This book discusses key aspects of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), presenting the latest research on the biology and treatment of the disease and related issues.
The new, fully updated edition of this successful book, brings together the combined experience of a leading dedicated unit over 25 years in delivering expert medical and surgical care to children with DSD (Disorders|Differences of Sex Development) in a holistic environment.
This book combines an exceptional wealth of precise, exquisite schematic drawings and high-quality images with clear explanatory text in order to provide readers with a crisp and clear understanding of all aspects of congenital heart disease, from diagnosis to treatment and from the fetus to the adult.
Acute management of children with liver disease and liver transplantation has rapidly evolved over the last two decades due to worldwide availability of complex liver surgery and liver transplantation.
This book covers the epidemiology, mechanism, risk, various types of injuries, and practical approaches to treating children who have sustained blunt abdominal trauma.
This book is aimed to emphasize the rationale and importance of prevention and management of viral hepatitis in children, providing cutting edge knowledge.
This book discusses the management of serious finger damage, which can have lifelong consequences for patients without timely and effective replantation treatment to restore the function of the hand.
This volume is an excellent guide that comprehensively illustrates hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, especially preeclampsia, in both the basic and clinical aspects.
This well-illustrated book describes a practical approach to the primary management of patients who have multiple injuries, or polytrauma, with the aim of providing medical and paramedical personnel with the knowledge required in order to achieve optimal clinical outcomes.
This book introduces readers to all clinical aspects of congenital anomalies of the hand and upper limb, and offers extensive information on their surgical management, including plastic surgery, pediatric surgery, hand surgery, orthopedic surgery, and general surgery.
This book describes the most popular topics concerning adult congenital heart disease (ACHD), especially focusing on indications and re-intervention procedures for some major ACHDs.
This book describes the pathogenesis and treatment of several representative hematological disorders in children, with a special focus on genetic and molecular aspects.
This book provides a wealth of insights, advances and new perspectives on cell therapy for different types of neonatal ischemic disease, such as Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), Periventricular Leukomalacia (PVL) and neonatal infarction.
En el marco de la atención nutricional integral hospitalaria, la terapéutica nutricional juega un papel fundamental en los resultados clínicos de pacientes en unidades de cuidados intensivos neonatales.
El estado epiléptico es un motivo de consulta frecuente en el servicio de urgencias debido al riesgo de muerte y las graves complicaciones que implica.
La medicina es un área del saber que mejora y cambia cada día por diferentes razones: los nuevos descubrimientos en biología molecular y en genética, los grandes avances en informática, tecnología y comunicaciones, el desarrollo de nuevos medicamentos -cada vez más eficaces y con menos efectos colaterales-, el hallazgo de nuevas vacunas, la presentación de nuevas guías de práctica clínica basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible, el estudio a profundidad de las enfermedades que afectan el sistema inmunológico y metabólico; todo lo anterior ha conducido a diagnósticos más precisos y tratamientos más eficaces.
Modelo biopsicosocial para la reducción de la morbilidad y mortalidad materna y perinatal es una metodología construida mediante investigación entre 1987 y 1990 la cual fue validada en cuatro países de América Latina entre 1991 y 1992.
El desarrollo constante de la neonatologia y su naturaleza multidisciplinar exige la conformacion de equipos que den respuesta a la preocupacion inicial de la supervivencia del recien nacido y, posteriormente, a la intervencion de sus posibles secuelas, especialmente de aquellos ninos y ninas que tienen una permanencia prolongada en la unidad neonatal.
Los capítulos de este libro abordan el amplio tema de la vida humana desde su etapa prenatal hasta la adolescencia, a fin de difundir y actualizar los conocimientos al respecto, promoviendo la formación médica de alta calidad.
Most neonates who now survive intensive care would have died 50 years ago, and "e;nature"e; would have decided the outcomes, making ethical discussions about initiating or withholding resuscitation irrelevant.
Critical to the accurate diagnosis of human illness is the need to distinguish clinical features that fall within the normal range from those that do not.
This book is intended to be an aid to all who are concerned with assessing vision and handling day-to-day problems during the growth of infants and children.
The use of cultured cells in the clinical diagnosis of hereditary metabolic dis- ease is a rapidly developing subject to which many different disciplines have brought their expertise and knowledge.
Surprisingly, the beginning of a modern approach This collection of articles and commentaries is an to the problems of birth defects is relatively recent integration of information from many disciplines, and dates from Gregg's classical report in 1941 that and presents a comprehensive survey of both recent mothers who contracted rubella during the first tri- and previously reported work related to the major mester of pregnancy gave birth to infants with severe aspects of birth defects.
