Heart murmurs recorded by a sensor based electronic stethoscope and e-mailed for remote assessment.

abstract：:A 14-month-old girl with invasive perineal amoebiasis is reported. There was destruction of the anus, the rectovaginal septum, the pelvic floor, and the perineum. The rapid progress and destructive potential of perineal amoebiasis is noted and the benefits of diagnostic awareness emphasised. Treatment with metronidazo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wynne JM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five cases of serious injuries to children wearing superhero costumes, involving extreme risk-taking behaviour, are presented here. Although children have always displayed behaviour seemingly unwise to the adult eye, the advent of superhero role models can give unrealistic expectations to the child, which may lead to ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Davies P,Surridge J,Hole L,Munro-Davies L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of platelet thromboxane B2, a stable metabolite of thromboxane A2, was measured in seven newborn infants with pulmonary hypertension during the first day of life. Platelet thromboxane B2 production was significantly lower than in 12 healthy controls but did not correlate with simultaneous blood gas values. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kääpä P

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Travel for the purposes of obtaining medical treatment is increasing, but very little is known about the extent or nature of child medical travel. This paper discusses the outcome of a systematic search for academic literature on paediatric medical travel, outlines the potential significance of 'return health migratio...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Culley L,Hudson N,Baldwin K,Lakhanpaul M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report highlights the association between tuberous sclerosis and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Ten patients with concurrent diagnoses of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and tuberous sclerosis were identified. Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome presented early in life, nine cases being diagnosed in the first year. Ei...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Callaghan FJ,Clarke AC,Joffe H,Keeton B,Martin R,Salmon A,Thomas RD,Osborne JP

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium spp are a cause of diarrhoea in toddlers. Symptoms and routes of transmission were investigated in a prospective case-control study in the city and surroundings of Basel, Switzerland. Twenty one (4.6%) out of 455 children with diarrhoea who attended paediatric and general practices from June to Septemb...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Egger M,Mäusezahl D,Odermatt P,Marti HP,Tanner M

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight infants with severe hyperosmolar dehydration and hypernatraemia were treated, using three regimens of intravenous fluids: A. 1/2 normal saline, given fast; B.1/2 normal saline given slowly; C. 1/5 normal saline. 28 of the infants were studied in a treatment trial, and it is concluded tha 0-18% saline in 4...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Banister A,Matin-Siddiqi SA,Hatcher GW

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and eleven children admitted with suspected gastro-oesophageal reflux were studied, with 24 hour oesophageal pH monitoring as the first line of investigation. Barium swallow examination, or oesophagoscopy, or both, were carried out only in children with abnormal pH, who subsequently had a trial of 1-12 mon...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Da Dalt L,Mazzoleni S,Montini G,Donzelli F,Zacchello F

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine whether emergency hospital admission rates (EAR) for common paediatric conditions in Greater London are associated with measures of child well-being and deprivation. DESIGN:Retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics and secondary analysis of the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2007 and ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kyle RG,Kukanova M,Campbell M,Wolfe I,Powell P,Callery P

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of childhood atopic eczema on families and assess the personal financial cost of its management. DESIGN:Cross sectional survey. SETTING:Paediatric dermatology and paediatric diabetology outpatient clinics. PATIENTS:Parents of 48 randomly selected children with atopic eczema and 46 wi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Su JC,Kemp AS,Varigos GA,Nolan TM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis for three years required three monthly transfusions. Circulating avian, gliadin, and reticulin antibodies suggested the diagnosis of gluten enteropathy, and jejunal biopsy showed subtotal villous atrophy. During 15 months on a gluten free diet his growth and behaviour i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reading R,Watson JG,Platt JW,Bird AG

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy six children, 18 boys and 58 girls, aged 0-15.9 (median 1.0) years, with acute pyelonephritis were prospectively studied with a technetium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scan during infection and two months later. Fifty nine of these children were also studied two years after the infection. Seventeen child...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jakobsson B,Berg U,Svensson L

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lactulose/L-rhamnose urinary excretion ratio during continued infusion of milks containing both sugars was used as an index of the permeability of the neonatal bowel to large and small molecules. Healthy infants of gestational age 31-36 weeks proved to have a period of enhanced permeability to lactulose during the...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Beach RC,Menzies IS,Clayden GS,Scopes JW

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic rhythms were studied over 24 hours in eight adolescent diabetic patients during treatment with porcine insulin and after transfer to human insulin. Despite an increase in dose with human insulin no significant changes were found in fasting blood glucose, 24h mean blood glucose, or glycosylated haemoglobin co...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hocking MD,Crase J,Rayner PH,Nattrass M

