Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography results for the treatment of symptomatic choledocholithiasis in pregnant patients: A recent experience at a secondary care hospital i... by E. Arce-Liévano, I. del Río-Suárez, C. Valenzuela-Salazar, R. Délano-Alonso, O. Bada-Yllán, J.J. Herrera-Esquivel, M. Moreno-Portillo

“…At follow-up at 6 months, the infants had a mean weight of 7.1 kg and a mean length of 66.94 cm. …”
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La biotecnología como herramienta para la propagación, conservación y el mejoramiento genético del guayabo by Juliette Valdés-Infante Herrero, Narciso Nerdo Rodríguez Medina, Lien González, Josefa Bárbara Velázquez Palenzuela, Domingo Rivero Rodríguez, Darío Gaspar Sourd Martínez, Felina Martínez González, Julio Alberto Rodríguez Rodríguez

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Results of the First Steps study: a randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of the Group Family Nurse Partnership (gFNP) programme compared with usual care in improving... by Jacqueline Barnes, Jane Stuart, Elizabeth Allen, Stavros Petrou, Joanna Sturgess, Jane Barlow, Geraldine Macdonald, Helen Spiby, Dipti Aistrop, Edward Melhuish, Sungwook Kim, Joshua Pink, Jessica Datta, Diana Elbourne

“…Data sources: Interviews with participants at baseline and when infants were aged 2, 6 and 12 months. Cost information from nurse weekly logs and other service delivery data. …”
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Recommendations for Implementing Lung Cancer Screening with Low-Dose Computed Tomography in Europe by Giulia Veronesi, David R. Baldwin, Claudia I. Henschke, Simone Ghislandi, Sergio Iavicoli, Matthijs Oudkerk, Harry J. De Koning, Joseph Shemesh, John K. Field, Javier J. Zulueta, Denis Horgan, Lucia Fiestas Navarrete, Maurizio Valentino Infante, Pierluigi Novellis, Rachael L. Murray, Nir Peled, Cristiano Rampinelli, Gaetano Rocco, Witold Rzyman, Giorgio Vittorio Scagliotti, Martin C. Tammemagi, Luca Bertolaccini, Natthaya Triphuridet, Rowena Yip, Alexia Rossi, Suresh Senan, Giuseppe Ferrante, Kate Brain, Carlijn van der Aalst, Lorenzo Bonomo, Dario Consonni, Jan P. Van Meerbeeck, Patrick Maisonneuve, Silvia Novello, Anand Devaraj, Zaigham Saghir, Giuseppe Pelosi

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Evolução da intervenção coronária percutânea entre 2004‐2013. Atividade em Portugal segundo o Registo Nacional de Cardiologia de Intervenção by Hélder Pereira, Rui Campante Teles, Marco Costa, Pedro Canas da Silva, Rui Cruz Ferreira, Vasco da Gama Ribeiro, Ricardo Santos, Pedro Farto e Abreu, Henrique Cyrne de Carvalho, Jorge Marques, Renato Fernandes, Vítor Brandão, Dinis Martins, António Drummond, João Luís Pipa, Luís Seca, João Calisto, José Baptista, Fernando Matias, José Sousa Ramos, Francisco Pereira‐Machado, João Carlos Silva, Manuel Almeida

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Topical Propranolol Hydrochloride Nanoemulsion: A Promising Approach Drug Delivery for Infantile Hemangiomas by Taif M. Abdullah, Khalid, Kadhem Al-Kinani

“… Infantile hemangioma (IH) is a prevalent vascular tumor that affects up to 10% of infants worldwide. If left untreated, IH can lead to a permanent notable physical disfigurement due to skin lesions' ulceration and scarring. …”
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Breastfeeding: Mothers and health practitioners in the context of private medical care in Gauteng by Diana du Plessis

“…Despite the well-documented health benefits of breastfeeding and recommendations by the Department of Health for women to exclusively breastfeed for approximately the first six months of life and continuation beyond one year, a large percentage of South African women do not breastfeed their infants, or only do so for a short period of time. …”
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of the current evidence on the duration of protection by bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccination against tuberculosis by I Abubakar, L Pimpin, C Ariti, R Beynon, P Mangtani, JAC Sterne, PEM Fine, PG Smith, M Lipman, D Elliman, JM Watson, LN Drumright, PF Whiting, E Vynnycky, LC Rodrigues

“…BCG vaccination efficacy was usually high, and varied little by form of disease (with higher protection against meningeal and military tuberculosis) or study design when BCG vaccination was given only to infants or to children after strict screening for tuberculin sensitivity. …”
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O Internato Médico nos Hospitais CUF by João Paulo Farias

“…É o que já estamos a fazer nos Hospitais CUF Descobertas em Imuno-Alergologia, Ortopedia, Otorrinolaringologia e Pediatria e no Hospital CUF Infante Santo em Otorrinolaringologia, especialidades em que já temos idoneidade formativa. …”
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Vacina acelular contra pertússis para adolescentes Acellular pertussis vaccine for adolescents by Aroldo P. de Carvalho, Eliane Mara Cesário Pereira

“…An increased number of cases was also observed among non-immunized or partially immunized infants. Licensure of the DTP vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis formulated specifically for patients over 10 years of age (Tdap) suggests the possibility of controlling pertussis in the most affected age groups over the past few years. …”
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O efeito da eritropoetina humana recombinante no tratamento da anemia da prematuridade The effect of recombinant human erythropoietin on the treatment of anemia of prematurity by Vera Lúcia L. Rocha, Ana Cláudia W. Benjamin, Renato S. Procianoy

