Publications by authors named "Laura Escobar-Fernandez"
Article Synopsis
- The EPICO-SEHOP platform in Spain collects COVID-19 data specifically from children, comparing those with cancer or recent stem cell transplants to those without underlying health issues.
- Findings show that children with cancer or who have undergone stem cell transplants generally experience milder COVID-19 symptoms (7.1%) compared to those without comorbidities (14.7%), unless they had a recent transplant (less than 300 days), where 35.7% faced severe illness.
- The shared data aims to inform treatment and isolation strategies, emphasizing the role of collaborative registries in addressing health crises during the pandemic.
infection is a severe complication of hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) recipients that can remain unnoticed without a high clinical suspicion. We present the case of a 6-year-old patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and HSCT recipient who was admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) on post-transplantation day +39 with fever, hypotension, severe respiratory distress and appearance of a lumbar subcutaneous node. She developed severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and underwent endotracheal intubation and early mechanical ventilation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep (CSWS) is an EEG pattern that appears during childhood, and is often associated with cognitive impairment. It can appear in the course of epileptic syndromes, as well as in benign epilepsy. The aim of this study is to analyse epidemiological and clinical characteristic of patients with CSWS, in order to describe possible predictive factors in their outcome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Potentially painful invasive procedures are often performed for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes in hospitalised paediatric patients. Approaches, such as virtual reality (VR), should be sought in order to minimise pain and anxiety during these procedures.
Materials And Methods: Hospitalised patients between 4 and 15-years-old requiring an invasive procedure were included.