Setting. Special Care Baby Unit, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Nigeria. Subjects. All newborn infants with observed seizures admitted between January 2006 and December 2008. Results. Of 866 neonates admitted, 59 (6.8%) had seizures; of these 43 (72.9%) had...
Neuromonitoring in neonatal critical care part I: neonatal encephalopathy and neonates with possible seizures Mohamed El-Dib Nicholas S. Abend on behalf of the Newborn Brain Society Guidelines and Publications Committee Review Article7 Dec 2022 Pediatric Research Cerebroprotective actions of hydrogen ...
This reported case is to our knowledge the first description of an unrecognized mixed connective tissue disease in the mother with an unusual clinical manifestation in the newborn, comprising skin lesions, neurological damage and non-typical antibody constellation. Case presentation We report on a ...
Neonatal seizures are the most common manifestation of neurological disorders in the newborn period and an important determinant of outcome. Overall, for babies born at full term, mortality following seizures has improved in the last decade, typical current mortality rates being 10% (range: 7-16%...
Hellström-Westas SL, Westgren U, Rosen I, Svenningsen NW. Lidocaine for treatment of severe seizures in newborn infants, I. clinical effects and cerebral electrical activity monitoring. Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica 77: 79–84, 1988 Henninger GR. Lithium effects on cerebral cortical function in...
Babies born to women with lupus are generally healthy. Rarely, however, neonatal lupus can occur in the newborn. Neonatal lupus can cause skin rash or disturbance of the baby's heart rhythm. This can require special medications for the infant and even a temporary pacemaker to keep the heart...
Pyridoxine-dependent seizures associated with hypophosphatasia in a newborn. J Child Neurol 2002;17: 222Y24Nunes ML,Mugnol F,Bica I. Pyridoxine-dependent seizures associated with hypophosphatasia in a newborn[J].Journal of Child Neurology 2002,17....
Neonatal seizures are the most common manifestation of neurological disorders in the newborn period and an important determinant of outcome. Overall, for babies born at full term, mortality following seizures has improved in the last decade, typical current mortality rates being 10% (range: 7-16%...
Her serum sodium was noted to be low at 111 mmol/litre as was that of her newborn baby. She needed anti-convulsants with subsequent intubation to stop the fitting and was commenced on a hypertonic saline infusion with frequent monitoring of serum sodium. There is a risk of long-term ...
Our cases indicate that vitamin D deficiency may also be emerging as an important cause of hypocalcemic seizures in the newborn. It is unclear whether implementation of recommendations for vitamin D supplementation for breast-fed infants would have prevented seizures in these cases. More attention ...