Fereshteh Ghorat; Hasan Salehi pour
Volume 21, Issue 1 , March and April 2015, , Pages 199-206
Abstract
Background: Pneumothorax and its related mortality isvery commonin infancy and it is intensified among infants who received the mechanical ventilation treatment. Determining the effective factors in the incidence of this disease is very importantin reducing its related mortality. Our study has done with ...
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Background: Pneumothorax and its related mortality isvery commonin infancy and it is intensified among infants who received the mechanical ventilation treatment. Determining the effective factors in the incidence of this disease is very importantin reducing its related mortality. Our study has done with the goal of evaluating Pneumothorax prevalence and the related mortality among infants receiving mechanical ventilation in NICU and determining the effective factors on it.
Method and Materials: This descriptive analytical study was conducted at all infants hospitalized in Mahdieh University children’s Hospital. All infants with post mechanical ventilation Pneumothorax were included in this study and infants’ information about birth weight, gender of the infant, method of delivery, the site of Pneumothorax incidence, treatment with surfactant, rate of PCo2,rate of PIP, the time of Pneumothorax initialization after the mechanical ventilation and the death time after Pneumothorax prevalence were collected. P
MM HASANZADEH TAHERI; F SALEHI; SH AKHBARI; A EHSANBAKHSH
Volume 14, Issue 4 , January and February 2008, , Pages 246-251
Abstract
Background and purpose: Craniosynostosis is the premature fastening of skull sutures, mainly characterized by Apert syndrome and more often associated with syndactyly. This paper is intended to report a neonatal case of Apert syndrome associated with Dandy walker malformation, corpus callosum agenesis ...
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Background and purpose: Craniosynostosis is the premature fastening of skull sutures, mainly characterized by Apert syndrome and more often associated with syndactyly. This paper is intended to report a neonatal case of Apert syndrome associated with Dandy walker malformation, corpus callosum agenesis and pneumothorax simultaneously.
The patient: A female neonate was born in a teaching hospital in Birjand, Iran , who shoured, from birth, respiratory distress, skull malformation and syndactyly in hands and legs. Upon physical examinations, peripheral cyanosis, mild respiratory distress with a decrease in the lung sounds of the left side as well as syndactyly of all fingers and toes were obserrable. Left side pneumothorax was obserred in the chest X-ray; and partial synostosis was obrious in head X-ray. Also, skull Ct scan revealed cystic dilation in the fourth cerebral ventricle (Dandy walker malformation) and corpus callosum agenesis. Pneumothorax was treated using chest-tube insertion, and the patient was referred to neurosurgeon after being reliened from respiratoly distress.
Conclusion: Apert syndrome can occur simultaneously with Dandy walker malformation, corpus callosum agenesis and pueumothorax.