Category: "Mark Schleiss, MD, FAAP"

By Mark R. Schleiss, MD, FAAP, University of Minnesota Medical School Congenital infection with cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is common, and usually not recognized in the newborn nursery. All pediatricians are familiar with the presentation of severely affected infants – hepatosplenomegaly, petechiae, microcephaly, hearing loss – but, in fact, most infants with cCMV are either asymptomatic or […]

By Mark R. Schleiss, MD, Division Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, U of M Medical School A new grant has enabled establishment of a research partnership between Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Medical Center (UMMC), aimed at evaluation of newborn infants who fail newborn hearing screening for possible […]