Publications by authors named "Santiago Lapena"
Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze the efficacy of massage therapy and kinesitherapy on the anthropometric development of hospitalized preterm infants applied by parents.
Design And Methods: A prospective quasi-experimental study was designed. Hospitalized preterm infants received a daily 15-minute session of massage therapy and kinesitherapy.
Objective: The aim of this study was to perform a systematic review to identify, evaluate and summarise studies on the administration of therapeutic massage to preterm neonates during their stay in the NICU, and to assess their methodological quality.
Design: systematic review following PRISMA statements guidelines.
Data Sources: A comprehensive search was performed including relevant articles between January 2004 and December 2013, using the following electronic databases: Medline, PEDro, Web of Science and Scopus.
Cytokines are actively secreted by the respiratory mucosa of preterm children and participate in the pathogenesis of wheezing. This study aimed to identify the factors that could potentially influence respiratory secretion of cytokines in these children. A nasopharyngeal aspirate (NPA) was collected from 77 preterm children 1 yr after birth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To analyse the influence of climatic factors on the number of hospitalised infants with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) per week.
Methods: A retrospective observational case-control study was designed enrolling infants under 2 years of age, admitted to hospital between October 1995 and June 2000 with lower respiratory tract infection due to RSV. Climatic and seasonal data were included.