Objective: Recent guidelines made recommendations for the management of gastroesophageal reflux in patients with esophageal atresia (EA). However, the timing for some diagnostic tests remained somehow unclear. This investigation studied the tests for gastroesophageal reflux in children aged one year old and children aged two or three.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: In patients with hemolytic disorders (HD) splenectomy is recommended between 6-12 years. A higher risk of biliary complications (BC) has been described in those with associated Gilbert's disease (GD), but the ideal surgical age has not been stablished yet. Our aim is to quantify the risk of BC in patients with HD and GD to assess the benefit of early splenectomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Pediatric subglottic pathology still represents a challenge when it comes to choosing the right treatment. We present the management of patients followed in our center for this reason during the last 5 years.
Material And Methods: Retrospective study of patients followed by glotosubglottic pathology (stenosis, cysts or granulomas) between 2011 and 2016 in a third level hospital.
Objective: To evaluate the real problems of insomnia, analysing its prevalence and its characteristic presentation, within the clinics using an appointment system at a Primary Care Centre.
Design: Observation study of a crossover type, by means of a personal interview.
Setting: Primary Care context.
Objective: To discover the general and specific levels of satisfaction of our Primary Care centre (PCC) users, such as their satisfaction with the new Primary Care structures; to determine the relationship between satisfaction and sociodemographic factors; and to study the possible influence of certain user attitudes on satisfaction.
Design: Descriptive crossover study by means of a door-to-door survey.
Setting: A basic care unit of the Primary Care team of Number 3 health zone of area 19, Alcoy.
Objective: Three clinical cases of Aneurysm in the abdominal Aorta are presented, in order to make a clinical review of aneurysms in the abdominal Aorta (AAA) and underline the importance of their early diagnosis in Primary Care, given the risk factors.
Design: A retrospective, descriptive analysis of three cases of AAA from 1991. SITE.