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Chapter
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Recent medical advances, such as permissive hypercapnia, inhaled nitric oxide, and the use of oscillatory ventilation, have spared numerous patients from extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), yet many ch...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Neonatal Respiratory Failure
Recent medical advances, such as permissive hypercapnia, inhaled nitric oxide, and the use of oscillatory ventilation, have spared numerous patients from ECMO, yet many children still benefit from this modalit...
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Chapter
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a life-saving technology that affords partial heart/lung bypass for extended periods. ECMO is a supportive rather than a therapeutic modality, as it provides suffi...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Neonatal Respiratory Failure
Recent medical advances, such as permissive hypercapnia, inhaled nitric oxide, and the use of oscillatory ventilation, have spared numerous patients from ECMO, yet many children still benefit from this modalit...
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Extensive heterotopic gastric mucosa of the small intestine: imaging with 99mTc-sodium pertechnetate SPECT/CT enterography
Extensive heterotopic gastric mucosa of the small intestine is a rare, but potentially life-threatening condition characterized by multifocal or long-segment heterotopic gastric mucosa within the bowel lumen t...
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Angiogenesis and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A Expression Associated with Inflammation in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease
Angiogenesis is a component of chronic inflammatory diseases including inflammatory bowel disease. Some studies describe increased angiogenesis associated with acute disease in adult Crohn’s disease and ulcera...
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Pyloric atresia with epidermolysis bullosa: fetal MRI diagnosis with postnatal correlation
Pyloric atresia is an uncommon congenital gastric outlet obstruction, accounting for only 1% of gastrointestinal atresias. Up to 55% of cases have associated anomalies, the most common of which is epidermolysi...
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Crohn’s disease limited to the appendix: a case report in a pediatric patient
In the original description of Crohn’s disease, the appendix was not believed to be involved in the inflammatory process. Later on, case reports started to appear in publications demonstrating that the append...
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Article
Button-Loop Feeding Jejunostomy
Post-pyloric feeding via a surgical jejunostomy allows for enteral nutrition in patients that cannot receive oral or gastric feeding. Regardless of the technique used to create a jejunostomy, complications suc...
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Chapter
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
As of January 2003, more than 19,000 neonates (74% survival) and 4,800 paediatric patients (48% survival) have been treated with ECMO. In the neonatal population, MAS is the most common indication for ECMO and...
