Serum tri-iodothyronine, thyroxine, and thyrotrophin concentrations in newborns during the first 2 days of life.

abstract：:Three of five children who were born to consanguineous parents developed Guillain-Barré syndrome before they were 3 years old. The syndrome is rare in early childhood and we suggest that there may be a genetic element in the pathogenesis. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bar-Joseph G,Etzioni A,Hemli J,Gershoni-Baruch R

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:Serum IgG antibodies to teichoic acid and alpha toxin from Staphylococcus aureus were measured in 62 patients with cystic fibrosis by enzyme linked immunosorbent assays. The patients were followed up for 12-24 months in a prospective study. Raised titres were found exclusively in patients chronically colonised with S ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hollsing AE,Granström M,Strandvik B

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketamine hydrochloride 2 mg/kg, together with atropine 0.2 mg, has been given intravenously on 100 occasions on a general paediatric ward. No serious side effects occurred. Dreams followed in 4 children but did not reduce acceptability of the drug. In our hands it has greatly reduced the pain and distress of children ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elliott E,Hanid TK,Arthur LJ,Kay B

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Coventry Consensus in 1998 recommended a single height measurement of all children at school entry or around the age of 5 years and prompt referral of children with height <0.4th centile for further assessment, in order to identify undetected and treatable asymptomatic growth disorders. AIM:To determine...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Banerjee S,Morgan RJ,Rees SA,Latif AH

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To reduce the overall expenditure on melatonin for the local health economy by working collaboratively with the CCG's. To ensure that all paediatric patients prescribed melatonin have been clinically assessed by a specialist and the most appropriate formulation is dispensed. METHOD:Evaluation of GP melatonin presc...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Haley H

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have shown a correlation between increased accident rates and levels of deprivation in the community. School accident reporting is one area where an association might be expected. AIMS:To investigate differences in primary school accident rates in deprived and more affluent wards, in an area managed...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Latif AH,Williams WR,Sibert J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative morphological assessment was carried out of the cellularity and staining properties of the cells of the layers of the human cerebellar cortex, both in the normal child and in 41 children suffering from a series of disorders including mental retardation. A computerized image analyser and highly standardi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gadson DR,Emery JL

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The duration of symptoms before diagnosis (lag time) was defined for 184 of 236 children diagnosed as having a malignancy at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh for the time period January 1982 until December 1990. The natural logarithm of the lag time was correlated with age, gender, diagnostic group, whi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Saha V,Love S,Eden T,Micallef-Eynaud P,MacKinlay G

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of negative hydrogen breath tests due to colonic bacterial flora which are unable to produce hydrogen was determined after oral lactulose challenge in 98 healthy Dutch schoolchildren. There was a negative result in 9.2%. The probability of a false normal lactose breath test (1:77) was calculated from the...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Douwes AC,Schaap C,van der Klei-van Moorsel JM

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the potential effect of two guideline discharge oxygen saturation (SpO(2)) recommendations (≥90% and ≥94%) in recovering bronchiolitis. METHODS AND PATIENTS:Infants aged up to 18 months requiring therapeutic oxygen for SpO(2) (≤93%) had SpO(2) assessed in air every 2 h. Time from admission to re-e...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cunningham S,McMurray A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paediatric early warning scores (PEWS) are widely used as an adjunct to support staff in recognising deterioration in hospitalised children. Relatively little is known about how staff use these systems. OBJECTIVE:To examine the completeness and accuracy of PEWS recording in hospitalised children in a tertia...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chapman SM,Oulton K,Peters MJ,Wray J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No consistent differences were found in mean heights and weights of 170 schoolchildren aged 6--12 years with the sickle cell trait and 1247 schoolchildren with normal haemoglobin living in Dominica and Jamaica. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ashcroft MT,Desai P,Grell GA,Serjeant BE,Serjeant GR

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The British (Tanner and Whitehouse) and American (National Center for Health Statistics, NCHS) growth standards are widely used internationally, although the data are now over 30 years old. Routine weight data was retrieved from the child health records of a complete annual cohort of 3418 children aged 18-30 months to...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wright CM,Waterston A,Aynsley-Green A

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Assays based on interferon gamma (IFNgamma) are an exciting new development for screening for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in adults, but there are limited data on their effectiveness in children. Nevertheless new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommend their ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Taylor RE,Cant AJ,Clark JE

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth velocity of head circumference was studied longitudinally in different gestational age groups of 222 appropriate-weight-for-dates (AFD) and 94 small-for-dates (SFD) healthy infants during the first 5 months of life. Term AFD and SFD infants showed a steady slowing of growth rate of head circumference from birth...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fujimura M,Seryu JI

