg movements were not affected by nicotine. DISCUSSION: This study documents insomnia-like sleep changes in healthy non-smokers caused by nicotine in a dose-dependent manner. There was no evidence for sleep-related withdrawal symptoms after 13 h of nicotine application.
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Nicotina/administração & dosagem , Nicotina/farmacologia , Agonistas Nicotínicos/administração & dosagem , Agonistas Nicotínicos/farmacologia , Sono/efeitos dos fármacos , Dispositivos para o Abandono do Uso de Tabaco , Adolescente , Adulto , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Método Duplo-Cego , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Polissonografia , Fatores de Tempo , Adulto JovemRESUMO
In addition to the classified types of dysganglionosis, certain non-classified dysganglionoses (NCD) (types 1-4) were introduced by Meier-Ruge in 1992. Clinical data on these conditions are limited. Among 134 children with intestinal dysganglionoses (ID) treated from 1979 to 1999, 12 were identified to have a NCD. Their clinical course is presented. The existence of mild ID (type 1) is difficult to demonstrate. Current definitions and data on clinical relevance are not convincing. An indication for surgical treatment is not present. Isolated hypogenesis of the submucous plexus (SMP) (type 2, n = 8) is clinically a more severe kind of intestinal neuronal dysplasia type B and often requires early surgical intervention, but not resection. When associated with aganglionosis, its recognition is important for surgical strategy, to avoid complicated clinical courses, which are frequent if total or nearly-total resection is not performed. Hypogenesis of the myenteric plexus (MP) (type 5, n = 1) has received little attention so far. The sporadic appearance of heterotopic nerve cells of the SMP in the mucosa (type 3, n = 1) is physiologic; clusters of such cells, however, are probably of pathologic value, especially in combination with other types of ID in the same patient. Heterotopic nerve cells of the MP (type 4, n = 3) in the circular and longitudinal muscle layers are highly pathologic. This clearly-defined type is of major clinical relevance and requires complete resection. A severe disturbance of the migration process is the underlying cause. To simplify the terminology of IDs, a grading system based on the anatomic structures and clinical findings is proposed: innervation disturbances of the mucosa (grade I) are of limited clinical significance. Isolated malformations of the SMP (grade II) may require an enterostomy, but do not require resection except in certain cases associated with distal aganglionosis. Dysganglionosis of the MP (grade III) usually exhibits more severe symptoms and resection is indicated, especially with associated hypo- or aganglionosis. In aganglionic bowel (grade IV) resection is mandatory.
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Doenças do Colo/classificação , Anormalidades do Sistema Digestório/classificação , Gânglios/citologia , Criança , Doenças do Colo/embriologia , Doenças do Colo/patologia , Anormalidades do Sistema Digestório/embriologia , Anormalidades do Sistema Digestório/patologia , Humanos , Plexo Submucoso/citologiaRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: Investigators have sought to establish "low-risk" criteria to identify febrile young infants who can be observed safely without antibiotics. Previous studies have used criteria for standard urinalysis to identify suspected urinary tract infection; however, cases of urinary tract infection have been missed. Enhanced urinalysis, using hemocytometer cell count and Gram stain performed on uncentrifuged urine, has been shown to have greater sensitivity and negative predictive value than standard urinalysis. The objective of this study was to evaluate the ability of criteria that incorporate enhanced urinalysis to identify febrile young infants who are at low risk for serious bacterial illness (SBI). METHODS: Institutional guidelines were established in 1999 to evaluate in a retrospective cohort study infants who were =60 days of age with temperature >/=38.0 degrees C. "Low-risk" criteria included 1) well appearance without focal infection (excluding otitis media); 2) no history of prematurity, illness, or previous antibiotics; 3) peripheral white blood cell count (WBC) between 5 and 15 000/mm(3); 4) absolute band count =1500/mm(3); 5) cerebrospinal fluid WBC =5/mm(3) with a negative Gram stain; 6) enhanced urinalysis with WBC =9/mm(3) with a negative Gram stain; 7) stool WBC <5/high power field in infants with diarrhea; and 8) chest radiograph without lobar infiltrate(s) in infants with