Metrorrhagia and precocious puberty revealing primary hypothyroidism in a child with Down's syndrome.

abstract：AIMS:Out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a rare but devastating event in children and adolescents. The risk is assumed to be higher in children with congenital heart defects (CHDs) than in healthy individuals. The aim of the present study was to investigate the rate of and survival after out-of-hospital card...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jortveit J,Klcovansky J,Døhlen G,Eskedal L,Birkeland S,Holmstrøm H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although antibiotics are recommended for the primary care management of community-acquired pneumonia, a recent UK study reported that most children admitted to hospital had not received antibiotics. OBJECTIVE:To describe primary care antibiotic use for children subsequently hospitalised with community-acqui...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Grant CC,Harnden A,Mant D,Emery D,Coster G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of chemoprophylaxis with rifampicin and isoniazid in 1981 significantly reduced the incidence of tuberculosis. Between 1978 and 1981 children accounted for 136 of 642 notified cases, and this was reduced to 55 of 418 between 1982 and 1986. This effect was most obvious among children from the Indian su...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ormerod LP

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent daytime incontinence is a fairly uncommon but important problem. Videourodynamic studies were carried out in 215 children presenting with this problem in whom there were no neurological signs and who had not responded to simple measures. Over 90% of symptomatic children were shown to have an abnormality, of...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Borzyskowski M,Mundy AR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The range of thermal control and the thermoneutral range of preterm infants under 30 weeks' gestation was calculated by extrapolation of data from studies on more mature infants. Even assuming some thermoregulatory capacity, the range of control is less than 3 degrees C, the thermoneutral range is less than 0.5 degree...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wheldon AE,Hull D

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed puberty (DP) is defined as the lack of pubertal development by an age that is 2-2.5 SDs beyond the population mean. Although it generally represents a normal variant in pubertal timing, concern that DP could be the initial presentation of a serious underlying disorder has led to a diagnostic approach that is v...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Abitbol L,Zborovski S,Palmert MR

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preductal and postductal oxygen saturation were compared in 20 ventilated preterm infants with hyaline membrane disease to establish the frequency of right to left shunting and to assess the accuracy of postductus arteriosus blood gas sampling. One hundred and thirty eight comparisons were made and the frequency of ri...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Macdonald PD,Yu VY

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vanessa is a 34-year-old lawyer married to a police officer. Her first baby was born after a perfect pregnancy and labour until fetal distress necessitated an easy Ventouse extraction late in the second stage. Baby F had normal Apgar scores and weighed 2920 g. This paper records a conversation between Vaness...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Harris V,Hall D

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Six children with congenital heart disease are described in whom poor growth was found to be due to small-bowel villous atrophy; none was in heart failure and only one was severely cyanosed. Growth improved in all 6 on a gluten-free diet. Gluten enteropathy may be more common than is realised in children with congenit...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Congdon PJ,Fiddler GI,Littlewood JM,Scott O

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Congenital hypothyroidism (CHT) is a common cause of preventable mental retardation, and the quantification of intellectual disability due to CHT is needed to assess the public health benefit of newborn screening. DESIGN:Review of published studies conducted among children born prior to the introduction of n...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Grosse SD,Van Vliet G

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The amount of adipose tissue influences pubertal development and fertility in girls. A candidate for mediating this is the hormone leptin, derived from adipocytes. This work was carried out to determine whether the leptin concentration in serum is regulated during pubertal development. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Carlsson B,Ankarberg C,Rosberg S,Norjavaara E,Albertsson-Wikland K,Carlsson LM

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the presence of in vitro penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae increases the risk of clinical failure in children hospitalised with severe pneumonia and treated with penicillin/ampicillin. DESIGN:Multicentre, prospective, observational study. SETTING:12 tertiary-care centres in ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cardoso MR,Nascimento-Carvalho CM,Ferrero F,Berezin EN,Ruvinsky R,Camargos PA,Sant'anna CC,Brandileone MC,de Fátima P March M,Feris-Iglesias J,Maggi RS,Benguigui Y,CARIBE Group.