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doppler ultrasound measurements of pulmonary blood flow in 20 babies with severe respiratory distress syndrome treated in a randomised controlled trial of surfactant replacement showed that the immediate improvement of oxygenation was not associated with a significant increase in pulmonary blood flow. Reduction in ven...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Halliday HL,McCord FB,McClure BG,Reid MM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple double blind placebo controlled challenges with tartrazine 50 mg (three challenges) and glucose placebo (three challenges) were performed in 12 children with atopic eczema aged 1 to 6 years. The children were selected on the basis of severity (regular clinic attenders) and a parental history that tartrazine p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Devlin J,David TJ

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pethidine or an epidural injection of bupivacaine are common forms of obstetric analgesia in Britain. Bupivacaine has been thought to have little effect on the fetus, but neurobehavioural studies have cast doubt on this. We therefore investigated the elimination of these drugs by babies in similar population groups. B...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cooper LV,Stephen GW,Aggett PJ

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 21 month old male infant who presented with failure to thrive associated with severe hypokalaemia and metabolic acidosis, together with hypomagnesaemia. Evaluation revealed marked renal and probable faecal potassium wasting, distal renal tubular acidosis, mild urinary magnesium wasting, and a normal gast...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Simpson AM,Schwartz GJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if administration of oral prednisolone to preschool children with acute wheeze alters respiratory outcomes. DESIGN:Double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled equivalence trial. SETTING:Three hospitals in New Zealand. PATIENTS:477 children aged 24-59 months with acute wheeze associated with r...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wallace A,Sinclair O,Shepherd M,Neutze J,Trenholme A,Tan E,Brabyn C,Bonisch M,Grey N,Johnson DW,McNamara D,Thompson JMD,Asher I,Dalziel SR

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Standing height, sitting height, armspan, subischial leg length, head circumference, and growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) axis were determined in 86 patients with osteogenesis imperfecta. The aim of this study was to determine standing height and body proportions and their variability among osteogen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lund AM,Müller J,Skovby F

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease is a rare form of primary pulmonary hypertension of unknown aetiology. Four cases were diagnosed in young patients. The diagnosis was suspected on the basis of clinical, radiological, echocardiographic, and catheter evidence and confirmed by taking a lung biopsy sample. In all patients...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Justo RN,Dare AJ,Whight CM,Radford DJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for securing umbilical catheters is described. It has been used successfully in over 350 babies. It is a simple and rapid method that allows for easy repositioning and, unlike some established techniques, has no potential for damage to the preterm baby's skin. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： South M,Magnay A

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty nine infants with severe asphyxia (28 affected perinatally and 11 later) were studied by electrophysiological cerebral function monitoring (CFM) for periods varying from a half to 49 days. Nineteen infants died while still in intensive care and two died later from sequelae. Eighteen survived and were followed u...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bjerre I,Hellström-Westas L,Rosén I,Svenningsen N

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast fed infants may be at greater risk of mother to infant hepatitis B virus infection compared with formula fed infants. We studied 85 infants born to 84 hepatitis B surface antigen positive mothers (only two of whom were hepatitis B e positive), and who had received immunisation against hepatitis B virus. Our res...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Martino M,Appendino C,Resti M,Rossi ME,Muccioli AT,Vierucci A

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paediatric gynaecology is an emerging discipline. Since 2000, there has been an advanced training programme in paediatric gynaecology available for obstetric and gynaecology trainees; additionally, a set of clinical standards 1 for the care of paediatric and adolescent patients has been developed by The British Societ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ritchie JK,Latthe P,Jyothish D,Blair JC

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute viral respiratory illness during infancy has been implicated as a precursor for subsequent lower respiratory morbidity in childhood. A prospective, longitudinal study of respiratory function, airway responsiveness, and lower respiratory illness during early childhood was performed in a cohort of 253 healthy infa...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Young S,O'Keeffe PT,Arnott J,Landau LI

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Poor condition at birth may impact on IQ, although its effect on other measures of neurodevelopment is unclear. The authors' aim was to determine whether infants receiving resuscitation after birth have reduced scores in measures of attention, memory and language skills or the need for educational support at ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Odd DE,Whitelaw A,Gunnell D,Lewis G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung function tests were carried out in the first 6 hours of life on 26 babies born by vaginal delivery and 10 born by caesarean section. The babies born by caesarean section had a mean thoracic gas volume of only 19.7 ml/kg body weight compared with 32.7 ml/kg for the babies born vaginally. We conclude that this is o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Milner AD,Saunders RA,Hopkin IE

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00