Venous thromboembolism in infancy and childhood.

abstract：AIMS:To determine whether the British 1990 growth charts are valid for cross sectional and longitudinal use in primary school children. METHODS:A total of 694 children aged 7-10 years from 10 Leeds primary schools were weighed and measured annually over three years by an expert auxologist. SD scores were calculated us...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rudolf MC,Cole TJ,Krom AJ,Sahota P,Walker J

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A register has been compiled of the 421 children with congenital cerebral palsy born between 1960 and 1975 from a defined geographical area of North East England (population 770 000). There was a fall in the rate of cerebral palsy among very low birthweight babies between 1964 and 1975 and also in the small group with...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jarvis SN,Holloway JS,Hey EN

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:School medical records of 1000 children born in 1981 were studied retrospectively. They showed that once known medical problems and those screened for by the school nurse (hearing, vision, growth) were excluded, only 17 problems requiring treatment were discovered: speech (n = 10), development (n = 3), undescended tes...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smith GC,Powell A,Reynolds K,Campbell CA

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes in transcutaneous oxygen tension (TcPO2) during 123 observations of 10 care procedures were compared with the intrinsic variability of the TcPO2 at the time of the procedures. Standard deviations of the TcPO2 were measured by planimetry from continuous recording in undisturbed infants during a 10-minute co...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Danford DA,Miske S,Headley J,Nelson RM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A tailor-made serogroup B outer membrane vesicle vaccine was evaluated in the context of a serogroup B meningococcal epidemic dominated by Neisseria meningitidis strain B:4:P1.7b,4. OBJECTIVE:To determine the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity in infants aged 6-8 months of a meningococcal B vaccine d...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jackson C,Lennon DR,Sotutu VT,Yan J,Stewart JM,Reid S,Crengle S,Oster P,Ypma E,Aaberge I,Mulholland K,Martin DR

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neonatal autosomal-recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is associated with pulmonary hypoplasia and severe respiratory distress. There is no published information on long-term lung function in ARPKD survivors. METHODS:Pulmonary function tests, including spirometry and diffusion capacity, were perform...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jahnukainen T,Kirjavainen T,Luoto T,Ylinen E,Linkosalo L,Arikoski P,Pakarinen M,Jalanko H

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To review the results of long term high dose intravenous immunoglobulin treatment. METHODS:162 treatment years in 18 patients with hypogammaglobulinaemia who received intravenous immunoglobulin treatment between 1973 and 1993 were reviewed. RESULTS:A mean dose of 0.42 g/kg immunoglobulin resulted in a mean troug...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Skull S,Kemp A

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When prescribing drugs for children, it is fundamental to acknowledge that they are distinct from adults with a different physiology and metabolism. They are also still maturing. The development of drugs with a primarily paediatric indication thus requires the trialling of these drugs in a paediatric population to ass...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Prasad S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10 1/2 year old boy presented with raised intracranial pressure and precocious puberty caused by a human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) secreting pineal germinoma. After craniospinal irradiation he improved clinically and his HCG concentration fell to an undetectable value. Two years later he remains well. Pineal ger...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ahmed SR,Shalet SM,Price DA,Pearson D

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of disseminated intravascular clotting (DIC) in the pathogenesis of the bleeding diathesis kwashiorkor was investigated in 22 patients. According to the severity of the clinical and haematological findings, two grades of DIC were observed. A severe grade of DIC was shown in 6 cases (5 fatal) presenting with ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hassanein EA,Tankovsky I

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neonate developed complete thrombosis of the abdominal aorta after catheterisation of the umbilical artery. This was successfully treated with an intravenous infusion of streptokinase. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kirk CR,Bhrolchain CN,Qureshi SA

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) To determine the prevalence of cough, wheeze, and breathlessness, both as single symptoms and in combination, in primary schoolchildren and their relation to doctor diagnosed asthma. (2) To identify in areas with different levels of dust pollution whether questionnaire reported 'cough alone' (without whe...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kelly YJ,Brabin BJ,Milligan PJ,Reid JA,Heaf D,Pearson MG

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When isolated from the female genital tract, diphtheroids are usually regarded as commensal organisms. Corynebacterium kutscheri however is a pathogen in laboratory rodents. We report a case in which C. kutscheri was isolated as a pure culture from the umbilical cord and from other surface sites in an infant. Histolog...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fitter WF,de Sa DJ,Richardson H