respiratory signs or symptoms. SBI was defined as a lobar infiltrate on chest radiograph or presence of a bacterial pathogen in blood, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, stool, or culture obtained from the soft tissue. The hospital records of all infants who presented to the emergency department for evaluation of fever after January 1999, including those who did not meet low-risk criteria, were reviewed; data were collected regarding history, physical examination, laboratory test results, treatment, and clinical course. RESULTS: During the study period, 434 infants presented to the emergency department for evaluation of fever. Thirty patients were excluded from additional analysis because of incomplete data; 60 patients were identified immediately as "not low risk" on the basis of history or physical examination. Of the 344 remaining infants, 127 were identified as "low risk" on the basis of laboratory criteria; 83 (65.4%) were observed without antibiotics. None of the "low-risk" infants had an SBI. A total of 217 well-appearing infants were classified as "not low risk" on the basis of laboratory criteria; 28 (12.9%) had an SBI. The overall incidence of SBI in infants with complete data was 10.1%, whereas the incidence of SBI in all "not low-risk" infants was 14.8%. The negative predictive value for the "Pittsburgh" criteria was 100% (95% confidence interval: 96.7%-100%); the sensitivity was 100% (95% confidence interval: 89.7%-100%). CONCLUSIONS: . The application of low-risk criteria using enhanced urinalysis improves identification of infants who are at low risk for SBI.
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Febre/urina , Urinálise/métodos , Fatores Etários , Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Bacteriemia/diagnóstico , Bacteriemia/epidemiologia , Bacteriemia/urina , Infecções Bacterianas/diagnóstico , Infecções Bacterianas/epidemiologia , Infecções Bacterianas/urina , Feminino , Febre/diagnóstico , Febre/tratamento farmacológico , Humanos , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , Masculino , Fatores de Risco , Infecções Urinárias/diagnóstico , Infecções Urinárias/epidemiologia , Infecções Urinárias/urina , Urina/microbiologiaAssuntos
Infecções por Pseudomonas/diagnóstico , Abscesso Retrofaríngeo/diagnóstico , Infecções Estreptocócicas/diagnóstico , Streptococcus pyogenes , Humanos , Lactente , Masculino , Meningite/diagnóstico , Infecções por Pseudomonas/microbiologia , Infecções por Pseudomonas/terapia , Abscesso Retrofaríngeo/microbiologia , Abscesso Retrofaríngeo/terapia , Infecções Estreptocócicas/microbiologia , Infecções Estreptocócicas/terapiaRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: Adults frequently use complementary and alternative medicines (CAM). Few studies have reported how often CAM therapies are used to treat children. The purpose of this study is to describe the use of alternative therapies by children visiting an emergency department (ED) and to identify sociodemographic factors that may influence the decision to use such therapies. DESIGN: Survey of families using a self-administered questionnaire. SETTING: An urban, tertiary care pediatric emergency department. PARTICIPANTS: Convenience sample of families presenting to the ED for acute care. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Use of CAM therapies to treat children. Secondary measures include the type of therapies used, types of medical problems the therapies were used for, reasons for using such therapies, use of such therapies by the child's caretakers, and sociodemographic characteristics of the children and families. RESULTS: A review of 525 completed surveys identified 63 caretakers (12%) who acknowledged that they had used at least one form of CAM therapy to treat any of their children. Homeopathic and naturopathic remedies were the most common therapies used. Parents most often used CAM therapies to treat respiratory problems in their children and were most influenced by word-of-mouth. Children who were treated with CAM therapies were more likely to have a caretaker who used such therapies. Twelve (40%) of 30 families who reported using either an herbal or homeopathic remedy, also used a prescription or over-the-counter medication at the same time to treat their child. Thirty-nine of 55 families (70.9%) reported informing their child's physician of their use of CAM therapies. CONCLUSION: CAM therapies are frequently used to treat children. Most parents who use CAM therapies to treat their children use such therapies themselves. Large proportions of children who are taking herbal supplements are also taking prescription or over-the-counter medications concurrently.
