VERA LUCIA JORNADA KREBS
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Instituto da Criança, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
LIM/36 - Laboratório de Pediatria Clínica, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
LIM/36 - Laboratório de Pediatria Clínica, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- First-year profile of biomarkers for early detection of renal injury in infants with congenital urinary tract obstruction(2019) KOSTIC, Dusan; BEOZZO, Glenda Priscila Neves dos Santos; COUTO, Saulo Brasil do; KATO, Andre Henrique Teruaki; LIMA, Laila; PALMEIRA, Patricia; KREBS, Vera Lucia Jornada; BUNDUKI, Victor; FRANCISCO, Rossana Pulcineli Vieira; ZUGAIB, Marcelo; CARVALHO, Werther Brunow de; KOCH, Vera Hermina KalikaBackground Diagnosis of renal function impairment and deterioration in congenital urinary tract obstruction (UTO) continues to be extremely challenging. Use of renal biomarkers in this setting may favor early renal injury detection, allowing for a reliable choice of optimal therapeutic options and prevention or minimization of definitive renal damage. Methods This longitudinal, prospective study analyzed the first-year profile of two serum renal biomarkers: creatinine (sCr) and cystatin C (sCyC); and six urinary renal biomarkers: neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1), transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-beta 1), retinol-binding protein (RBP), cystatin C (mu CyC), and microalbuminuria (ALB) in a cohort of 37 infants with UTO divided into three subgroups: 14/37 with unilateral hydro(uretero)nephrosis, 13/37 with bilateral hydro(uretero)nephrosis, and 10/37 patients with lower urinary tract obstruction (LUTO), compared with 24 healthy infants matched by gestational age and birth weight. Results All urine biomarkers showed significantly higher values at the first month of life (p <= 0.009), while NGAL (p = 0.005), TGF-beta 1 (p<0.001), and mu ALB (p<0.001) were high since birth compared to controls. Best single biomarker performances were RBP in bilateral hydronephrosis and LUTO subgroups and KIM-1 in unilateral hydronephrosis subgroup. Best biomarker combination results for all subgroups were obtained by matching RBP with TGF-beta 1 or KIM-1 and NGAL with CyC ([AUC] <= 0.934; sensitivity <= 92.4%; specificity <= 92.8%). Conclusions RBP, NGAL, KIM-1, TGF-beta 1, and CyC, alone and especially in combination, are relatively efficient in identifying surgically amenable congenital UTO and could be of practical use in indicating on-time surgery.
- Early fluid overload is associated with mortality and prolonged mechanical ventilation in extremely low birth weight infants(2020) MATSUSHITA, Felipe Yu; KREBS, Vera Lucia Jornada; FERRARO, Alexandre Archanjo; CARVALHO, Werther Brunow deRecent studies revealed that fluid overload is associated with higher mortality in critically ill children and adults. This study aimed to evaluate the association between fluid overload in the first 3 days of life and mortality in extremely low birth weight infants. This single-center retrospective cohort study included two hundred nineteen newborns with birth weight less than 1000 g who were admitted to the neonatal intensive care between January 2012 and December 2017. Overall mortality was 32.4%, the median gestational age was 27.3 (26.1-29.4) weeks, and birth weight was 770 (610-900) grams. In the group with severe fluid overload, we found a higher rate of deaths (72.2%); mean airway pressure was significantly higher and with longer invasive mechanical ventilation necessity. Conclusion: Early fluid overload in extremely low birth weight infants is associated with higher mortality rate, higher mean airway pressure in invasive mechanically ventilated patients, and longer mechanical ventilation duration in the first 7 days of life.What is Known:center dot Fluid overload is associated with a higher mortality rate and prolonged mechanical ventilation in children and adults.What is New:center dot Fluid overload in the first 72 h of life in an extremely premature infant is associated with higher mortality rate, higher mean airway pressure in invasive mechanically ventilated patients, and longer mechanical ventilation duration the first 7 days of life.
- Definitions of Sepsis in Neonatology: A Fundamental Tool(2015) KREBS, Vera Lucia Jornada; YOSHIDA, Renata de Araujo Monteiro; DELGADO, Artur Figueiredo; CARVALHO, Werther Brunow de
- Identifying clinical phenotypes in extremely low birth weight infants-an unsupervised machine learning approach(2022) MATSUSHITA, Felipe Yu; KREBS, Vera Lucia Jornada; CARVALHO, Werther Brunow deThere is increasing evidence that patient heterogeneity significantly hinders advancement in clinical trials and individualized care. This study aimed to identify distinct phenotypes in extremely low birth weight infants. We performed an agglomerative hierarchical clustering on principal components. Cluster validation was performed by cluster stability assessment with bootstrapping method. A total of 215 newborns (median gestational age 27 (26-29) weeks) were included in the final analysis. Six clusters with different clinical and laboratory characteristics were identified: the ""Mature"" (Cluster 1; n= 60, 27.9%), the mechanically ventilated with ""adequate ventilation"" (Cluster 2; n=40, 18.6%), the mechanically ventilated with ""poor ventilation"" (Cluster 3; n=39, 18.1%), the ""extremely immature"" (Cluster 4; n= 39, 18.1%%), the neonates requiring ""Intensive Resuscitation"" in the delivery room (Cluster 5; n=20, 9.3%), and the ""Early septic"" group (Cluster 6; n= 17, 7.9%). In-hospital mortality rates were 11.7%, 25%, 56.4%, 61.5%, 45%, and 52.9%, while severe intraventricular hemorrhage rates were 1.7%, 5.3%, 29.7%, 47.2%, 44.4%, and 28.6% in clusters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, respectively (p<0.001). Conclusion: Our cluster analysis in extremely preterm infants was able to characterize six distinct phenotypes. Future research should explore how better phenotypic characterization of neonates might improve care and prognosis.
