Height screening at school: ineffective without high standards and adequate resources.

abstract：:To use a combined single document clinical case sheet/computer record which can form the basic document for a life medical record is a practical proposition. With adequate briefing doctors and nurses soon become familiar with the record and appreciate its value. Secretarial and clerical requirements are reduced to a m...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Walker CH

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Obesity is considered a polygenic and multifactorial disorder and different single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) are involved. Studies concerning their impact on weight loss in lifestyle intervention are scarce. METHODS:The effect of two different SNP (INSIG2: rs7566605, FTO: rs9939609) was analysed on the ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reinehr T,Hinney A,Toschke AM,Hebebrand J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is well established as an initial therapy for Kawasaki disease (KD), but treatment for IVIG-resistant KD remains uncertain AIM:To analyse the effects of intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP) pulse therapy compared with additional IVIG in IVIG-resistant patients. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Furukawa T,Kishiro M,Akimoto K,Nagata S,Shimizu T,Yamashiro Y

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with type 1 diabetes should be encouraged to participate in physical activity because exercise can benefit insulin sensitivity and improve known risk factors for atherosclerosis. METHODS:Physical activity patterns of 127 children and adolescents with stable type 1 diabetes were investigated by 24 h...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Massin MM,Lebrethon MC,Rocour D,Gérard P,Bourguignon JP

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most children with daytime wetting have detrusor instability. A minority have neuropathic vesicourethral dysfunction. The commonest cause is spina bifida, which may be closed. Clinical features suggestive of closed spina bifida include cutaneous, neuro-orthopaedic or lumbosacral spine x ray abnormalities, im...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wraige E,Borzyskowski M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five cases are reported of spontaneous remission of chronic childhood thrombocytopenia four or more years after diagnosis. Other than typical features of chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura there were no obvious markers predictive of late remission, although a slow progressive recovery was common to four of th...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tait RC,Evans DI

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant folate deficiency in 14 out of 37 preterm infants of birthweights 2.0 kg or less was found to be reliably and most conveniently diagnosed by abnormal morphological changes in peripheral blood and confirmed by the response to folic acid. Deficiency appeared to be more common in light-for-dates infants inclu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Strelling MK,Blackledge DG,Goodall HB

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructose absorption was studied by the breath hydrogen test in 114 healthy children aged 0.1-6 years, given either 2 g/kg or 1 g/kg of fructose. All 57 children given 2 g/kg had peak breath hydrogen excretions > or = 20 ppm. At 1 g/kg only 25/57 (44%) showed incomplete absorption and the percentage incompletely absorb...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hoekstra JH,van Kempen AA,Bijl SB,Kneepkens CM

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Four children, including three infants, who died suddenly and unexpectedly are described. In three of the cases group A beta haemolytic streptococcus was cultured and in the fourth Streptococcus pneumoniae. The organism was grown from multiple sites including blood in two of them. Without microbiological investigation...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sharief N,Khan K,Conlan P

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9 year old girl with symptoms of the Sjögren syndrome showed interstitial lymphocytic infiltrate on renal biopsy. Two years later she had clinical and biological evidence of systemic lupus erythematosus, associated with a typical glomerulonephritis. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Palcoux JB,Janin-Mercier A,Campagne D,Fonck Y,Betail G

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacogenomics research is becoming more prevalent in both academia and the pharmaceutical industry. While some discoveries have been integrated into practice and are benefiting patient care, these successes have been limited given the vast amount of research undertaken. However, the advances in high-throughput geno...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hawcutt DB,Thompson B,Smyth RL,Pirmohamed M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children receiving chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) may be susceptible to skeletal morbidity. AIM:To determine the incidence and risk factors for skeletal morbidity in ALL children. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The medical records of all (n=186, boys=110) children presenting to a single centre ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elmantaser M,Stewart G,Young D,Duncan R,Gibson B,Ahmed SF

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of babies colonised with gentamicin resistant Gram negative organisms in a nursery over a 30 month period did not correlate with the quantity or duration of aminoglycosides used, but it did correlate with two indicators of workload: the number of baby days and a score based on the level of nursing care ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Isaacs D,Catterson J,Hope PL,Moxon ER,Wilkinson AR

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The decision to participate in infant screening often rests with parents. Medical ethics require that parental decision is elicited from informed choice. Such a decision is influenced by the parental knowledge and attitude towards screening and a careful evaluation of these factors is essential in seeking informed con...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Olusanya BO,Luxon LM,Wirz SL