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Cuidado da Criança/tendências , Terapias Complementares/estatística & dados numéricos , Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Tratamento Farmacológico , Serviço Hospitalar de Emergência , Família , Feminino , Pesquisas sobre Atenção à Saúde , Medicina Herbária , Humanos , Lactente , Masculino , Pennsylvania , Doenças Respiratórias/terapia , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
A case is reported with aganglionosis of the rectum, sigma, and descending colon; dysganglionosis with heterotopic ganglionic cells in the muscularis propria of the hypoganglionic transverse colon; and extreme hypoganglionosis (without detection of ganglionic cells) of the ascending colon and distal ileum. The ileum showed a transition zone with hypoganglionosis and intestinal neuronal dysplasia (IND) type B. As to the etiology of such complex intestinal innervation defects, pre- and perinatal perfusion deficits must be considered because their localization seems to be linked to the vascular anatomy of the colon. Early diagnosis may be difficult, causing a delay in operative treatment and multiple operations. Different manifestations of dysganglionosis may be found in the same patient. The classical continuum of distal aganglionosis followed by proximal hypo- or dysganglionosis and then normally innervated bowel may not always be present. Therefore, in children with recurrent (sub-)ileus after resection of an aganglionic bowel segment, additional dysganglionosis such as IND or hypoganglionosis or even complex intestinal dysganglionosis should be excluded by full-thickness colon and small bowel biopsies.
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Doença de Hirschsprung/patologia , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , MasculinoRESUMO
A close relation between different forms of dysganglionosis such as intestinal neuronal dysplasia (IND) type B and aganglionosis has been established. No systematic analysis of other malformations and diseases accompanying IND has been made as yet. Congenital malformations and perinatal morbidity were analyzed in 109 patients with IND seen at the Department of Pediatric Surgery in Mainz from 1977 to 1996. IND was associated with Hirschsprung's disease in 47 cases; 22 children with IND had other abdominal malformations, including anal atresia, rectal stenosis, sigmoidal stenosis, ileal atresia, pyloric stenosis, and esophageal atresia. A cystic bowel duplication, a choledochal cyst, and a persisting urachus were also found. Extra-abdominal malformations such as Down's syndrome, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, aortic stenosis, and malformations of vertebral bodies were seen. Twin siblings of children with IND were either healthy (n=3) or died in utero (n=1). Seventeen children with IND developed severe intra-abdominal complications during the perinatal period such as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), meconium ileus, or bowel perforations. NEC was frequently associated with preterm birth. Bowel perforations were seen in mature and preterm newborns with IND. Taken together, IND is found in a variety of obstructive bowel diseases. This may support the hypothesis that IND is a secondary phenomenon or that congenital atresias and stenoses of the digestive tract have a pathogenesis similar to that of intestinal innervation disturbances. IND may also be a part of complex malformation patterns since it occurs with a number of extraintestinal and non-obstructive intestinal malformations.
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Anormalidades Congênitas/epidemiologia , Doença de Hirschsprung/epidemiologia , Plexo Submucoso/anormalidades , Anormalidades Múltiplas/epidemiologia , Criança , Síndrome de Down/complicações , Síndrome de Down/epidemiologia , Doença de Hirschsprung/complicações , Humanos , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , Atresia Intestinal/complicações , Atresia Intestinal/epidemiologia , Intestinos/inervação , MorbidadeRESUMO
Guidelines for the treatment of fractures in children must meet the specific requirements of the growing organism. Diagnosis must be based on X-ray findings, but occasionally also on sonography or MRT. Treatment is successful only after one-stage exact reduction and safe, conservative or operative fixation. Secondary manipulations or a change in treatment have a negative effect. A growth-induced correction of a remaining false position cannot be anticipated. The older the child, the more must treatment result in perfect anatomic conditions. Especially injuries to the epiphysis require excellent reduction and perfect fixation. Damage of the growth plate and/or a posttraumatic false growth demand long-term follow-up and subsequent corrective surgery.
