Respondents' judgements varied significantly depending on the condition in question; for example, 46% said withdrawal of life support was "nearly always" justified for trisomy 13 compared with 23% for severe short gut and 2% for Down Syndrome. Most pairwise comparisons of responses to varying ...
www.trisomy.org View chapterExplore book Critical Care Neurology Part I C.B. Maciel, ... D.M. Greer, in Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 2017 Conclusion Significant variability in all steps of management of the potential organ donor exists across the world; hence, there is a need for global...
Furthermore, to support social organizations, health service providers and researchers should consider the development of intermediations for the health enhancing and life quality promoting of DS children. 1. Introduction DS or Trisomy 21 is the most prevalent reason for cognitive disabilities caused by...
causing a greater risk to my health as well. Having had the “easier” decision to terminate a pregnancy with the “unviable” Trisomy 13 prognosis, I often wonder about the heartache involved for parents who decide to terminate a pregnancy with Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) or a less fatal or...
Third, Ped-RESCUERS could help physicians anticipate the risk of mortality for similar patient groups prior to ECMO. Study limitations Ped-RESCUERS cannot predict if an individual child will benefit from ECMO support, because this tool is derived from a sample of patients who all received ECMO. ...
FISH analyses showed the majority of tumor pericytes (mean 76%, range 58%–83%) carried the same genetic alterations (CEP-7 polysomy, EGFR trisomy or amplification, CEP-10 loss, or PTEN loss) as cancer cells in 49 GBMs (Figures 4A and 4B), indicating that tumor pericytes are commonly ...
[11]. Importantly, despite the low survival rates and severe disabilities, 97% of parents described their child with trisomy 13 or 18 as happy, with parental reports that these children enriched their family irrespective of longevity [11]. Thus, the changing and growing NICU LLC complement ...