- Severe Hyperbilirubinemia in Exchange Transfusion: Less Indication and Lower Mortality(2016) DURANTE, Patricia Prado; KREBS, Vera Lucia Jornada; CARVALHO, Werther Brunow de
- Do preschoolers born premature perform properly on lexical and verbal short-term memory abilities?(2020) VERRESCHI, Marianne Querido; CACERES-ASSENCO, Ana Manhani; KREBS, Vera Lucia Jornada; CARVALHO, Werther Brunow de; BEFI-LOPES, Debora MariaPurpose: To investigate lexical performance and verbal short-term memory ability in premature infants at preschool age and compare the results with their full-term peers. Methods: Forty preschool children aged between 4 and 5 years and 11 months participated on the study and were equally divided into two groups considering their gestational age: preterm and full-term. Groups did not differ on age, family income and maternal education. Participants were paired according to their chronological age and their socioeconomic status. Their performance was assessed using expressive vocabulary and verbal short-term memory tests. Inferential statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney and the Fisher exact test. Results: Group performance did not differ on vocabulary, but premature children showed an inferior performance on nonword repetition tasks. Conclusion: These data indicates that preschoolers born premature performed statistically lower than their peers born full-term on nonword repetition task. Thus, premature birth was associated to vocabulary development on typically developing range, but also to verbal short-term memory impairments.
- Neonatal SARS-CoV-2 infection(2020) CARVALHO, Werther Brunow de; GIBELLI, Maria Augusta Cicaroni; KREBS, Vera Lucia Jornada; CALIL, Valdenise Martins Laurindo Tuma; NICOLAU, Carla Marques; JOHNSTON, Cintia
- Expert recommendations for the care of newborns of mothers with COVID-19(2020) CARVALHO, Werther Brunow de; GIBELLI, Maria Augusta Bento Ciceroni; KREBS, Vera Lucia Jornada; CALIL, Valdenise Martins Laurindo Tuma; JOHNSTON, CintiaThis article presents expert recommendations for assisting newborn children of mothers with suspected or diagnosed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The consensus was developed by five experts with an average of 20 years of experience in neonatal intensive care working at a reference university hospital in Brazil for the care of pregnant women and newborns with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. Despite the lack of scientific evidence regarding the potential for viral transmission to their fetus in pregnant mothers diagnosed with or suspected of COVID-19, it is important to elaborate the lines of care by specialists from hospitals caring for suspected and confirmed COVID-19 cases to guide multidisciplinary teams and families diagnosed with the disease or involved in the care of pregnant women and newborns in this context. Multidisciplinary teams must be attentive to the signs and symptoms of COVID-19 so that decision-making is oriented and assertive for the management of the mother and newborn in both the hospital setting and at hospital discharge.
- Role of a Neonatal Intensive Care unit during the COVID-19 Pandemia: recommendations from the neonatology discipline(2020) CARVALHO, Werther Brunow de; GIBELLI, Maria Augusta Bento Cicaroni; KREBS, Vera Lucia Tornado; TRAGANTE, Carla Regina; PERONDI, Maria Beatriz MoliternoOn 11th March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 a pandemic. The Obstetrics and Neonatology disciplines needed to be revised to suit the institutional need to expand intensive care beds to care for confirmed or suspected patients with COVID-19 in the state of Sao Paulo, following the recommendations of the Institutional Crisis Committee. Three different actions were needed: the structuring of teams and advanced medical post to attend COVID-19-free patients and those with suspect or confirmed COVID-19; elaborating the protocols from the delivery room throughout hospitalization. Some special considerations about breastfeeding and rooming-in were needed. The third action was the drafting of a protocol to admit infants from other hospitals with confirmed COVID-19 as the unit never admitted outpatients before.
- Neonatal manifestations in COVID-19 patients at a Brazilian tertiary center COMMENT(2020) BEOZZO, Glenda Priscila Neves dos Santos; CARVALHO, Werther Brunow de; KREBS, Vera Lucia Jornada; GIBELLI, Maria Augusta Bento Cicaroni; ZACHARIAS, Romy Schmidt Brock; ROSSETTO, Larissa Elizabeth Schulz; FRANCISCO, Rossana Pulcinelli Vieira
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