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S E Perry

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Fetal surgery for congenital hydronephrosis.

Fetal surgery is a treatment approach to anatomic lesions which, if left untreated, may be incompatible with life. Diagnosis of conditions amenable to surgical treatment has become possible because of recent advances in ultrasonography. Correction of such lesions may interrupt the pathologic process and enable the infant to live a normal life. Currently, fetal surgical treatment at the University of California, San Francisco, is limited to correction of posterior urethral valve obstruction and ureteropelvic junction obstruction. Two procedures have been used at the university for surgical correction of anomalies of the urinary tract of the fetus: an open technique and a closed technique. The procedures, parental responses to the treatment, and the role of the clinical specialist in the care of patients having this experimental surgery are described.

Ethics, Nursing

Parents' perceptions of their newborn following structured interactions.

A study of 57 married couples and their normal-term firstborn infants investigated (a) if parents' perceptions are related to behavior of infants and (b) if a structured interaction of parent with infant positively influences parents' perceptions of their infant. Mothers, fathers, or parents in three experimental groups participated in a structured interaction with their infants. Parents and infants in a control group received no structured interaction. The interaction consisted of the parents assessing their infant using the Mother's Assessment of the Behavior of Her Infant (MABI). Infants' behaviors were measured with the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) and parents' perceptions with the Neonatal Perception Inventories (NPI). There was no relation between infant behavior and parental perception. The factor structure of NBAS items was similar to that found by other investigators. The structured interaction differentially affected perception scores of mothers at Time 2 (F 3, 53 = 3.96, p = .013). Perceptions of mothers and fathers achieved some congruence over time (Time 1, r = .18, p = .189; Time 2, r = .45, p = .001; Time 3, r = .41, p = .002). Seven other variables contributed more to variance in mothers' than fathers' perceptions.

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Nursing ethics.

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Ethics, Nursing