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Absence of relationship between ceruloplasmin concentrations and carboxyhemoglobin in newborn infants with jaundice of unknown etiology
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HEMOLYTIC CRISIS IN A G6PD DEFICIENT FEMALE NEWBORN-INFANT WHOSE MOTHER INGESTED FAVA BEANS BEFORE DELIVERY
No full textFavism in a female newborn infant whose mother ingested fava beans before delivery
No full textWe describe a case of favism in a female newborn infant with glucose-6- phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency whose mother had ingested fava beans 5 days before delivery. At birth there were clinical and hematologic signs of hemolytic anemia. hemoglobinuria, and no blood group immunization. Study of the G6PD activity and 2-deoxy-glucose-6-phosphate utilization rate revealed that the infant and the mother were heterozygous for G6PD deficiency
Increased bilirubin production, ceruloplasmin concentrations and hyperbilirubinaemia in full-term newborn infants
No full textCeruloplasmin possesses antioxidant activity in vitro, but such a property has not been substantiated in vivo so far. However, it has been suggested that the lack of factors protective against oxidative haemolysis might have a role in neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia. Ceruloplasmin and alphafetoprotein concentrations were measured in cord blood in 78 unselected fullterm singleton newborn infants without G6PD deficiency and haemolytic disease of the newborn; in the same infants, the carboxyhaemoglobin level was assessed on the fourth day of life and taken as an index of bilirubin production. The relationship between these variables and maximum bilirubin level in the first 4 days was studied by multiple regression analysis. High carboxyhaemoglobin levels and low ceruloplasmin concentrations, but not alphafetoprotein resulted, associated with hyperbilirubinaemia (P < 0.001), No relationship was found between carboxyhaemoglobin and ceruloplasmin levels, These results exclude an important role for ceruloplasmin in protecting against possible oxidative haemolysis in full-term newborn infants. Ceruloplasmin levels in cord blood are most probably related to hepatic metabolism and are better predictors of hyperbilirubinaemia than alphafetoprotein concentrations
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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