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  • Article
  • Open Access
1,493 Views
12 Pages

Association of Meconium-Stained Amniotic Fluid and Histological Chorioamnionitis with Fetal Inflammatory Response in Preterm Deliveries

  • Dóra Csenge Balogh,
  • Kinga Kovács,
  • Őzike Zsuzsanna Kovács,
  • Eszter Regős,
  • Attila Fintha,
  • Ágnes Harmath,
  • Miklós Szabó,
  • Ákos Gasparics and
  • Péter Varga

7 April 2025

Background: The importance and etiology of meconium-stained amniotic fluid (MSAF) in preterm pregnancies are still poorly understood. Among other factors, intrauterine inflammation is proposed to be a pathophysiological change associated with MSAF. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,722 Views
15 Pages

Maximum Somatic Allele Frequency-Adjusted Blood-Based Tumor Mutational Burden Predicts the Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

  • Yiting Dong,
  • Yixiang Zhu,
  • Minglei Zhuo,
  • Xiaomin Chen,
  • Yinpeng Xie,
  • Jianchun Duan,
  • Hua Bai,
  • Shiguang Hao,
  • Zicheng Yu and
  • Yuting Yi
  • + 6 authors

17 November 2022

Introduction: Recent studies exhibited the unstable prediction ability of blood-based tumor mutational burden (bTMB) when predicting the response of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) therapy in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Circ...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,722 Views
18 Pages

Approach to the Connection between Meconium Consistency and Adverse Neonatal Outcomes: A Retrospective Clinical Review and Prospective In Vitro Study

  • Hueng-Chuen Fan,
  • Fung-Wei Chang,
  • Ying-Ru Pan,
  • Szu-I Yu,
  • Kuang-Hsi Chang,
  • Chuan-Mu Chen and
  • Ching-Ann Liu

24 November 2021

Whether meconium-stained amniotic fluid (MSAF) serves as an indicator of fetal distress is under debate; however, the presence of MSAF concerns both obstetricians and pediatricians because meconium aspiration is a major contributor to neonatal morbid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,808 Views
10 Pages

31 December 2024

Intra-amniotic infection (IAI), also known as chorioamnionitis, is a major cause of maternal and neonatal infection that occurs during pregnancy, labor and delivery, or in the postpartum period. Conditions such as meconium-stained amniotic fluid (MSA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,659 Views
9 Pages

15 August 2025

Background: In 2016, the neonatal resuscitation program (NRP) changed its recommendation to perform endotracheal suctioning in non-vigorous neonates born through meconium-stained amniotic fluid (MSAF). The objective of this study is to compare outcom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,460 Views
9 Pages

Neonatal Outcomes of Term Infants Born with Meconium-Stained Amniotic Fluid

  • Carlo Dani,
  • Martina Ciarcià,
  • Vittoria Barone,
  • Mariarosaria Di Tommaso,
  • Federico Mecacci,
  • Lucia Pasquini and
  • Simone Pratesi

26 April 2023

Background Meconium-stained amniotic fluid (MSAF) is considered an alarming sign of possible fetal compromise and it has recently been reported that neonatal outcome correlates with the degree of meconium thickness. Methods We retrospectively studied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,585 Views
14 Pages

31 March 2024

The structure and function of retinal vessels play a crucial role in diagnosing and treating various ocular and systemic diseases. Therefore, the accurate segmentation of retinal vessels is of paramount importance to assist a clinical diagnosis. U-Ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
6,829 Views
22 Pages

11 January 2019

Increasing demand for higher safety of motors can be noticed in recent years. Developing of new fault detection techniques is related with higher safety of motors. This paper presents fault detection technique of an electric impact drill (EID), coffe...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,294 Views
13 Pages