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Fraturas Ósseas/cirurgia , Garantia da Qualidade dos Cuidados de Saúde , Adolescente , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Fixação Interna de Fraturas , Fraturas Ósseas/classificação , Fraturas Ósseas/diagnóstico , Alemanha , Humanos , Lactente , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/etiologia , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/prevenção & controle , Guias de Prática Clínica como Assunto , Fraturas Salter-HarrisRESUMO
Among children, thyroid disease rarely points to a particular surgical therapy and therefore requires a very specific surgical approach as well as close interdisciplinary cooperation between pediatricians, pediatric surgeons, and nuclear medicine practitioners, in particular regarding the follow-up. As a consequence, excellent functional and long-terms results can be achieved. The extent of the radical surgery pertaining to the small, encapsulated papillary carcinoma is still being discussed and investigated.
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Carcinoma Papilar/cirurgia , Neoplasia Endócrina Múltipla/cirurgia , Doenças da Glândula Tireoide/cirurgia , Neoplasias da Glândula Tireoide/cirurgia , Adolescente , Carcinoma Papilar/diagnóstico , Carcinoma Papilar/patologia , Criança , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Neoplasia Endócrina Múltipla/diagnóstico , Neoplasia Endócrina Múltipla/patologia , Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/diagnóstico , Doenças da Glândula Tireoide/diagnóstico , Doenças da Glândula Tireoide/patologia , Testes de Função Tireóidea , Glândula Tireoide/patologia , Neoplasias da Glândula Tireoide/diagnóstico , Neoplasias da Glândula Tireoide/patologia , Tireoidectomia , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
Within the daily workload at a ward there is a considerable amount of information processing. It is the task of a systematic management of hospital information systems to provide health professionals with the right information in the right place at the right time. This paper deals with the consequences for the management of hospital information systems if health professional workstations are introduced as a means for this information logistic and with the experiences gained in the Heidelberg University Hospital. Health professional workstations are formally defined in the context of a three level graph-based model of hospital information systems. It is found that health professional workstations have communication needs not only on the physical level of computer systems in the hospital information system but also on the logical tool level, which is the level of application systems. On this level communication servers or brokers are of considerable importance. In Heidelberg there are about 200 health professional workstations (MEDIAS) in routine use.
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Sistemas Computacionais , Sistemas de Informação Hospitalar , Sistemas Integrados e Avançados de Gestão da Informação , Redes de Comunicação de Computadores , Controle de Custos , Alemanha , Sistemas de Informação Hospitalar/economia , Sistemas de Informação Hospitalar/organização & administração , Microcomputadores , SoftwareRESUMO
A 14 years old boy with Kirner's deformity is demonstrated. He has the typical radial and volar deviation of the terminal phalanges of the 5th finger. Nature and inheritance of the disease are discussed. We assume inborn ossification disturbances. Most authors recommend to avoid any therapy. But we feel that nowadays it is possible to use plaster splints in young children or to do a corrective operation in older ones with good success.
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Dedos/anormalidades , Deformidades Congênitas da Mão/diagnóstico por imagem , Adolescente , Dedos/diagnóstico por imagem , Seguimentos , Deformidades Congênitas da Mão/genética , Deformidades Congênitas da Mão/reabilitação , Humanos , Masculino , Radiografia , ContençõesRESUMO
Between 1970 and 1993 29 fractures of the intercondylar eminence were seen in children with almost the same number of cases showing no or minor displacement as those requiring open reduction for major dislocation. Combined knee injury must be suspected the higher the patient's age and the more pronounced the displacement of the fragment. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has gained diagnostic predominance. Arthroscopy remains important for surgical management, especially of associated meniscus and cartilage damage. Early puncture of hemarthrosis is essential. Closed management is the therapy for nondisplaced fragments or those with bone contact or only tuberculum fractures--while displaced fragments require operative reduction. Arthroscopy-aided wire fixation is the preferred technique, followed by open reduction using absorbable suture material (wire in special cases). Traction screws should be used only in older children with large fragments. Our series show good late results because occasional function impairment with knee instability tends to normalize with growth. Corrective orthopedic procedures--if at all--are required only for juveniles or adults.