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Congenital laryngomalacia (CLM) is the major cause of stridor in infants. Most cases are expected to resolve before 2 years of age, but long-term respiratory prospects are poorly described. We aimed to investigate if CLM was associated with altered laryngeal structure or function in later life. METHODS:Twen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hilland M,Røksund OD,Sandvik L,Haaland Ø,Aarstad HJ,Halvorsen T,Heimdal JH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The number of trips to the tropics taken by children with chronic health disorders (CHDs) is increasing. METHODS:All of the children with CHDs who attended two international vaccination centres in France before travelling to the tropics were included in a prospective, exposed/unexposed study. Each child was...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ducrocq C,Sommet J,Levy D,Trieu TV,Quercia F,Morin L,Belletre X,Koehl B,Sorge F,Alberti C,de Pontual L,Faye A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fall in body temperature that occurs in babies soon after birth is influenced by the baby's weight and its environmental conditions. The rate of oxygen consumption 1 1/2 hours after birth was unrelated to body temperature and only slightly raised, indicating a limited thermogenic capacity. A radiant heater effecti...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smales OR,Kime R

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：:Six newborn infants with intrauterine supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (five cases of atrial flutter and one of supraventricular tachycardia) are described. Transplacental digitalisation was attempted in three cases. Supraventricular tachycardia associated with hydrops fetalis, detected in a fetus at a gestation of 3...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nagashima M,Asai T,Suzuki C,Matsushima M,Ogawa A

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative biochemical criteria for lung growth and maturation were compared with the histological appearances in hypoplastic lungs from 20 fetuses and newborn infants. Cases associated with oligohydramnios showed a characteristic series of changes with narrow airways, retardation of epithelial and interstitial grow...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wigglesworth JS,Desai R,Guerrini P

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The difficulty of distinguishing surgically correctable causes of conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia in infants from other causes means that some infants may undergo laparotomy and intraoperative cholangiography unnecessarily, and others may be referred for surgery too late. In an attempt to improve the diagnostic accurac...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wilkinson ML,Mieli-Vergani G,Ball C,Portmann B,Mowat AP

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To develop waist circumference (WC) centile curves for UK South Asian children, to make comparisons with published centiles for British, indigenous Indian and Pakistani children, as well as to make anthropometric comparisons with their UK white peers. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study. SETTING:School-aged child...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shah M,Radia D,McCarthy HD

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syncope in childhood is very common. The vast majority of episodes are benign, and are due to neurocardiogenic syncope. Only a minority are due to something potentially more serious or life threatening. The diagnosis and differentiation of benign from more serious causes of syncope is made primarily by the history. In...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McLeod KA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus was observed in 29 of 448 patients with thalassaemia major attending seven Italian centres. Twelve patients, at onset of clinical diabetes, presented with an asymptomatic glycosuria, 13 with ketosis, and four with ketoacidosis. All were diagnosed after 1979, at a mean age of 17 years. Mean age at dia...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： De Sanctis V,Zurlo MG,Senesi E,Boffa C,Cavallo L,Di Gregorio F

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether school readiness could be affected by placing electronic devices (EDs) in children's bedroom and whether the relationship was moderated by parental restriction and family socioeconomic status (SES). DESIGN:This is a cross-sectional study with bedroom ED placement and parental restricti...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fu KW,Ho FKW,Rao N,Jiang F,Li SL,Lee TM,Chan SH,Yung AW,Young ME,Ip P

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety seven teachers of diabetic pupils in Liverpool completed a questionnaire designed to assess their knowledge of diabetes mellitus and the sources from which they had obtained information. The survey aimed to evaluate their understanding and to aid in planning an alternative policy of teacher education. Only 24 t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bradbury AJ,Smith CS

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Published reports on the treatment of large strawberry naevi have been reviewed. It is suggested that they should normally be left untreated, and that corticosteroids, given for a short period only, should be reserved for massive naevi close to the eye, or interfering with respiration or suckling, or associated with t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Illingworth RS

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, there have been significant advances in genetic technologies, evolving the field of genomics from genetics. This has huge diagnostic potential, as genomic testing increasingly becomes part of mainstream medicine. However, there are numerous potential pitfalls in the interpretation of genomic data. It ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hammond CL,Willoughby JM,Parker MJ

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate a population of individuals with 22q11 deletion syndrome for hypocalcaemia. METHODS:A detailed clinical history enquiring into symptoms of hypocalcaemia and blood sampling to assess for hypocalcaemia and hypoparathyroidism, of patients outside the neonatal period known to have the 22q11 microdeleti...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Taylor SC,Morris G,Wilson D,Davies SJ,Gregory JW

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six neonates with aneurysms of the vein of Galen are described: five were associated with an intracerebral arteriovenous fistula and presented with heart failure in the neonatal period; one had hydrocephalus at birth. Two infants died from intractable cardiac failure within 48 hours of age and two from progressive hyd...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Donnabhain D,Duff DF

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperatures of 587 children were taken before and after diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis (DTP) or diphtheria/tetanus (DT) vaccine. Only slight temperature increases were found but these were notably more frequent after plain than adsorbed DTP vaccine preparations and the frequency increased with each successive dose....

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Waight PA,Pollock TM,Miller E,Coleman EM

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00