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of albumin/creatinine ratios and simple albumin concentrations in early morning urine specimens were evaluated to establish which was the best screening test for those likely to have microalbuminuria by the reference standard analysis of timed overnight urine specimens. The measurement of an albumin/cr...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shield JP,Hunt LP,Baum JD,Pennock CA

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：:Pancreatic lipase catalyses the hydrolysis of emulsified triglycerides to form a transparent solution of monoglycerides and fatty acids. Levels of serum pancreatic lipase were measured in neonates known to have cystic fibrosis and compared with levels in control infants. During the first weeks of life infants with cys...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Adriaenssens K,Van Riel L

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess factors associated with granting of the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for Down syndrome. DESIGN:Cross-sectional survey. SETTING:Families with a child with Down syndrome enrolled in a community-based trial of vitamin supplementation. PARTICIPANTS:156 children with trisomy 21 (59% male, 20% no...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ellis J,Logan S,Pumphrey R,Tan HK,Henley W,Edwards V,Moy R,Gilbert R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective medical examination of children starting school has been operated in Cramlington for five years, and the data for the school year 1984-85 are reported. It is argued that the 'routine medical' is an outdated concept and that its abolition would allow more time for more important aspects of educational medicin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Callaghan EM,Colver AF

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe common patterns of bath water scald injuries in children, to examine differences between accidental and non-accidental bath water scalds in children, and to examine potential for prevention. DESIGN:A two year six month retrospective analysis of admissions to a specialist burns unit. SETTING:The...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Yeoh C,Nixon JW,Dickson W,Kemp A,Sibert JR

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:Eighteen children with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia diagnosed over a period of 16 years at a children's hospital are reviewed. All had an underlying disease, either congenital immunodeficiency or a malignancy. 15 patients were treated, 10 with pentamidine isethionate alone, 2 with both pentamidine and co-trimoxazole...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lipson A,Marshall WC,Hayward AR

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The USA has a long-standing paediatric influenza vaccination programme, including use of live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV). Following US evidence of apparent lack of vaccine effectiveness (VE) of LAIV in 2015/2016, particularly against A(H1N1)pdm09, the USA suspended the use of LAIV in the 2016/2017 season. The...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pebody R,McMenamin J,Nohynek H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Growth hormone insufficiency (GHI) is diagnosed conventionally by short stature and slow growth, and is confirmed by diminished peak GH response to a provocation test. Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and IGF binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3) have previously been considered individually OBJECTIVE:To test the ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mitchell H,Dattani MT,Nanduri V,Hindmarsh PC,Preece MA,Brook CG

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild hypnotics are often recommended for young children with sleep problems. This study assesses the efficacy of trimeprazine tartrate in 1 to 3 year old children with persistent and severe night waking in a double blind crossover trial with placebo. Children on treatment with trimeprazine had significantly fewer waki...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Simonoff EA,Stores G

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Intravenous paracetamol (acetaminophen) has recently been registered for treatment of pain in neonates but the pharmacodynamics, including effects on body temperature, have not been reported. METHODS:A pooled analysis on body temperature recordings in neonates exposed to intravenous paracetamol was perfor...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hopchet L,Kulo A,Rayyan M,Verbesselt R,Vanhole C,de Hoon JN,Allegaert K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 164 children born within the defined boundaries of greater Manchester during the years 1981 to 1984 inclusive were identified as having bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, giving a prevalence of 1.2/1000 population of 1/817 births. Ninety three children developed an additional conductive hearing loss sec...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Das VK

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of nine children with community acquired pneumonia with evidence of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae coinfection are described. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Toikka P,Juvén T,Virkki R,Leinonen M,Mertsola J,Ruuskanen O

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Use next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology to improve our diagnostic yield in patients with suspected genetic disorders in the Asian setting. DESIGN:A diagnostic study conducted between 2014 and 2019 (and ongoing) under the Singapore Undiagnosed Disease Program. Date of last analysis was 1 July 2019. S...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bhatia NS,Lim JY,Bonnard C,Kuan JL,Brett M,Wei H,Cham B,Chin H,Bosso-Lefevre C,Dharuman P,Escande-Beillard N,Devasia AG,Goh CYJ,Kam S,Liew WK,Liew WK,Lin G,Jain K,Ng AY,Subramanian D,Xie M,Tan YM,Tawari NR,T

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess uptake of community-based capillary thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) screening in Scotland and determine the optimal frequency of screening, the justification for preschool screening and strategies for treatment. METHODS:Subjects with Down's syndrome aged 1-19 years underwent capillary TSH measur...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McGowan S,Jones J,Brown A,Reynolds L,Leyland K,Charleton P,Rahim M,Mansor M,Ritha S,Donaldson M,Scottish Down Syndrome Thyroid Screening Group.

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00