Intrarater reliability of lower limb sagittal range-of-motion measures in children with spastic diplegia.

abstract：:We report a longitudinal, prospective, multicentre cohort study designed to measure the outcomes of gastrostomy tube feeding in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Fifty-seven children with CP (28 females, 29 males; median age 4y 4mo, range 5mo to 17y 3mo) were assessed before gastrostomy placement, and at 6 and 12 mon...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Sullivan PB,Juszczak E,Bachlet AM,Lambert B,Vernon-Roberts A,Grant HW,Eltumi M,McLean L,Alder N,Thomas AG

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To estimate the prevalence of mental illness in parents of children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:This is a systematic review that follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols in the search for observational studies determining the prevalence of depression, anxiety, an...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Barreto TM,Bento MN,Barreto TM,Jagersbacher JG,Jones NS,Lucena R,Bandeira ID

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case series aimed to characterize the clinical features, management, and outcomes of apnea in infants with trisomy 18. Participants in this study were infants with trisomy 18 who were born alive and admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit in Kyushu University Hospital from 2000 to 2018. Retrospective analysi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Taira R,Inoue H,Sawano T,Fujiyoshi J,Ichimiya Y,Torio M,Sanefuji M,Ochiai M,Sakai Y,Ohga S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of mitochondrial disease is often a challenge because of the extreme heterogeneity of the clinical phenotype and the variety of underlying gene defects. Insight into the range of clinical phenotypes associated with a particular mitochondrial DNA mutation will facilitate better recognition of patients at risk...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Van Karnebeek CD,Waters PJ,Sargent MA,Mezei MM,Wong LJ,Wang J,Stöckler-Ipsiroglu S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of Rett syndrome is currently determined by a series of criteria, the first three of which are concerned with the initial period of normality. Using the Australian Rett Syndrome Database, information about this early period was obtained by questionnaires to paediatricians and families. For girls born bet...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Leonard H,Bower C

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to determine the reliability, validity, and optimal placement of pedometers in children with cerebral palsy (CP) who ambulate without aids. METHOD:Seventeen participants aged 7 to 17 years with CP (eight males, nine females; mean age 12y 4mo; SD 3y 2mo), who could ambulate without aids, w...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Maher C,Kenyon A,McEvoy M,Sprod J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A behavioural modification package incorporating stimulus control, cueing, and rapid-extinction techniques was applied to a group of 15 children with severe learning disability who had chronic sleep disorders. Improvements in their night-settling and night-waking patterns occurred quickly (within a few days) and, in 1...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bramble D

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past decade of research in neuroscience and stroke rehabilitation has demonstrated that the adult brain is capable of recovery through physiological processes (often called 'plasticity'). Some of the recovery is spontaneous and some is a result of experience, including interventions such as physical therapy, which...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Wittenberg GF

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lasting socio-emotional behaviour difficulties are common among children who have suffered brain injuries. A proportion of difficulties may be attributed to impaired cognitive and/or executive skills after injury. A recent and rapidly accruing body of literature indicates that deficits in recognizing and responding to...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Tonks J,Slater A,Frampton I,Wall SE,Yates P,Williams WH

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of the family environment for the development of children with neurodisabilities is undisputed. The objective of this study is to describe how family environment has been measured in research on families of children with neurodisabilities, in order to support researchers and clinicians to select appropr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ketelaar M,Bogossian A,Saini M,Visser-Meily A,Lach L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiating a sudden-onset concomitant squint from a paralytic squint in an ill child can be difficult, but the distinction is important in view of the neurological implications of the latter. Furthermore, the two types may co-exist, and four such cases are described. The causes of sudden-onset squint are discusse...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Watson AP,Fielder AR

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to look at the maturational profile of gait parameters by measuring ground reaction forces during independent walking in children. Fifty-four normal children aged 1 to 5 years were examined. The children walked with eight force transducers under each sole. Gait velocity and step length increa...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Preis S,Klemms A,Müller K

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrathecal baclofen is used in the management of spasticity associated with cerebral palsy (CP). Sudden cessation of intrathecal baclofen may give rise to the potentially life-threatening baclofen withdrawal syndrome. We report three cases in which intravenous diazepam is used effectively in the management of planned...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Cruikshank M,Eunson P

