Publications by authors named "Elisenda Busquets"
Article Synopsis
- Some people are trying to figure out if waiting to cut the umbilical cord affects how much useful blood can be collected for banking.
- The study looked at data from hospitals in Spain where babies were born normally and compared how much blood was collected based on waiting 30 seconds, 60 seconds, or more than 120 seconds before clamping the cord.
- They found that while waiting longer means you get less blood overall, the important parts of the blood still remained good, so all the waiting times still work for storing the blood for later use.
Background: Preterm infants born earlier than 32 weeks of gestational age (GA) often need red blood cell (RBC) transfusions, which have been associated with an increased incidence of complications of prematurity, due to changes in tissue oxygenation. Transfusion of umbilical cord blood (UCB) could be beneficial for this group. The aims of this study were: (i) to determine the RBC transfusion needs in infants <32 weeks in Hospital Clinic of Barcelona; (ii) to identify the target GA group that would benefit most from UCB transfusion; and (iii) to assess the current availability of UCB as a potential source of RBC transfusion for these premature infants in our tertiary referral blood bank.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBACKGROUND Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a genetic disorder characterized by initial muscular hypotonia and feeding difficulties, and later an insatiable appetite, hyperphagia and obesity along with mild to moderate intellectual impairment. Affected individuals' food-seeking behavior and suspected delayed gastric emptying can lead to gastric dilatation with subsequent necrosis and perforation. CASE REPORT We present the case of a 5-year-old boy diagnosed with Prader-Willi syndrome at neonatal age due to muscular hypotonia, who started growth hormone therapy at 20 months.
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