Paternity testing in our department for last 11 years

Infantile spinal atrophy: Our experience in the last 25 years

[Infantile spinal atrophy: our experience in the last 25 years].

OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in our study population and genetic distribution and epidemiological and clinical characteristics and to analyze the level of care and development. MATERIAL AND METHOD Retrospective descriptive study of patients treated in our hospital in the past 25 years (from 1987 to early 2013), with a clinical and neurophysiological d...

Paternity Testing

Paternity testing can be done by older methods including ABO blood group typing, analysis of various other proteins and enzymes, or using human leukocyte antigen (HLA). However, DNA testing became the only formal and exact method for the paternity testing now. For DNA testing of paternity determination, the DNA collection using an easily obtained cheek swab saliva sample. Fast, proprietary and ...

Central venous catheters for chemotherapy of solid tumors--our results in the last 5 years.

Central venous catheters provide an easy access for intravenous medications. Having a central line in place will relieve a child from the discomfort and danger of multiple regular intravenous lines for chemotherapy. The use of indwelling central venous catheters has become commonplace in the management of children undergoing oncological treatment. There are two types of central lines commonly u...

Surgical lung biopsy for diffuse lung disease. Our experience in the last 15 years.

INTRODUCTION Surgical lung biopsy is a technique that presents a morbi-mortality rate of considerable importance. We analyze our experience with surgical lung biopsies for the diagnosis of diffuse lung disease and the effect produced on the indications for surgical biopsy in these pathologies after the publication of the consensus of the ATS (American Thoracic Society) and ERS (European Respira...