Neonatal thermography.
Anterior and posterior view thermograms were recorded in 37 neonates. Studies were performed under a radiant heater servocontrolled to an abdominal skin temperature of 36.0 C. Heart, liver, and kidneys, being highly vascular structures, were detected as "warm" areas on the body surface. A longitudinal study of an infant with a patent ductus arteriosus and congestive heart failure deomnstrated a generally cooler chest following a decrease in pulmonary artery blood flow accomplished by ductal ligation. Another infant demonstrated a unilateral warm area posteriorly over the left flank. At autopsy the right kidney and its vasculature internal organs. Thermography may prove to be a simple noninvasive tool for routine screening in the neonate of highly vascular internal organs. Thermographic detection of renal malformation may offer considerable potential.
D002001:Adipose Tissue, Brown / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D013817:Thermography