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.
This book presents lung ultrasound as an accurate, reliable, low-cost and simple imaging technique, which poses no risk of radiation damage, making bedside use both feasible and convenient in neonatal wards.
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.
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.
The past fifteen years have seen a resurgence of interest in the psychology of female development, impelled by factors both intrinsic and external to psychoanalysis.
The rapid growth of immunology has greatly increased our understanding of disease; this growth has also generated a subject which at times appears separated from some of the basic medical sciences.
The study of inherited metabolic disease became a subject of more than academic interest in 1953 when Bickel, Gerrard and Hickmans dis- covered that the totally disabling consequences of phenylketonuria could be prevented if treatment was instituted in the first months of life.
The maltreatment of children is an issue that has always been with us and civilized societies provide a range of services both social and medical to care for the children and families afflicted.
Cancer is an important cause of death within the first 15 played an important role in assembling valuable data concerning some of the less common neoplasms.
Molecular and Cell Biology of Muscular Dystrophy gives a series of accounts of various aspects of the remarkable breakthrough which has been achieved in our understanding of the Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophies and of the consequences and ramifications of this breakthrough.
The concept of the foeto-placental unit as an integrated endocrine organ has been defined recently by many in vivo studies at the 17th- 20th week of gestation.
Parents of children born with mental or physical handicaps, tend to face the physician with questions about the origin of the abnormality concerned and the chance of having another child with the same condition.
