Increasing the dose of oral vitamin K prophylaxis and its effect on bleeding risk
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DOI: 10.1007/s00431-019-03391-y
Abstract: Vitamin K prophylaxis in infancy aims to prevent life-threatening vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB). The Dutch prophylactic oral daily regimen was increased sixfold from 25 to 150 μg because of a high failure rate. To evaluate… read more here.
Keywords: per 100; 100 000; prophylaxis; oral vitamin ... See more keywords
Intracranial Hemorrhage in a Previously Healthy Infant
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cpem.2020.100763
Abstract: Abstract We describe a 5-week-old infant who presented in cardiac arrest and was later found to have intracranial hemorrhage due to late vitamin K deficiency bleeding. The infant had not received vitamin K prophylaxis following… read more here.
Keywords: hemorrhage previously; intracranial hemorrhage; hemorrhage; infant ... See more keywords
The ethics of parental refusal of newborn vitamin K prophylaxis
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DOI: 10.1111/jpc.13364
Abstract: Vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) of the newborn is a serious medical event that has received recent media attention in relation to four cases reported from Nashville, USA. The Nashville parents had declined vitamin K,… read more here.
Keywords: refusal newborn; parental refusal; newborn vitamin; ethics parental ... See more keywords
Impact of Vitamin D in Prophylaxis and Treatment in Tuberculosis Patients
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DOI: 10.3390/ijms23073860
Abstract: Vitamin D plays a crucial role in many infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis (TB), that remains one of the world’s top infectious killers with 1.5 million deaths from TB in 2021. Vitamin D suppresses the… read more here.
Keywords: tuberculosis patients; impact vitamin; tuberculosis; treatment tuberculosis ... See more keywords