A decade of growth hormone treatment in girls with Turner syndrome in the UK. UK KIGS Executive Group.

abstract：AIMS:To pilot a novel approach to providing pharmaceutical care to paediatric inpatients using structured referral and assessment tools. Using standardised referral criteria to ensure patients are assessed by appropriately skilled pharmacists. METHOD:Three wards of varying acuity and specialism were selected in a tert...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mott A,Kafka S,Sutherland A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old boy with Cockayne's syndrome is described. In addition to the recognised clinical features, he presented with severe fixed airways obstruction, and investigations confirmed clinical and physiological emphysema. In a disorder associated with many of the features of aging, it is probably that the presence o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cunningham M,Godfrey S,Moffat WM

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA was estimated in the lungs of 80 fetuses and newborn infants varying in gestation from 14 weeks to term. In fetuses of appropriate weight for gestational age total lung DNA increased at a constant rate from about 35 mg at 17 weeks' gestation to 480 mg at term. The lungs of immature fetuses were heavier and c...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wigglesworth JS,Desai R

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the evidence for and challenges to the validity of Sheffield Peer Review Assessment Tool (SPRAT) with paediatric Specialist Registrars (SpRs) across the UK as part of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health workplace based assessment programme. DESIGN:Quality assurance analysis, including gen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Archer J,McGraw M,Davies H

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a meningococcal (group A) epidemic, 47 Nigerian children with acute meningococcaemia without meningitis were studied. Their mortality rate was 43% compared with 8% during the whole epidemic. Those presenting with coma and shock had a mortality of 93%, but without shock or coma mortality was only 6%. Coma or sho...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lewis LS

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-seven cases of prune belly syndrome in children born between 1948 and 1977 are described. They have been classified into three groups according to the state of the urinary tract in the neonatal period. The results achieved in these cases form the basis of our present management. In group I, the most severely aff...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Woodhouse CR,Ransley PG,Innes-Williams D

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty four very low birthweight babies (considered high risk for developing necrotising enterocolitis) were given vancomycin orally for 48 hours before introduction of oral feeds; one developed necrotising enterocolitis. One hundred and twenty very low birthweight babies (not considered such high risk) were fed witho...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ng PC,Dear PR,Thomas DF

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By means of a simple questionnaire and measurements of height, weight, and peak expiratory flow rates 3061 children from city and rural populations were studied. Children with asthma or other respiratory diseases had lower peak expiratory flow rates, and younger children living in rural areas had higher rates. In 2828...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Carson JW,Hoey H,Taylor MR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of brain abnormalities determined by magnetic resonance in 30 consecutive children presenting with intractable complex partial seizures is reported. Images were optimised to visualise the hippocampus and cortical grey matter. Abnormalities of the hippocampus or temporal lobe were seen in all 19 children ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cross JH,Jackson GD,Neville BG,Connelly A,Kirkham FJ,Boyd SG,Pitt MC,Gadian DG

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria, as a key disease of poverty, was singled out for special attention in the Millennium Project of 2000. Recent data suggest that malaria incidence and mortality are now declining all over the world. While these figures are cause for celebration, they must be interpreted carefully and with caution, particularly ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Owens S

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyogenic meningitis occurred in 6 infants in the course of chronic gastroenteritis, in 5 of whom a normal CSF had been recorded earlier in the illness. Clinical signs of meningitis were often absent. The problems of diagnosis and management and of possible predisposition to pneumococcal meningitis in children sufferin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wyatt GP,Marcus JC

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with chronic diarrhoea since birth responded to the prostaglandin synthetase inhibitors aspirin and indomethacin. During a period without treatment, raised levels of prostaglandins F2alpha and E2 were observed. No source for these raised prostaglandins was shown, and it is suggested that she may have an inborn...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dodge JA,Hamdi I,Walker S

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical response to sodium cromoglycate treatment was compared with its concentration in serum. Twenty five children with asthma entered a 10 week trial of two baseline weeks followed by eight weeks of treatment by the inhalation of 20 mg of sodium cromoglycate spincaps four times a day. Individual clinical respo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Yahav Y,Dany S,Katznelson D,Farfel Z

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the associations between albuminuria, metabolic control, glomerular filtration, blood pressure, and platelet function in children with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. The geometric mean (95% tolerance levels) albumin excretion (expressed as the geometric mean albumin to creatinine ratio on two ove...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gibb DM,Dunger D,Levin M,Shah V,Smith C,Barratt TM

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the prevalence of microcephaly in infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in eight private hospitals in south-eastern and midwestern Brazil, from 2011 to 2015. DESIGN:Observational, cross-sectional study in a cohort of neonates. SETTING:Eight private NICUs situated in the c...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Magalhães-Barbosa MC,Prata-Barbosa A,Robaina JR,Raymundo CE,Lima-Setta F,Antonio José Ledo Alves da Cunha

