Intussusception in the Northern Territory: the incidence is low in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

abstract：AIM:To evaluate consumption of foods rich in dietary fibre and its relation to the prevalence of constipation in pre-school children. METHODS:In total, 368 children aged 3-5 years were randomly selected from kindergartens in Hong Kong. Constipation was confirmed by Rome-criteria. Children with normal bowel habits serv...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Lee WT,Ip KS,Chan JS,Lui NW,Young BW

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:According to the hyperfiltration hypothesis, a low nephron endowment will lead to hyperfiltration in the remaining glomeruli and is associated with systemic hypertension, proteinuria and glomerulosclerosis. Being born with one functioning kidney instead of two, for instance because of unilateral renal agenesis or m...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Schreuder MF,Langemeijer ME,Bökenkamp A,Delemarre-Van de Waal HA,Van Wijk JA

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile idiopathic arthritis results in significant pain and disability in both children and adults. Advances in treatment resulting in improved long-term outcomes have occurred; however, an emphasis on early and aggressive diagnosis and management hopes to improve outcomes further. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis rema...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Ostring GT,Singh-Grewal D

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers diagnostic frameworks in developmental-behavioural paediatrics. The purpose of a diagnostic assessment is reviewed, and the use of categorical diagnoses is explored. A multi-level process of diagnostic formulation is outlined, highlighting the importance of a comprehensive focus on presenting symp...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： O'Keeffe M,Macaulay C

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male neonate with partial monosomy 10q and partial trisomy 11q, due to paternal balanced translocation, and who had cerebellar and olfactory lobe hypoplasia, cardiovascular defects, duodenal atresia and imperforate anus, is presented. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on this combination of chro...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Maruyama K,Koizumi T,Ikeda H

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To quantify and then reduce the number of unnecessary chest X-rays (CXR) being performed on children presenting with asthma. METHODS:A retrospective review of case notes of all children, aged 1-15 years, who presented with asthma and had a CXR performed. The setting was two General Hospitals that see all ch...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Buckmaster A,Boon R

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The public health system in Australia currently faces unprecedented challenges managing an ageing population with a rising burden of illness. Health professionals employed in the area are under constant pressure to do more with less, leading to high levels of employee dissatisfaction. Physician satisfaction is a criti...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Dalton S

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Propranolol has recently emerged as an effective drug treatment for infantile haemangiomas. The side effect profile of the drug and the safety of administering propranolol in outpatient settings in this age group remain uncertain. We report our experience with 200 infants and children prescribed propranolo...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Phillips RJ,Penington AJ,Bekhor PS,Crock CM

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To audit the clinical features and outcomes for all patients referred to our centre with concerns regarding labial appearance. METHODS:Young females referred to a paediatric/adolescent gynaecology tertiary centre between 2000 and 2012 with concerns regarding their labial appearance were retrospectively identified....

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： McQuillan SK,Jayasinghe Y,Grover SR

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is ever-increasing pressure on hospital resources in general and emergency departments (ED) in particular. At the same time, there is increasing recognition that traditional inpatient ward-based care is not necessary for the majority of children presenting to the ED with acute illness, and that there are patient...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Bryant PA,Hopper SM

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To review the use of antifungal chemoprophylaxis to prevent neonatal invasive fungal infections (IFI) in very low birthweight infants (VLBW <1500 g). METHOD:Systematic review of randomised controlled trials. RESULTS:Nine trials were identified (2029 infants), with six comparing fluconazole with placebo/no treatme...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Blyth CC,Barzi F,Hale K,Isaacs D

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To understand feeding practices, nutrition management and postnatal growth monitoring of term small-for-gestational age (tSGA) infants in Southeast Asia. METHODS:Anonymous questionnaires to assess practices on feeding, nutrition management and post-natal growth monitoring of tSGA infants were distributed among hea...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Lee LY,Muhardi L,Cheah FC,Supapannachart S,Teller IC,Bindels J,van Der Beek EM,van Elburg RM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of a one-day paediatric life-support course on the knowledge of paediatric trainees. METHODS:A telephone survey was performed prior to and at set intervals following the course. Responses to individual questions before and after the course were analysed and an overall test score was calc...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Durojaiye L,O'Meara M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To identify opportunities to improve health-care delivery for urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children requiring hospital admission and to determine their characteristics. METHODS:We analysed all documentation of admissions of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children to a tertiary paediatric h...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Attwood L,Rodrigues S,Winsor J,Warren S,Biviano L,Gunasekera H

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children are particularly vulnerable to the health effects of climate change, the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. However, the worst effects on child health can be avoided, and well-designed climate policies can have important benefits for child health and equity. We call on child health professional...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Hosking J,Jones R,Percival T,Turner N,Ameratunga S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To describe the developmental progress of very premature babies at the age of 2 years, who were managed in an era where nasal prong continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) was the preferred method for the management of initial respiratory disease. METHODS:Two groups of very premature babies of <32 weeks gestat...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Stack JA,Jalaludin B

