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There is a lack of diagnostic tools for early risk stratification of cognitive outcome in infants born preterm and infants with asphyxia. Using auditory event-related potentials and mismatch response, we aimed to assess possible differences in early attention and learning, as a marker for brain maturation to subsequently improve the allocation of early neurodevelopmental support.

This cross-sectional study included 22 very preterm infants (gestational age (GA) < 32 weeks), eight term infants with asphyxia and 35 healthy term infants. An auditory oddball-paradigm with three consecutive stimulation blocks, separated by a two-minute break, was used as a cognitive discrimination task to assess attention and habituation.

The peak-to-peak analysis in the group comparisons showed no significant differences for the first stimulation block. In term healthy infants and term infants after asphyxia, no significant differences were found in amplitudes between block one and three. Preterm infants showed significannts when they were evaluated at term corrected age. Most infants did not show any electrophysiologically measurable learning effect indicating habituation or dishabituation. The small sample size of this study is a clear limitation. Therefore, the results must be evaluated with caution, especially regarding their potential predictive value for future cognitive development of infants with a developmental risk. However, our study underlines the possibility of an electrophysiological evaluation as a feasible tool to assess very early cognition in infants.Individuals who cannot make sense of a significant death are more likely to experience bereavement complications than those who are able to reconcile their loss with existing or newly-developed ways of understanding the world. Digital Storytelling, a multi-media narrative technique, has been identified as a potential facilitator of meaning-making processes. In this secondary qualitative analysis, researchers described the meaning-making processes evident in bereaved individuals' (N = 14) personally-created digital stories, identifying sense making, benefit finding, continuing bonds, shifting identity, and addressing unfinished business. Findings support prior research and enrich emerging understandings of arts-based interventions as tools to facilitate and communicate meaning-making processes.Pediatric asthma seriously endangers the well-being and health of children worldwide. Baicalin (BA) protects against diverse disorders, including asthma. Therefore, this study explored the mechanism of BA in pediatric asthma. The ovalbumin (OVA)-induced asthmatic mouse model was established to evaluate BA efficacy from aspects of oxidative stress, inflammation, blood cells in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and collagen deposition. Differentially expressed microRNAs (miRs) in BA-treated mice were analyzed. Effects of BA on PDGF-BB-induced smooth muscle cells (SMCs) were assessed. miR downstream mRNA and the related pathway were predicted and verified, and their effects on asthmatic mice were evaluated. BA effectively reversed OVA-induced oxidative stress and inflammation, as well as decreased the number of total cells, eosinophils and neutrophils in BALF, and collagen deposition. miR-103 was significantly upregulated after BA treatment. BA inhibited the abnormal proliferation of PDGF-BB-induced SMCs, which was prevented by miR-103 knockdown. miR-103 targeted TLR4 and regulated the extent of NF-κB phosphorylation. In vivo, miR-103 inhibition weakened the alleviating effects of BA on asthma, which was then reversed after silencing of TLR4. We highlighted that BA has the potency to halt the pediatric asthma progression via miR-103 upregulation and the TLR4/NF-κB axis inhibition.
School-based telehealth (SBTH) offers an opportunity to overcome traditional barriers to providing comprehensive asthma care for children. Guided by an implementation science framework considering factors internal and external to the school setting, we characterized barriers and facilitators to asthma care within an existing SBTH program available in over 50 under-resourced South Carolina schools.

This cross-sectional study assessed barriers and facilitators to SBTH asthma care delivery using web-based surveys of school nurses, specifically addressing school implementation of telehealth methods. Surveys evaluated practices and nurse and school-specific factors related to telehealth implementation including perceived barriers, organizational readiness and self-efficacy. Utilizers were schools who completed 1-10 average visits per month while non-utilizers completed less than 1 average visit per month. Descriptive statistics were performed to characterize perceptions in utilizers versus non-utilizers.

Of resourced population. Addressing these barriers when expanding telehealth services may promote utilization of telehealth.
A subset of chronic pancreatitis patients respond poorly to pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is considered to be one of the major reasons for this poor response. Previous studies have reported a wide range of prevalence of SIBO in patients with chronic pancreatitis. We aimed to assess the prevalence of SIBO in chronic pancreatitis using quantitative jejunal aspirate culture and glucose hydrogen breath test (GHBT). The sensitivity and specificity of GHBT for the diagnosis of SIBO in chronic pancreatitis were also estimated.

Newly diagnosed chronic pancreatitis patients were recruited into the study. A detailed history and relevant laboratory tests were done. All patients underwent an endoscopy and jejunal fluid aspiration for bacterial cultures and GHBT to detect SIBO. The results of GHBT were compared with jejunal fluid aspirate culture.

The jejunal aspirate culture was positive in 18/48 (37.5%) patients while the GHBT showed that 14/48 (29%) patients had SIBO. Selleckchem ALLN The sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value of GHBT in our study was 44.4, 80, 57.14 and 70.59%, respectively.

SIBO is not uncommon in chronic pancreatitis patients. One-third of our study population had SIBO. GHBT has low sensitivity but had high specificity in the diagnosis of SIBO in chronic pancreatitis.
SIBO is not uncommon in chronic pancreatitis patients. One-third of our study population had SIBO. GHBT has low sensitivity but had high specificity in the diagnosis of SIBO in chronic pancreatitis.
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