[Home parenteral nutrition in Spain 2011 and 2012; a report of the home and ambulatory artificial nutrition group NADYA].

Objective: To report the data of the Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN) registry of the NADYA-SENPE working group for the years 2011 and 2012.

Methodology: We compiled the data from the on-line registry introduced by reviewers of NADYA group responsible for monitoring of NPD introduced by since January 1, 2011 to december 31, 2012. Included fields were: age, sex, diagnosis and reason for HPN, access path, complications, beginning and end dates, complementary oral or enteral nutrition, activity level, autonomy degree, product and fungible material supply, withdrawal reason and intestinal transplant indication.

A type primary amyloidosis of the urinary bladder: Clinical case and bibliographic review.

Objective: Amyloidosis is a disease characterised by deposition of eosinophilic hyaline material in different tissues. Urinary bladder involvement is uncommon with less than 200 cases of the primary form published in the literature. We present a new case of primary AA type amyloidosis of the urinary bladder (typical of secondary forms).

Developmental anterior dislocation of the radial head resulting from a congenital solitary osteochondroma of the proximal ulna in an infant.

A 4-month-old female infant was brought to our office by her parents, who had noticed a lump on the child's right elbow. Examination revealed a hard, painless lump in the antero-external region that was not reducible in flexion-extension or in pronation-supination. Neither palpation nor passive motion produced pain.

[Radiation exposure in children undergoing diagnostic imaging: a study of Pamplona County].

Objective: To describe a method of calculating and registering the dose of radiation used in Pamplona County in pediatric examinations, and to show the results obtained one year after its implementation.

Material And Methods: The effective dose was calculated by a program that uses the pediatric files of the United Kingdom's National Radiation Protection Board. This program, incorporated into the Computerized Clinical History, enables an Individual Dosimetric History to be calculated for the entire pediatric population.

Intrahepatic mucinous biliary cystadenoma.

Mucinous biliary cystadenoma (MBC) is a very rare cystic tumour of the liver usually occurring in middleaged women. This condition is difficult to diagnose before surgery; differential diagnosis with hydatid disease of the liver has to be done and is difficult to distinguish from mucinous biliary cystadenocarcinoma. We report two diagnosed and treated cases of intrahepatic MBC.

[Spirometry in primary care in Navarre, Spain].

Objective: To analyze the use and quality of spirometry in primary care settings in Navarre, Spain.

Patients And Methods: A questionnaire was completed simultaneously by professionals responsible for spirometry in all of the primary health care centers in Navarre. Data were collected on availability, model of spirometer, frequency of use, calibration, methods, personnel responsible for testing, and training of personnel.

Comparative analysis of the bronchodilator response measured by impulse oscillometry (IOS), spirometry and body plethysmography in asthmatic children.

Background: Asthma is common among young children. The assessment of respiratory resistance by the impulse oscillometry system (IOS), based on the superimposition of respiratory flow by short-time impulses, requires no patient active collaboration.

Aim: We evaluated the baseline repeatability and bronchodilator response of IOS indices in preschool children, their correlation with spirometry and whole body plethysmography, and differences between atopic and nonatopic children.

[Values of GERMCIDE neuropsychological protocol in a sample of normal subjects].

Introduction: The diagnosis of patients with cognitive deterioration or dementia requires a global approach in which the neuropsychological examination is a key piece. As part of the GERMCIDE study (Group for the Study and Multicenter Registry of Incident Cases of Dementia in Spain), a protocol was designed that included an assessment of the different cognitive functions that are most frequently altered in dementias (memory, orientation, speech, praxis, abstraction capacity and executive function).

Methods: In order to obtain data in normal subjects, this neuropsychological protocol was applied to a group of persons over 50 years without cognitive deterioration or dementia.

[Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: clinical features and outcome].

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension in children is rare. We analyzed clinical presentation and outcome in eight patients (six girls and two boys) diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension. The mean age was 11.

[Diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome: the situation in Navarra (Spain)].

Objective: To assess the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) in Navarra (Spain) and to know the characteristics of patients treated with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (n-CPAP) in our community.

Method: All patients receiving nasal n-CPAP from the public health service of Navarra in July 2000 were enrolled. A nurse visited each patient and filled in a form with epidemiological data, and patient and clinical characteristics.

[Treatment perspectives: immunotherapy with latex].

Latex allergy currently constitutes a serious problem because of the severity of its symptoms and the at-risk groups it affects. Since complete avoidance of this substance is practically impossible, in the last few years intense efforts have been made to standardize a latex extract with the aim not only of improving clinical diagnosis but also of being able to offer other therapeutic alternatives, such as specific immunotherapy.Since 1998, reports of immunotherapy with oral (three patients) subcutaneous (one patient) and sublingual latex desensitization (one patient) have been published.

[Epidemic outbreak of tuberculosis].

Objective: To describe how collaboration between epidemiological surveillance and primary and specialist health care centres enabled rapid intervention during an outbreak of tuberculosis in a nursery school.

Material And Methods: A child minder was diagnosed with tuberculosis. The persons exposed were identified.

Incidence of type I diabetes mellitus in Navarre, Spain (1975-91).

The aim of this study was to ascertain the incidence of Type 1 diabetes mellitus in Navarre, an autonomous community in northern Spain. Subjects were patients who presented with diabetes between 1975 and 1991, age range 0-16 years, resident in Navarre at the onset of symptoms. Endocrinologists in outpatient centres and hospitals (both public and private) in Navarre were the primary source of data, while secondary sources were: independent general practitioners, health centre paediatricians and the Child-Youth Diabetics Parents' Association of Navarre.