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is commonly being used for Australian children, however, at the same time, many doctors have little interest or understanding of the topic. Just as with mainstream treatments, CAM therapies have significant potential for adverse effects and drug inter...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： South M,Lim A

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary paediatric practices of Australian Aboriginal men and women, in more than 100 Aboriginal Language Groups, comprise a living discipline whose origins predate Western medicine by tens of millennia. The history of paediatrics acknowledges this surviving continuum of the world's oldest child-care practices. B...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Pearn J

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 14-year-old girl with Marfan syndrome who presented with severe postural headache. Dural ectasia was demonstrated radiologically. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure was immeasurable on formal measurement. Radionucleide cisternography failed to demonstrate a CSF leak. We consider that the underlying fibri...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Milledge JT,Ades LC,Cooper MG,Jaumees A,Onikul E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the beliefs, attitudes and behaviours of North Queensland adolescents about weight, weight loss and body shape, and to examine the influence of gender. METHODOLOGY:A questionnaire was used to survey 791 year 8 adolescents from private schools in north Queensland. RESULTS:Only 41% of the girls an...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Nowak M,Speare R,Crawford D

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aims of this study were: (i) to examine the annual treatment rate of children under 4 years from 1997 to 2006; (ii) to compare their treatment rate and attrition with that of children starting treatment at the modal age; (iii) to describe the clinical characteristics of children aged less than 4 years and thei...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Eysbouts Y,Poulton A,Salmelainen P

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory syncytial virus infection is the most common cause of hospital admissions in children under 1 year of age. Various cardiac dysrrhythmias have been reported to be associated with respiratory syncytial virus infection. We report a case where both tachyarrhythmia and bradyarrhythmia occurred within the same i...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Olesch CA,Bullock AM

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine associations between socio-economic, familial and perinatal factors with overweight/obesity in 6- and 12-year-old schoolchildren. METHODS:Eligible year-1 (1765/2238, mean age 6.7 years) and year-7 students (2353/3144, mean age, 12.7 years) from a random cluster sample of 55 Sydney schools were examined ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Gopinath B,Baur LA,Burlutsky G,Robaei D,Mitchell P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (GALT) deficiency in a full-term Chinese neonate, who presented with atypical biochemical features of hyperammonaemia in addition to the classical presenting features of jaundice and lethargy after feeding. Red cell GALT activity was virtually absent in the ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Cheung KL,Tang N,Hsiao KJ,Law LK,Wong W,Ng PC,Pang CP,Applegarth DA,Fok TF,Hjelm NM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In June 1990 a meeting of Paediatric Respiratory Physicians was held near Adelaide. The guidelines for assessing and treating asthma as prepared by the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand for the management of patients with asthma was considered. Although not explicitly stated, these guidelines were designed...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Henry R,Sly P,Godfrey S,Van Asperen P,Staugas R,Le Souef P,Smith G,Robertson I,Robertson C,Phelan P

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study compared the personality profiles of children with sighing dyspnoea with healthy children and tested the hypothesis of heightened anxiety scores in sighing dyspnoeic subjects using the Childhood Behavior Check List for Ages 4 to 18 (CBCL/4-18). The pulmonary function tests of these two groups of children...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Wong KS,Huang YS,Huang YH,Chiu CY

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A preliminary investigation was made into the effectiveness of two breastmilk fortifiers on the Australian market (FM-85 [Nestlé, Vevey, Switzerland] and Enfamil Human Milk Fortifier [EHMF; Mead Johnson, Evansville, IN, USA]). Infants < 1800 g and < 34 weeks gestation at birth, who were receiving breast milk, were ran...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Metcalf R,Dilena B,Gibson R,Marshall P,Simmer K

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the usefulness of a microelectronic tablet-dispenser for monitoring adherence to preventive therapy for tuberculosis infection in adolescents. METHODOLOGY:Twenty-one patients with positive Mantoux tests were treated with isoniazid (INH), dispensed in a microelectronic tablet-dispenser that recor...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Starr M,Sawyer S,Carlin J,Powell C,Newman R,Johnson P

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Meningitis may complicate neonatal sepsis, but there is scant evidence to inform the decision to perform a lumbar puncture (LP) and considerable variation in practice. We investigated whether inflammatory markers - C-reactive protein (CRP) and immature-to-total neutrophil ratio (ITR) - were predictive of meningitis...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Goldfinch CD,Korman T,Kotsanas D,Burgner DP,Tan K

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the incidence, clinical spectrum and outcome of very low birthweight (VLBW) infants with chronic lung disease (CLD), and evaluate associated factors. METHODOLOGY:Retrospective review of 265 VLBW infants managed in the NICU from January 1988 to December 1992. RESULTS:The overall neonatal surviv...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Yeo CL,Choo S,Ho LY

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00