“…The administration of 700 U/kg/week erythropoietin in premature infants with gestational age up to 33 weeks and birthweight up to 1550 g stimulates erythropoiesis and significantly reduces excessive blood transfusion requirements. …”
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Does Perceptual Processing of Initial Consonant Clusters Lead to the Perception of Illusive Vowels in Persian? by Janane Shalpush, Vahid Sadeghi

“…Davidson (2007) has shown that nine month old infants are sensitive to the phonotactic patterns of the words in their language and some researchers have argued that such regularities could be useful in helping the child to discover words. …”
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Sistema auxiliar para colocar el marco estereotáctico en el cráneo by J Jesús Nieto-Miranda, Jöns Sánchez-Aguilar, Manuel Faraón Carbajal-Romero, Héctor Castañeda-Infante

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Components of an effective large scale program for the prevention of inherited hemoglobin disorders; the paradigm of Greece by D. Loukopoulos, E. Voskaridou, M. Tsalkani

“…The overall evaluation of the the program is reflected in the number of infants who were admitted to the pediatric clinics of the country in need of transfusion over the years the program was functioning. …”
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Short-term relevance of lower respiratory viral coinfection in inpatients under 2 years of age by Joana Gil, Sofia Almeida, Carolina Constant, Sara Pinto, Rosário Barreto, José Melo Cristino, Maria do Céu Machado, Teresa Bandeira

“…Discussion: Our study showed a significant proportion of viral coinfections in young infants admitted with LRTI and confirmed previous data showing that prescription was more frequent in inpatients with viral coinfections, without an association with worst clinical outcome. …”
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Severe bacterial neonatal infections in Madagascar, Senegal, and Cambodia: A multicentric community-based cohort study. by Bich-Tram Huynh, Elsa Kermorvant-Duchemin, Rattanak Chheang, Frederique Randrianirina, Abdoulaye Seck, Elisoa Hariniaina Ratsima, Zafitsara Zo Andrianirina, Jean-Baptiste Diouf, Armya Youssouf Abdou, Sophie Goyet, Véronique Ngo, Siyin Lach, Long Pring, Touch Sok, Michael Padget, Fatoumata Diene Sarr, Laurence Borand, Benoit Garin, Jean-Marc Collard, Perlinot Herindrainy, Agathe de Lauzanne, Muriel Vray, Elisabeth Delarocque-Astagneau, Didier Guillemot, BIRDY study group

“…A main limitation of the study was the lack of samples from a significant proportion of infants with pBSI including 35 neonatal deaths. Without these samples, bacterial infection and resistance profiles could not be confirmed.…”
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Eleanor Sweeney - Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych) by Sweeney, E

“…</p></br> <p><strong>Service improvement project: Understanding the psychological needs of parents of whose babies have received care on a Neonatal Care Unit, and exploring the barriers to meeting these</strong></p> <p><strong>Objectives:</strong> Parents of infants admitted to a Neonatal Unit (NNU) can experience elevated distress, which can have negative impacts on both parent and baby wellbeing. …”

Evaluation of the Growth Assessment Protocol (GAP) for antenatal detection of small for gestational age: The DESiGN cluster randomised trial by Matias C. Vieira, Sophie Relph, Walter Muruet-Gutierrez, Maria Elstad, Bolaji Coker, Natalie Moitt, Louisa Delaney, Chivon Winsloe, Andrew Healey, Kirstie Coxon, Alessandro Alagna, Annette Briley, Mark Johnson, Louise M. Page, Donald Peebles, Andrew Shennan, Baskaran Thilaganathan, Neil Marlow, Lesley McCowan, Christoph Lees, Deborah A. Lawlor, Asma Khalil, Jane Sandall, Andrew Copas, Dharmintra Pasupathy, on behalf of the DESiGN Collaborative Group

“…</h4> Antenatal detection and appropriate management of small for gestational age (SGA) infants is a recognised strategy to prevent stillbirth; previous reports have suggested the rate of stillbirth is halved when SGA is antenatally detected, compared to undetected SGA. …”
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One-shot diagnostic and prognostic assessment in intermediate- to high-risk acute pulmonary embolism: The role of multidetector computed tomography by Rui Baptista, Inês Santiago, Elisabete Jorge, Rogério Teixeira, Paulo Mendes, Luís Curvo-Semedo, Graça Castro, Pedro Monteiro, Filipe Caseiro-Alves, Luís A. Providência

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O-21 EVIDENCE OF SUBOPTIMAL PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES ON HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN THE AMERICAS: A HUGE DEBT OF OUR REGION by Luis Antonio Díaz, Gustavo Ayares, Francisco Idalsoaga, Jorge Arnold, Blanca Norero, Oscar Corsi, Gonzalo Pizarro, Sergio García, Eduardo Fuentes-López, Edmundo Martinez, Patricia Guerra Salazar, Roberta C. Araújo, Mario Reis Alvares-Da-Silva, Florencia D. Pollarsky, Nelia Hernandez, Juan Carlos Restrepo, Mirtha Infante, Enrique Carrera, Abel Sanchez, Marcos Girala, Martín Padilla, Javier Díaz, Martín Tagle, Melisa Dirchwolf, Manuel Mendizabal, Mariana Lazo, Catterina Ferreccio, Thomas G. Cotter, Mayur Brahmania, Nahum Méndez-Sánchez, Juan Pablo Roblero, Winston Dunn, Patrick S. Kamath, Ashwani K. Singal, Ramón Bataller, Marco Arrese, Juan Pablo Arab

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