Publications by authors named "David Ruano Dominguez"
Article Synopsis
- The SCAN tool was developed to identify malnutrition risk in children with cancer but initially showed low effectiveness at diagnosing malnutrition during treatment.
- The study involved measuring various health indicators in 49 children diagnosed with cancer to validate the SCAN tool for predicting nutritional needs, toxicities, and treatment outcomes.
- While SCAN had improved effectiveness when applied periodically during treatment, the overall results indicated it couldn't reliably predict risk factors like relapse or survival rates.
Article Synopsis
- There is currently no standardized method for assessing nutrition in pediatric oncology patients, but the SCAN tool has been identified as a potentially effective screening option.
- This study evaluated the SCAN tool's validity and reliability in detecting malnutrition among newly diagnosed cancer patients at a pediatric hospital in Spain, including various assessments like blood markers and questionnaires.
- Results showed that 45% of patients were at risk of malnutrition, and while the SCAN tool is user-friendly, it may overlook some cases because it does not include measurements like weight and height, prompting the need for further research.
Background: We investigated the clinical characteristics of a pediatric population with hemato-oncological disease and intracranial hypertension, analyze the therapeutic response and outcome, and compare its characteristics with respect to a control group with idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed patients with hemato-oncological disease and secondary intracranial hypertension in our center during the past five years. We compared these individuals with a historical cohort with idiopathic intracranial hypertension from our institution (control group).