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[Transnational adoptions. Medical and ethical issues]
1Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital Universitario de Tarragona Joan XXIII, Tarragona. xallue@hjxxiii.scs.es
Anales Espanoles De Pediatria
|September 22, 2000
Abstract
Objective:
To report our experience in the problems of international adoptions and their characteristics and management.
Materials And Methods:
Review of patients treated in our pediatrics department and review of the literature.
Comment:
The adoption of children from other countries is increasing in Spain. The problems presented by these children include infectious diseases, and nutritional and psycho-emotional disorders. Furthermore, pediatricians should take ethical issues into account and discuss them with the adoptive parents.