Gordon Ratliff

Objective Prematurity and low birth weight (LBW) are risk factors for increased morbidity and mortality in infants with congenital heart defects (CHDs). We sought to describe survival, inhospital morbidities, and 2-year neurodevelopmental follow-up in LBW infants with CHD. Study design We included infants with birth weight (BW) less then 2,500 g…[Read more]

N,N,N’,N’-Tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) has been one of the most prevalent and successful additives used in iron-catalysis, finding application in reactions as diverse as cross-coupling, C-H activation and borylation. However, the role that TMEDA plays in these reactions remains largely undefined. Herein, studying the iron-catalyzed…[Read more]

We present a series of six critically ill children with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). Key findings of this syndrome include fever, diarrhea, shock, and variable presence of rash, conjunctivitis, extremity edema, and mucous membrane changes.Background It is critical to obtain informed consent from eligible patients to…[Read more]

However, autoantibodies from “pattern group 2” show an inverse pattern, with no staining of the cell bodies and primary dendrites in CA1 and CA3 regions. Electron microscopic experiments disclose that autoantibodies of “pattern group 1 patients” bind to postsynaptic NMDA receptors, while those of “pattern group 2 patients” target presynaptic NMDA…[Read more]

On day 28, all subjects showed 25 (OH)D levels ≥ 20 ng/mL and 93.1% had 25 (OH)D levels ≥ 30 ng/mL. On day 56 and 84, all subjects had 25 (OH)D levels ≥ 30 ng/mL. No serious adverse events occurred during the study. Conclusions normalization of 25 (OH)D serum levels was quickly attained with all the studied regimens. A more refracted sched…[Read more]

As far as we know, this is the first time that cyanidin-3-rutinoside has been identified in blueberries. The extracts inhibited all the tested strains, MICs ranging from 0.4 mg/mL (for Stella Blue extract against UTI P. aeruginosa) to 9.5 mg/mL (for all extracts against UTI K. pneumoniae ssp. pneumoniae). This is the first study that assessed in…[Read more]

The protective ventilation group had lower levels of cf-DNA in arterial (p= 0.02) and hepatic venous blood (p= 0.03) compared with the controls. Transhepatic differences in cf-DNA were lower in the protective group, compared with the controls (p= 0.03). No differences between the groups were noted as regards the transcerebral, trans…[Read more]