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S Costa

Publications and source records attributed to S Costa.

At least 163 records · Page 9Linked to original sources
PubMed1978

Agar in control of hyperbilirubinemia of full-term newborn infants with erythrocyte G-6-PD deficiency.

40 full-term newborn infants with erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) deficiency were used for a study concerning the effectiveness of agar per os in preventing severe hyperbilirubinemia. 20 randomly selected neonates were given agar (1 g/kg/day) orally in 4 daily doses from their 1st to their 5th day of life. 20 infants were not treated and served as controls. Three exchange transfusions were performed in the experimental as well as in the control group. According to these results, agar does not seem to be effective in preventing severe hyperbilirubinemia, which frequently occurs in newborn infants with erythrocyte G-6-PD deficiency.

Administration, Oral↗
PubMed1976

Salicylamide-Glucuronide formation in children with favism and in their parents.

Salicylamide-glucuronide formation has been determined in 27 children who underwent a favism crisis, 25 parents, and in 25 normal children who served as controls. A highly significant mean lower glucuronide formation was observed in the favism group in respect to the controls. The difference between fabic children and their parents was significant, and between parents and controls there was no significant difference.

Child↗
PubMed1975

Haptoglobin, hemopexin, hemoglobin and hematocrit in newborns with erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.

Hemolysis was studied in 40 G-6-PD-deficient newborn infants, half of whom had bilirubin blood levels within the normal range whereas the others, who were hyperbilirubinemic, underwent exchange transfusion. Hemoglobin, hematocrit, hemopexin and haptoglobin showed no or little differences between either of the two groups and the controls. The findings confirm the authors' assumption expressed elsewhere that this form of hyperbilirubinemia is not hemolytic in nature.

Bilirubin↗
PubMed1974

Phototherapy for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in mature newborn infants with erythrocyte G-6-PD deficiency.

Phototherapy was employed in treatment of newborn infants with erythrocyte G-6-PD deficiency whose serum bilirubin concentrations exceeded 10 mg/100 ml on the second or third day of life. Exchange transfusions were required for two of the 12 treated babies and for six of the 12 control infants. It is noteworthy that exposure to light did not affect the erythrocyte GSH content nor did it increase hemolysis.

Bilirubin↗