Routine Tracheal Intubation and Meconium Suctioning in Non-Vigorous Neonates with Meconium-Stained Amniotic Fluid: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Maria Dikou,
  • Theodoros Xanthos,
  • Ioannis Dimitropoulos,
  • Zoi Iliodromiti,
  • Rozeta Sokou,
  • Georgios Kafalidis,
  • Theodora Boutsikou and
  • Nicoletta Iacovidou

The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is the comparison of endotracheal intubation and suctioning to immediate resuscitation without intubation of non-vigorous infants > 34 weeks’ gestation delivered through meconium-stained am...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
5,782 Views
21 Pages

In the paper, the author presents acoustic-based fault diagnosis of a commutator motor (CM). Five states of the commutator motor were considered: healthy commutator motor, commutator motor with broken rotor coil, commutator motor with shorted stator...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
19,068 Views
9 Pages

Neonatal Respiratory Distress Secondary to Meconium Aspiration Syndrome

  • Arielle L. Olicker,
  • Thomas M. Raffay and
  • Rita M. Ryan

23 March 2021

Infants born through meconium-stained amniotic fluid (MSAF) are 100 times more likely than infants born through clear amniotic fluid to develop respiratory distress in the neonatal period. Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) is a common cause of respi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,007 Views
13 Pages

On-Farm Multi-Environment Evaluation of Selected Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Cultivars in South Africa

  • Assefa B. Amelework,
  • Michael W. Bairu,
  • Roelene Marx,
  • Lawrence Owoeye,
  • Mark Laing and
  • Sonja L. Venter

1 December 2022

Cassava is an important starchy root crop grown globally in tropical and subtropical regions. The ability of cassava to withstand difficult growing conditions and long-term storability underground makes it a resilient crop, contributing to food and n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,523 Views
14 Pages

Research on the Multi-Element Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique in Breast Ultrasound Imaging, Based on the Ring Array

  • Yang Wu,
  • Wendong Zhang,
  • Xingling Shao,
  • Yuhua Yang,
  • Tian Zhang,
  • Miao Lei,
  • Zhihao Wang,
  • Bizhen Gao and
  • Shumin Hu

16 October 2022

As a widely clinical detection method, ultrasonography (US) has been applied to the diagnosis of breast cancer. In this paper, the multi-element synthetic aperture focusing (M-SAF) is applied to the ring array of breast ultrasonography (US) imaging,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,658 Views
20 Pages

Surface defects during steel production can severely impact product quality and safety, making defect detection crucial. To improve the precision and performance of conventional approaches, we introduce FMV-YOLO, a model for detecting steel surface d...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
5,095 Views
21 Pages

15 December 2018

Most faults can stop a motor, and time is lost in fixing the damaged motor. This is a reason why it is essential to develop fault-detection methods. This paper describes the acoustic-based fault detection of two commutator motors: the commutator moto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,073 Views
19 Pages

29 March 2025

High-resolution multispectral remote sensing imagery is widely used in critical fields such as coastal zone management and marine engineering. However, obtaining such images at a low cost remains a significant challenge. To address this issue, we pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,324 Views
30 Pages

19 December 2024

Integrating infrared and visible-light images facilitates a more comprehensive understanding of scenes by amalgamating dual-sensor data derived from identical environments. Traditional CNN-based fusion techniques are predominantly confined to local f...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2,597 Views
21 Pages

Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Neonates with Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (PPHN): A Systematic Review

  • Saad Alhumaid,
  • Muneera Alabdulqader,
  • Zainab Al Alawi,
  • Mohammed A. Al Ghamdi,
  • Mohammed A Alabdulmuhsin,
  • Hassan I Al Hassar,
  • Hussain Ahmed Alsouaib,
  • Hussain Ali Alhassan,
  • Hassan Al-Helal and
  • Sameer Ahmed Almoraihel
  • + 12 authors

28 October 2024

PPHN is a common cause of neonatal respiratory failure and is still a serious condition that is associated with high mortality. Objectives: To analyze the clinical characteristics and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in neonates with PPHN to identify...