Trends in place of birth for preterm infants in New South Wales, 1992-2001.

abstract：AIM:To describe the prevalence and risk factors of recurrent otitis media (rOM) in an urban Australian population at 3 years of age. METHODS:Cross-sectional examination of prevalence and risk factors of rOM in 2280 participants from the Raine Study enrolled from public and private hospitals in Perth, Western Australia...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Brennan-Jones CG,Whitehouse AJ,Park J,Hegarty M,Jacques A,Eikelboom RH,Swanepoel de W,White JD,Jamieson SE

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We wanted to investigate serum levels of ghrelin and leptin - appetite-regulating hormones - and their correlation with the nutritional status of children with neurogenic bladder (NB) due to myelomeningocele (MMC) in comparison to healthy individuals. METHODS:This prospective analysis was conducted on 67 children ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Bagińska JO,Liszewska A,Wasilewska A,Korzeniecka-Kozerska A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this paper was to study the prevalence of a regular source of primary care for Victorian children attending one of four emergency departments (EDs) and to determine associated characteristics, including ED use. METHODS:Responses were collected via an electronic survey from parents attending EDs with the...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Turbitt E,Freed GL

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five children with multiple relapsing steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome were treated with continuous cyclosporin for periods ranging from 18 to 48 months. Renal biopsy showed mild mesangial proliferation in three of the children and minimal change in two. All children previously had been treated with cyclophosphami...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Webb KL,Sargent P,Burke JR

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria is one of the greatest killers of children in the world. Treatment is available, but there are problems with affordability, availability, accessibility and increasing drug resistance. A new regime, intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) shows promise. It involves giving a treatment course of antim...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Munday S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This manuscript describes two interesting patients who had exercise-induced symptoms that unmasked an alternative underlying diagnosis. The first is an 8-year-old boy who was treated for asthma all his life but really had exercise-induced stridor (labelled as wheeze) causing significant exercise limitation, which was ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Pandit CA,Batterby E,Van Asperen P,Cooper P,Selvadurai H,Fitzgerald DA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Donor selection for milk banks is essential to ensure the safety and nutritional quality of the donor milk, and to ensure that the prospective donor and her breastfeeding infant do not come to harm through donating. Australian Red Cross Lifeblood Milk went through a robust process to develop a set of criteria for t...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Clifford V,Sulfaro C,Lee J,Pink J,Hoad V

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study examined the prevalence and risk factors of fine motor delay in Australian pre-school children from low-income communities. METHODS:Children from the Early Start Baseline Study completed the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (3rd edn.). Age, sex, executive function and family characteristics were assessed a...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Strooband KFB,de Rosnay M,Okely AD

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old boy developed symptoms of rapidly progressive paraplegia, associated with bowel and urinary dysfunction, but without sensory loss. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination showed diffuse swelling of the lower spinal cord on T1-weighted images. Based on the clinical presentation and MRI findings, a dia...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Minami K,Tsuda Y,Maeda H,Yanagawa T,Izumi G,Yoshikawa N

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe the use of media as a sleep aid in adolescents and relate this to their sleep routines and feelings of tiredness. METHODS:A questionnaire about using media as a sleep aid, media presence in bedrooms, time to bed and time out of bed on average weekdays and average weekend days, and questions regarding l...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Eggermont S,Van den Bulck J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Adaptive functioning develops throughout early childhood, and its limitation is a reflection that the child has developmental or emotional problems or even mental retardation. Little is known about the adaptive functioning or developmental status of slum children. The present cross-sectional study was undertaken du...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Panigrahi A,Das SC,Sahoo P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although enormous effort has been focused over the past two decades on examining the potential adverse effects of exposure to environmental lead on human health, there has been a debate over the persistence and dynamic pattern of these effects. METHODOLOGY:Articles relevant to this issue which were publishe...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Tong S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the effectiveness of lignocaine and a vibrating device with cold pack (Buzzy) for pain management of intramuscular (IM) benzathine penicillin injections in the rheumatic fever (RF) population of Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB). METHODS:Four hundred and five RF patients receiving four wee...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Russell K,Nicholson R,Naidu R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the efficacy and tolerability of the ketogenic diet (KD) in refractory paediatric epilepsy. METHODS:Twenty-six consecutive children were treated with the classical KD from 1996 to 2001. The epilepsy syndromes included symptomatic generalized epilepsy (15), idiopathic generalized epilepsy (4), sympt...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Mackay MT,Bicknell-Royle J,Nation J,Humphrey M,Harvey AS

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the aetiology, symptoms and outcome of extreme sodium derangement in a paediatric inpatient population. METHODOLOGY:A retrospective study of children with extreme disturbance of their plasma sodium (> or = 165 mmol/L or < or = 115 mmol/L) admitted to a tertiary referral centre during a 72-month ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Dunn K,Butt W

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This article compares the severity of illness scoring systems clinical risk index for babies (CRIB)-II and score for neonatal acute physiology with perinatal extension (SNAPPE)-II for discriminatory ability and goodness of fit in the same cohort of babies of less than 32 weeks gestation and aims to provide validat...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Reid S,Bajuk B,Lui K,Sullivan EA,NSW and ACT Neonatal Intensive Care Units Audit Group, PSN.