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent epidemic of childhood obesity(1) has raised concern because of the possible clinical and public health consequences.(2,)(3) However, there remains a widespread perception among health professionals that childhood obesity is a largely cosmetic problem, with minor clinical effects. No systematic review has ye...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reilly JJ,Methven E,McDowell ZC,Hacking B,Alexander D,Stewart L,Kelnar CJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Studies suggest that increased breastfeeding rates can provide substantial financial savings, but the scale of such savings in the UK is not known. OBJECTIVE:To calculate potential cost savings attributable to increases in breastfeeding rates from the National Health Service perspective. DESIGN AND SETTINGS...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pokhrel S,Quigley MA,Fox-Rushby J,McCormick F,Williams A,Trueman P,Dodds R,Renfrew MJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of 1 alpha-OH-D3 to hypocalcaemic neonates (mean +/- SD, serum calcium 1.50 +/- 0.13 mmol/l) significantly increased serum calcium in all 24 infants within 48 hours after starting therapy (mean +/- SD 1.83 +/- 0.23 mmol/1). The time required to correct hypocalcaemia was significantly shorter (2.04 +/- 0...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Barak Y,Milbauer B,Weisman Y,Edelstein S,Spirer Z

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) offers a simple outpatient technique for specimen collection in child tuberculosis suspects with peripheral lymphadenopathy. To perform FNAB with mycobacterial culture on an outpatient basis requires use of a sterile transport medium to facilitate bedside inoculation, maintain orga...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wright CA,Bamford C,Prince Y,Vermaak A,Hoek KG,Marais BJ,Warren RM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:UK screening for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is based on dried blood spot Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH). Scintigraphy may identify CH subtypes classified as dysplasia, gland in situ (GIS) and ectopia, but is not performed in all centres. We retrospectively investigated the role of scintigraphy to id...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Worth C,Hird B,Tetlow L,Wright N,Patel L,Banerjee I

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe current practice during stabilisation of children presenting with critical illness to the district general hospital (DGH), preceding retrieval to intensive care. DESIGN:Observational study using prospectively collected transport data. SETTING:A centralised intensive care retrieval service in Eng...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lampariello S,Clement M,Aralihond AP,Lutman D,Montgomery MA,Petros AJ,Ramnarayan P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of gastric emptying in the preterm infant has been hampered by the absence of a suitable, valid technique. We have evaluated gastric antral clearance using serial ultrasonic measurement of the antral cross sectional area (ACSA). The study was easy to perform, providing successful results in 15 of 17 low birt...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Newell SJ,Chapman S,Booth IW

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two male patients with congenital cleft lip and palate first seen at ages 10.2 and 21.5 years presented with typical signs of hypothalamic-interior pituitary hormone deficiencies. They were found to lack GH, LH, and FSH and to be partially deficient in TSH and ACTH. Several congenital defects may explain this rare syn...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Roitman A,Laron Z

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess sickle cell pain and coping in children and to examine the relation between these factors and the utilisation of health services. METHODS:Cross sectional study involving 67 children with sickle cell disease attending three London hospitals. Interviews and questionnaires involved measures of pain, health...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Anie KA,Steptoe A,Ball S,Dick M,Smalling BM

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pear shaped non-electrostatic spacer, composed of steel with a volume of 250 ml and equipped with a facemask containing integrated inlet and outlet valves for inspiration and expiration, was compared with three plastic spacers. The plastic spacers were primed with repeated puffs from a budesonide pressurised metered...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bisgaard H,Anhøj J,Klug B,Berg E

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven children with unilateral proptosis were investigated over a period of 8 1/2 years. Seventeen (63%) of them had local or disseminated malignancy, a higher proportion than in earlier reports. The frequency of inflammatory lesions, particularly ethmoiditis progressing to proptosis, appeared to have decreased...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Oakhill A,Willshaw H,Mann JR

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Grid is a training scheme that represents a unique partnership between Deaneries and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in offering through national competition, equitable access to high quality subspecialty training. Paediatrics is unusual in that within the umbrella Certificate of...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McGraw M,Ng G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 15 years, 42 children aged 2-14 years were diagnosed as having acquired aplastic anaemia. Adequate clinical details were available for 38 children who were categorised as very severe (n = 13), severe (n = 16), or nonsevere (n = 9) by the modified Camitta criteria. Treatment varied over the study period. Seven chi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Webb DK,Hann IM,Chessells JM

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatomegaly, the presenting feature of type IV glycogen storage disease at 20 months of age, regressed during childhood. The patient remained asymptomatic until 12 years of age when, after an episode of shock, septicaemia, and spontaneous peritonitis, liver transplantation was successfully performed. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dhawan A,Tan KC,Portmann B,Mowat AP

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that because of vascular interchange between the monozygous twins vascular disruptions from a deceased cotwin with disseminated intravascular coagulation causes embolisation in the surviving twin. This study reports six cases in which all the surviving monozygous twins had central nervous system ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Szymonowicz W,Preston H,Yu VY

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00