Tropical infectious diseases during pregnancy.

Malaria during pregnancy harms fetal brain development. It causes cognitive and language delays in young children. Systemic inflammation and poor oxygen supply to the baby (placental dysfunction) are the main causes. Preventing malaria with medication protects the child's brain development. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] How Malaria Affects Pregnancy Impact on the Child’s Brain…

Osteoporosis protocol (Galindo-Zavala):

Childhood osteoporosis is defined, in clinical practice, by the presence of fragility fractures. The International Society of Clinical Densitometry (ISCD), in its 2019 consensus, establishes two alternative conditions for the diagnosis [1,2]: Important: a Z-score > −2 does not exclude bone fragility or predisposition to fractures, especially in patients with pathologies that...

Hypoxicoischemic encephalopathy and MRI

Resonancia Magnética (RM) en la Encefalopatía Hipoxicoisquémica (EHI) La resonancia magnética cerebral es el método de elección para valorar la localización, severidad y pronóstico del daño cerebral secundario a un evento de asfixia perinatal. Patrones Principales de Lesión Patrón de Ganglios Basales y Tálamo: Este patrón es típicamente asociado con asfixias agudas y profundas. Afecta …

Criteria for the diagnosis of cerebral palsy child.

Cerebral palsy can be defined as a disorder of movement and posture control, which appears early and is the result of an injury, malformation, or dysfunction of the central nervous system, and is not the result of a progressive or degenerative brain disease. The problem can therefore appear pre-, …