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-week-old girl with fever, hypernatraemia, dehydration, and polyuria failed to concentrate urine in response to exogenous vasopressin administration. There was no family history of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus. When she was 15 months old, the infusion of vasopressin did not produce an increase in urinary cyclic-A...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Schreiner RL,Skafish PR,Anand SK,Northway JD

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is an imprinted disorder characterised by intrauterine growth retardation, relative macrocephaly, failure to thrive, typical facial phenotype and frequent body asymmetry. Feeding difficulties are frequently noted, but no study described evolution of gastrointestinal signs during...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Marsaud C,Rossignol S,Tounian P,Netchine I,Dubern B

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the efficacy of a new regimen of intravenous atropine treatment for infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) with special reference to regression of pyloric hypertrophy. METHODS:Atropine was given intravenously at a dose of 0.01 mg/kg six times a day before feeding in 19 patients with IHPS diagnos...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kawahara H,Imura K,Nishikawa M,Yagi M,Kubota A

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Prematometer is a new instrument for the accurate measurement of the length of small neonates inside incubators. It is capable of giving precise results. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smith RA,Newcombe RG,Coggins AM,Gray OP

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the prevalence of depression in children with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and investigate the relationship between depression in CFS/ME and clinical symptoms such as fatigue, disability, pain and school attendance. DESIGN:Cross-sectional survey data using the Hos...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bould H,Collin SM,Lewis G,Rimes K,Crawley E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipofuscin develops in cells when peroxidation damage occurs. Its development in the liver of patients receiving prolonged parenteral nutrition suggests that peroxidation damage by free radicals has occurred. Deficiencies in antioxidants such as vitamin E may be an important contributing factor. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Berger HM,Den Ouden AL,Calame JJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：:Twenty two babies under 1 year old were referred for evaluation of suspected epileptic seizures. Nine were found to have epilepsy. In the other 13--all developing normally, aged up to 10 months--the spells were non-epileptic paroxysmal events (NEPE). They consisted of five patterns of movement: (1) eye blinking; (2) '...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shuper A,Mimouni M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified nasopharyngeal tube is described that does not add airway dead space and resistance, is well tolerated, highly successful, and allows simultaneous use of oxygen prongs. This potentially reduces the need for surgical intervention to relieve high upper airway obstruction from Pierre-Robin syndrome and other c...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Masters IB,Chang AB,Harris M,O'Neil MC

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children with cystic fibrosis developed steatorrhoea unresponsive to changes in pancreatic supplements. The final diagnoses were chronic giardiasis, stagnant loop syndrome, and Crohn's disease. Refractory intestinal symptoms in cystic fibrosis merit further investigation. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Baxter PS,Dickson JA,Variend S,Taylor CJ

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate how parents report children's respiratory sounds on video compared to a clinical "gold standard". METHODS:Five clinicians agreed on 10 video clips of children with audible breathing. These responses were the "gold standard". The clips were shown to parents of children: (a) with asthma/wheeze; (b) w...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cane RS,McKenzie SA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Th incidence and severity of posterior subcapsular cataracts were studied in 58 children with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome. Eight (14%) children had cataracts. Visual acuity was normal in all but one child. There was no relationship between total dose or mean daily dose of prednisolone (corrected for body surf...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Brocklebank JT,Harcourt RB,Meadow SR

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:In 1999, invasive meningococcal disease was hyperendemic in Ireland at 14.75/100 000 population, with 60% group B and 30% group C diseases. National sepsis guidelines and meningococcal C vaccines were introduced in 2000. Despite a spontaneous decline in group B infection, invasive meningococcal disease remai...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ó Maoldomhnaigh C,Drew RJ,Gavin P,Cafferkey M,Butler KM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moderate and severe malnutrition are endemic in much of the developing world and in association with pockets of deprivation in the developed world. The cost in terms of individual and social development is high. The principles of effective management are clearly documented. A low cost, community based treatment progra...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bredow MT,Jackson AA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the frequency of use of complementary treatment and measure its impact on clinical outcomes in a hospitalised general paediatric population. METHODS:A population based random sample of children admitted to the general paediatric service at a metropolitan children's hospital in Auckland, New Zealand fr...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Armishaw J,Grant CC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the relationship between serum point-of-care (POC) ketones at triage and moderate-to-severe dehydration based on the validated Gorelick Scales. DESIGN, SETTING AND PATIENTS:Prospective unblinded study from April 2016 to February 2017 in a paediatric emergency department. Patients aged 1 month to...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Durnin S,Jones J,Ryan E,Howard R,Walsh S,Dawkins I,Blackburn C,O'Donnell SM,Barrett MJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00