Observation of an Ethiopian infant with Down's syndrome with severe malnutrition, and reflection on the effect that the social and health conditions in Ethiopia had on the causes leading to this extreme situation.
Observation of an Ethiopian infant with Down's syndrome with severe malnutrition, and reflection on the effect that the social and health conditions in Ethiopia had on the causes leading to this extreme situation.
Life expectancy is increasing considerably in the population with Down's Syndrome (DS), thanks to advances in health care and living conditions. As a result, older people with SD require specialized care. This article aims to give an updated view of ageing and end of life in people with DS, with three sections: 1. Definition of geriatric concepts, 2. Specific medical problems of ageing in SD, 3. End of life in SD. Finally, a set of guidelines for the detection of specific problems in the care of older patients with SD is proposed.
The establishment of affective ties between mother and child is a universal phenomenon in all cultures. However, this process can be disrupted by contextual factors of the mother and her newborn child. The arrival of a baby is generally a joyful event in all families. Nevertheless, this situation can change when the newborn baby is not regarded as normal. This can sometimes cause a breach in the affective ties within the family, mainly between the parents and their child. Situations of this type are intensified when parents refuse to accept their Down's syndrome baby from the very beginning. Nursing professionals prepare strategies help in the emotional bonding from the time of diagnosis, and in the period immediately after childbirth. In this respect, nurses have a crucial role as information providers for the family. More specifically, they give parents emotional support and tell them about the importance of skin to skin contact, as well as the advantages of breastfeeding. The emotional process that the family is going through must be respected, especially the parents since they are responsible for the integration of the baby into the family unit. The objective of this research was to establish a standard nursing intervention protocol that helps to establish affective ties and bonding between the Down's syndrome baby and the family.
This review and discussion of the current literature is based on the case of a young man with Down's syndrome (DS) and cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT).
Twenty-seven-year-old male who presented with headache, vomiting and left hemiparesis. After finding signs consistent with cerebral venous thrombosis on neuroimaging, anticoagulant treatment was started, and eventuated in a favorable clinical outcome.
DS patients are predisposed to the occurrence of embolic stroke secondary to congenital heart disease. However, the causes of CVT in DS are uncertain, but probably have a multifactorial origin. There are to date two published cases of CVT in patients with DS.
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