Sanidad de los alimentos de origen animal

Nadie ignora lo que representa la producción ganadera para la economía del país. De nuestros ganados depende el alimento básico de la población y el 50 % de las divisas con que las finanzas argentinas atienden sus necesidades externas. Es lógica entonces, la preocupación que sobre los problemas ganaderos tienen todos aquellos que directa o indirectamente, están en el quehacer pecuario. En materia ganadera los objetivos fundamentales de la Nación son claros y coincidentes: aumentar la producción, manteniendo o elevando la calidad y defender el rendimiento de dicha producción contra todos los factores adversos que en una u otra forma hacen disminuir sensiblemente la cantidad de proteína animal que producimos. Para tener una idea de las cantidades de carne que perdemos por distintas causas es conveniente recordar primero, algunas cifras de la existencia animal que puebla nuestros campos.Academia Nacional de Agronomía y Veterinari

Etiology of neonatal seizures and maintenance therapy use: a 10-year retrospective study at Toulouse Children’s hospital

Abstract Background No guidelines exist concerning the maintenance antiepileptic drug to use after neonatal seizures. Practices vary from one hospital to another. The aim of this study was to investigate etiologies and to report on the use of maintenance antiepileptic therapy in our population of full-term neonates presenting neonatal seizures. Methods From January 2004 to October 2014, we retrospectively collected data from all full-term neonates with neonatal seizures admitted to the Children’s Hospital of Toulouse, France. Results Two hundred and forty-three neonates were included (59% males, 48% electroencephalographic confirmation). The frequencies of etiologies of neonatal seizures were: hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) (n = 91; 37%), ischemic infarction (n = 36; 15%), intracranial hemorrhage (n = 29; 12%), intracranial infection (n = 19; 8%), metabolic or electrolyte disorders (n = 9; 3%), inborn errors of metabolism (n = 5; 2%), congenital malformations of the central nervous system (n = 11; 5%), epileptic syndromes (n = 27; 12%) and unknown (n = 16; 7%). A maintenance therapy was prescribed in 180 (72%) newborns: valproic acid (n = 123), carbamazepine (n = 28), levetiracetam (n = 17), vigabatrin (n = 2), and phenobarbital (n = 4). In our cohort, the choice of antiepileptic drug depended mainly on etiology. The average duration of treatment was six months. Conclusions In our cohort, valproic acid was the most frequently prescribed maintenance antiepileptic therapy. However, the arrival on the market of new antiepileptic drugs and a better understanding of the physiopathology of genetic encephalopathies is changing our practice. Trial registration Retrospectively registered. Patient data were reported to the “Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés” under the number 2106953

Arthrogryposis in children: Etiological assessments and preparation of a protocol for etiological investigations

International audienceArthrogryposis is a descriptive term defining a sign. It describes a set of joint contractures, sometimes identifiable in utero, present from birth and nonprogressive. This term includes a heterogeneous group of diseases, of neurological, neuromuscular, genetic or mechanical origin. The common physiopathological mechanism is fetal immobility syndrome. Two types of classification have been developed: a clinical one (types I, II and III) and an etiological one. The main aim of this study was to define a standardized protocol for etiological investigation based on a descriptive analysis of the various etiologies identified in a population of children followed up for arthrogryposis. Its secondary aim was to assess first the comprehensiveness and relevance of the complementary assessment and second the way in which the classifications proposed by Professor Judith Goslin Hall are applied

Sudden death by arrythmia in a 4-year-old boy

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Transforming images: Exploring powerful children

The perception of children as vulnerable, instead of powerful, beings is the opposite of what is found to be the case in the historic evidence. The paper investigates the relationship between ideology and material culture by examining some attitudes towards children found in Scandinavian traditions, which have been connected with archaeological finds. This concerns the area of the Norse Sagas and the comparative studies of religion, folk medicine and folklore in relationship to the tradition of burial alive in the Nordic regions. In relation to children's access to origin of a cosmological order it looks into the Norwegian Odal law of the firstborn and pre-Christian practices concerning the treatment of children

The Late Bronze Age hoard from Bækkedal, Denmark – new evidence for the use of two-horse teams and bridles

In late summer 2014, two metal detectorists located 40 bronze objects on a small hillock west of Gammel Skørping in Himmerland. Eastern Himmerland in particular is renowned for its many Late Bronze Age hoards and the Bækkedal hoard, as the discovery is now known, underlines this trend as it represents a multi-type hoard from Late Bronze Age period V. The hoard, which was undergoing progressive plough disturbance, contains both male and female items and, astonishingly, also several metres of well-preserved leather straps that had once formed parts of bridles and harness. Moreover, several bronze fittings, including cheek pieces and phalerae, were in situ on the leather straps, thereby enabling parts of the bridles to be reconstructed. The many bronze harness-related objects show that the hoard represents the components of bridles for a twohorse team. This article gives a preliminary presentation of the hoard, with a particular focus on the metal objects and horse harness, which are then placed in a broader northwest European context