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with raised intracranial pressure responding to ventriculoperitoneal shunting are described in whom ultrasound failed to show dilated ventricles. The importance of not equating absence of ventricular dilatation with normal pressure and ventricular dilatation with high pressure is emphasised. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pilling DW,Cudmore RE

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) remains a controversial disorder, despite it now being a well validated clinical diagnosis. Ethical and legal issues are important in determining how doctors should behave in offering a diagnosis or treatment that may generate strong and unpredictable reactions from chil...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Foreman DM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the availability and the licensing status of analgesic drugs marketed in three European countries (Italy, France and the UK) and evaluated the evidence on safety and efficacy in the paediatric population of the drugs reported in the European Medicines Evaluation (EMA) document "Assessment of Pediat...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fortinguerra F,Maschi S,Clavenna A,Bonati M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus infection is still a major public health problem worldwide, since more than 350 million people have chronic, lifelong infection and nearly 1 million deaths occur each year owing to complications. Most infections are acquired at birth or during early childhood. Nowadays, low- and middle-income countri...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nannini P,Sokal EM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine current use of vitamin K (VK) prophylaxis in newborns and review the efficacy and effectiveness of regimens used. DESIGN:Efficacy and effectiveness calculated using current practice details, data from Southern Ireland and two previous surveys, together with contemporaneous studies of vitamin K d...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Busfield A,McNinch A,Tripp J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a five and a half year period, exchange transfusions were performed through the peripheral vessels in 201 of the 214 infants (94%) who required either double volume or partial plasma exchange transfusions. Peripheral vessel exchange transfusion is simple, practicable, and safe with few complications. Technical ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fok TF,So LY,Leung KW,Wong W,Feng CS,Tsang SS

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To identify the experiences of patients, parents or carers when a child/young person is prescribed a new long-term medicine. METHOD:Patients' prescribed a new long-term (>6 weeks) medicine were recruited from a single UK paediatric hospital out-patient pharmacy.A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Aston J,Wilson K,Terry D

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:The age distribution of anginose infectious mononucleosis in children was analysed retrospectively for the years 1966-85. During that period the disease became significantly more common in children of a young age and less common in older children. This shift could not be attributed either to socioeconomic conditions o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Spirer Z,Holtzman M,Melamed I,Shalit I

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Faecal impaction is frequently observed in children with chronic constipation. The term megarectum is often used to describe this finding. AIM:To evaluate rectal functioning and rectal measures in constipated children with a filled rectum, in order to define the terms faecal impaction, enlarged rectum, and ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： van der Plas RN,Benninga MA,Staalman CR,Akkermans LM,Redekop WK,Taminiau JA,Buller HA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess differences across educational outcomes in survivors of childhood cancer (CCS) compared with peers. DESIGN:Systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SELECTION:Medline, EMBASE, ERIC, CINAHL and PsycInfo from inception to 1st August 2018. Any peer reviewed,...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Saatci D,Thomas A,Botting B,Sutcliffe AG

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four preterm infants of very low birthweight (less than 1500 g) developed signs of copper deficiency between age 8 and 10 weeks. All had required prolonged ventilatory support, parenteral nutrition, and nasojejunal feeding. The clinical features, which included osteoporosis, oedema, anaemia, neutropenia, and late apno...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sutton AM,Harvie A,Cockburn F,Farquharson J,Logan RW

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Risk assessment for venous thromboembolism (VTE) and thromboprophylaxis in those with risk factors is established in adult practice. Evidence to support efficacy and safety of this approach in adolescents is lacking. We aimed to describe thrombotic risk factors and to determine the proportion of potentially p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Biss T,Alikhan R,Payne J,Alamelu J,Williams M,Richards M,Mathias M,Tunstall O,Chalmers E

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in children is a controversial diagnosis with unclear aetiology, ill defined but likely increasing incidence, and debatable clinical management options. However these children experience real and considerable suffering. Appropriate research in this clinical population is sparse...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Patel MX,Smith DG,Chalder T,Wessely S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the accuracy of the interpretation of the chest film in delineating localised abnormalities of ventilation and perfusion, as well as the overall severity of airways obstruction, exercise tolerance, and clinical condition in children with cystic fibrosis. Radiographic findings in various regions of...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Coates AL,Boyce P,Shaw DG,Godfrey S,Mearns M

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00