A novel role for milrinone in neonatal acute limb ischaemia: successful conservative treatment of thrombotic arterial occlusion without thrombolysis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Acute neonatal limb ischaemia (NLI) is most frequently an iatrogenic complication, however, may also occur in utero due to thromboembolism. There is no widely accepted protocol for treatment of NLI and limited evidence to guide management. Thrombolysis and surgical management have been attempted, though both are associated with significant morbidities. Milrinone is a phosphodiesterase-3 inhibitor used for its vasodilatory effects on the systemic and pulmonary vasculature. There is also emerging evidence for benefit of milrinone in ameliorating ischaemia-reperfusion injury. The authors present a case report of a term infant with spontaneous perinatal acute limb ischaemia secondary to near-completely occlusive thrombosis of the right subclavian artery. The infant was successfully managed conservatively with milrinone without requirement for thrombolysis or surgical intervention. Milrinone represents a novel treatment option for neonates with acute limb ischaemia and consideration of a trial of milrinone prior to higher risk treatment options is warranted in this patient group.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".