An important point of arrival for Lombard healthcare which implements prevention starting from newborns.
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At the conference “Newborn Screening – Early diagnosis for your baby’s health” organized from the ASST Fatebenefratelli Saccoheld at the Great Hall of the children’s hospital in Milan Buzzione was presented novelty important.
It’s about the early diagnosis of a hereditary metabolic disease invasive which is the SMA, muscle atrophy spinal. Since September 15 this year it has been insert in newborn screening.
Bertolaso, the regional councilor for Welfare, present at conferencewanted to underline the aspect of the importance of early diagnosis. It will allow, in this case, to be able to help the child to improve his life quality than it should support if they diagnosed the disease from the onset of first symptoms.
Together to the Welfare councilorthe conference saw the participation of Maria Grazia ColomboExtraordinary Commissioner ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco e Gian Vincenzo Zuccottidirector of the Buzzi maternal and child department and principal of Medical School of the State University of Milan.
SMA, degenerative disease
Furthermore, Cristina Ceredadirector of the Neonatal Screening Laboratory e Jacopo Casiraghi, representative of the ‘SMA Families’ Association. It’s about a invasive disease and serious degenerative, but if yes identical in time, it may be cleanse.
Lo screening consists of taking two drops of blood from the heel of the newborn baby. The exam must be done by 48-72 ore from birth and directly to hospital. It’s a intervention very important because it points to prevention and no longer just at treatment.
In this way i medici they can implement all the necessary care so that the child can improve right away quality of his life. The councilor he was keen to underline the importance of prevention in medicine.
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This test is added to the screening already mandatory for all newborns. This allows you to individuate until 50 rare diseases that could result harmful for the life of the child, and which “would compromise the life of newborn babies and they would destroy the parents’ lives.”
With these exams we try to individuate those rare diseases that are of genetic originoften hereditary. Diagnose them at birth allows doctors to be able to intervene in a short time. Through specific therapies and ad hoc diets can avoid serious damage to the child’s body.
One million euros allocated
To also add the test for SMAthe Lombardy Region has allocated a fund of 1 million euros. The experts they assure, however, the parents who, the positive test for this disease, it’s just a signal to learn more with others test and exams.
Il Buzzi laboratoryASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco of Milan, is currently the point of reference at a regional level for the screening neonatale and for all the tests that confirm the diagnosis.
2023-10-04 19:27:11
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