Electrocardiogram in infants of diabetic mothers

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Selected abstracts Canadian Medical Association Journal

The maJonty of the infants in whom positive eluates were found had no jaundice, and a third of the infants in whom eluates could not be found were jaundiced. Therefore, the authors conclude that, "the ability to clute antibody from the red blood cells of the infant ... must be concluded to be of no value in the prediction or confirmation of hemolytic disease due to A or B incompatibility." S. G. Kohl

Vol. 82, Jan. 23, 1960. Carroll, J. J.: Anaesthesia for Obstetrical Ma· noeuvres and Operations, p. 184. Moore, B. P. L., Mcintyre, J., Brown, F., and Read, H. C.: Recognition of the Rare RH Chromosome D-A N<~w Family Study, p. 187.

Irish Journal of Medical Science No . .J04, August, 1959. McCarthy, John R.: Anoxia in the Newborn, p. 343.

Sisson and Whalen: Blood Volume of Infants, p. 43. Plasma volume increased 20 per cent, red cell mass 26 per cent, and total blood value 23 per cent in the first few hours after birth. These changes indicate that "caution should be used in producing an artificial expansion of the neonatal blood volume. Interference with these hemodynamic changes by effecting a transfusion of placental blood seems unwise; the hazards outweigh the rather uncertain benefits." The authors postulated that the average increase of blood/volume (62 mi.) was due to an initial "sequestration" of blood in viscera and the lower parts of the body. This blood wa<; introduced into the circulation as the permanent "vascular and pulmonary patterns" were established. S. G. Kohl

Journal of Pediatrics Vol. 56, January, 1960. *McElfresh, A. E., Kurkcuoglu, M. Vaughan, V. C., III, and Armbruster, R.: Elution of Anti-A and Anti-B Antibody From Erythrocytes of Incompatible 1'\ewhorn Infants, p. 30. *Sisson, T. R. C., and Whalen, L. F..: The Blood Volume of Infants. IlL Alterations in the First Hours After Birth, p. 43. *Page, 0. C" Garland, .J., St<'phens, J. W., and Hare, R. L.: The Electrocardiogram in Infants of Diabetic Mothers, p. 66. McElfresh et al.: Elution of Anti-A and Anti-B Antibody From Erythrocytes of Incom· patible Newborn Infants, p. 30. The authors attempted to prepare eluates from the cord hlood of infants whose blood type (A or B) was incompatible v.-ith that of their mothers (0). It W
Page et al.: Electrocardiogram in Infants of Diabetic Mothers, p. 66. Twenty-one newborn infants of diabetic rnoth('rs were subjected to extensive el0ctroca rdiographic: study. The authors conclude from their "small" series. that "abnormal elt:>ctrocardiograms are uncommon in newborn infants of diabetic mothers. S. G. Kohl

*These article< have been abstracted.

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