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of an intravenous loading dose of aminophylline (6 mg/kg) on Doppler time-averaged mean velocity in the middle cerebral artery in ventilated preterm neonates. METHODOLOGY:Twenty infants were studied by colour/duplex Doppler technique prior to and at 5, 10, 3...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Govan JJ,Ohlsson A,Ryan ML,Myhr T,Fong K

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last 50 years in allergy could almost be considered the first 50 years. Over this time period, we have witnessed the emergence of allergy as a subspecialty, have seen and continue to observe a tremendous change in prevalence of allergic disease and have gained insight into the mechanisms that underlie allergic pre...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Campbell DE,Mehr S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year-old Caucasian male with history of abdominal pain, diarrhoea, fatigue, emesis and fever on the previous days presented with dehydratation, shock and acute mesenteric ischaemia. Final diagnosis of Addison's disease was made. ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Roldan-Martin MB,Rodriguez-Ogando A,Sanchez-Galindo AC,Parente-Hernandez A,Luengo-Herrero V,Sanchez-Sanchez C

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Molecular analysis of the Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) gene in two unrelated families, with a combined total of seven boys, affected by X-linked agammaglobulinaemia (XLA). METHODS:Protein electrophoresis and western blotting were used for the examination of Btk protein synthesis in blood leucocytes. Isolat...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Pienaar S,Eley B,Beatty DW,Henderson HE

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the prevalence of and assess risk factors associated with head lice infections (pediculosis) in children from government primary schools in Victoria, Australia. METHODS:Between May and October 2001, children were selected by clustered random sampling of schools and classes, then examined for he...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Counahan M,Andrews R,Büttner P,Byrnes G,Speare R

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between April 1989 and October 1991, 13 severely ill infants, median age 13 days (range 1-180 days), median weight 3.5 kg (range 2.5-4.8 kg), received continuous venovenous haemofiltration (CVVH) for a median duration of 39 h (range 5-234 h). Filtration was performed through a double lumen catheter inserted into a cen...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Reeves JH,Butt WB,Sathe AS

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:As growing concerns exist regarding phthalate exposure, which could be teratogenic, carcinogenic or induce reproductive toxicity, we aimed to review the evidence of the risks due to the use of medical devices containing di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate in hospitalized neonates. METHODS:We reviewed the literature, search...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Fischer CJ,Bickle Graz M,Muehlethaler V,Palmero D,Tolsa JF

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the clinical outcome of patients with moderate to severe cellulitis managed at a paediatric day treatment centre (DTC). METHODS:Prospective observational study of all patients (3 months to 18 years) with a presumed diagnosis of moderate to severe cellulitis made in a university-affiliated paediatric emer...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Gouin S,Chevalier I,Gauthier M,Lamarre V

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in the context of total infant mortality for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal infants. Deaths for infants born in Western Australia from 1980 to 1988 inclusive were ascertained from a total population data base. Infant mortality rates and rates ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Alessandri LM,Read AW,Stanley FJ,Burton PR,Dawes VP

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the effect of trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole treatment on the natural population of lactic acid bacteria in the intestinal tract and to determine if any of the strains developed resistance to antibiotics. METHODS:Lactic acid bacteria were isolated from stool samples of 100 children. The isolates were ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Dicks LM,Fraser T,ten Doeschate K,van Reenen CA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study aims to describe the phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of 45 Australian patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), to assess risk factors for intellectual disability, to compare patients with TSC1 and TSC2 mutations and to assess adherence to surveillance recommendations. METHODS:Phenotypic ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Chopra M,Lawson JA,Wilson M,Kennedy SE,Taylor P,Buckley MF,Wargon O,Parasivam G,Camphausen C,Yates D,Mowat D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is a hereditary disorder of elastic tissue. The characteristic skin changes are asymptomatic yellow papules around the neck and in body folds giving the skin a characteristic cobblestone appearance. The eyes, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems are also commonly involved. In this...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Sakata S,Su JC,Robertson S,Yin M,Chow C

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss a recently resettled African refugee child with acute schistosomiasis, who presented with fever, hepatosplenomegaly and marked eosinophilia. We outline the differential diagnoses of eosinophilia in the recently resettled refugee and returned traveller and outline the epidemiology and clinical spectrum of sc...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Mohd Abd Rahman M,Bryant P,Guppy D,Buttery J,Burgner D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine health-care-seeking behaviour for childhood illnesses in a resource-poor setting. METHOD:Cross-sectional survey was conducted in the children emergency room in a Nigerian tertiary hospital. Socio-demographic data and details of the place and type of care given to ill children before presentation in th...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Tinuade O,Iyabo RA,Durotoye O

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00