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-nine very-low-birthweight infants out of a population of 923 had cerebral palsy (CP) at an 18-month follow-up. Thirty-nine of these had cranial ultrasound abnormalities in the neonatal period and 30 had normal cranial ultrasounds. The distribution of subtypes of CP differed markedly between the two groups, with ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Wheater M,Rennie JM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneomuscular reflexes were recorded from the first dorsal interosseous muscles of 21 children with spastic cerebral palsy. The reflex responses in children with cerebral palsy were consistent with dysfunction of the pyramidal system, but differed from those seen in adults with central nervous lesions. This provides...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Evans AL,Harrison LM,Stephens JA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feeding abilities in 20 individuals with Rett syndrome aged 1 1/2 to 33 years were investigated by history and clinical assessment during a meal, followed by videofluoroscopy of feeding. All were shown to have reduced movements of the mid and posterior tongue, with premature spillover of food and liquid from the mouth...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Morton RE,Bonas R,Minford J,Kerr A,Ellis RE

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Mutations in the SLC16A2 gene have been implicated in Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (AHDS), an X-linked learning disability* syndrome associated with thyroid function test (TFT) abnormalities. Delayed myelination is a non-specific finding in individuals with learning disability whose genetic basis is often uncertai...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gika AD,Siddiqui A,Hulse AJ,Edward S,Fallon P,McEntagart ME,Jan W,Josifova D,Lerman-Sagie T,Drummond J,Thompson E,Refetoff S,Bönnemann CG,Jungbluth H

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita in an eight-year-old girl was recounted by Thomas of Monmouth in a mid twelfth-century English hagiographic narrative, The Life and Miracles of St William of Norwich. The child had deformities of both hands and both feet at birth, and she developed torticollis and probably ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gordon EC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of spastic cerebral palsy on in vivo gastrocnemius muscle fascicle length is not clear. Similarity of fascicle lengths in children with diplegia and typically developing children, but shortening of fascicle lengths in the paretic legs of children with hemiplegia compared with the non-paretic legs, are both ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mohagheghi AA,Khan T,Meadows TH,Giannikas K,Baltzopoulos V,Maganaris CN

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this cross-sectional study was to provide normative data for motor proficiency (motor performance and contralateral associated movements [CAMs]) in typically developing children between 3 years and 18 years of age using an updated version of the Zurich Neuromotor Assessment (ZNA-2). METHOD:Six-hundred a...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kakebeeke TH,Knaier E,Chaouch A,Caflisch J,Rousson V,Largo RH,Jenni OG

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate presence and severity of social impairments in alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) and determine factors that are associated with social impairments. METHOD:This was a retrospective analysis of 34 consecutive patients with AHC (19 females, 15 males; mean age: 9y 7mo, SD 8y 2mo, range 2y 7mo-40y),...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Uchitel J,Abdelnour E,Boggs A,Prange L,Pratt M,Bonner M,Jasien J,Dawson G,Abrahamsen T,Mikati MA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new cases are reported of a rare syndrome of malformation consisting of occiptal encephalocele, aplasia of the vermis and deformity of the tectum. Less consistent components are aplasia of mammillary bodies, fusion of thalami, anomalies of cerebral gyral patterns, bifid atlas or bifid occipital squame, elevation o...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Friede RL

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgery for spinal fusion for patients with myelomeningocele is accompanied by a high rate of complications. The authors report six cases of sudden intra-operative hemodynamic instability which occurred during anterior spinal fusion; the procedures had to be aborted. All children were successfully resuscitated and fou...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Karol LA,Richards BS,Prejean E,Safavi F

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanidinoacetate methyltransferase (GAMT) deficiency is a disorder of creatine biosynthesis, characterized by early-onset learning disability and epilepsy in most affected children. Severe expressive language delay is a constant feature even in the mildest clinical phenotypes.We report the clinical, biochemical, imagi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： O'Rourke DJ,Ryan S,Salomons G,Jakobs C,Monavari A,King MD

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous opioid dysfunction hypotheses for the development of autism are reviewed, along with clinical empirical studies of opiate antagonists in autism and self-injurious behaviour. There is not yet sufficient evidence to suggest the use of opiate antagonists in the treatment of autism. Further research, particular...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gillberg C

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of intramuscular alcohol in treating cerebral-palsied children has led to reduced spasticity for varying periods of time, although the periods diminish with each subsequent injection. During the period of reduced spasticity there is an opportunity for therapists and orthopaedic surgeons to determine whether co...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Carpenter EB,Seitz DG

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of statistics in medical diagnoses and biomedical research may affect whether an individual may live or die, whether their health is protected or jeopardized. Because society depends on sound statistical practice, all practitioners of statistics, whatever their training or occupation, have social obligations t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rigby AS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To elucidate the relation between motor impairment and other developmental deficits in very preterm-born children without disabling cerebral palsy and term-born comparison children at 5 years of (corrected) age. METHOD:In a prospective cohort study, 165 children (81 very preterm-born and 84 term-born)were assessed...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Van Hus JW,Potharst ES,Jeukens-Visser M,Kok JH,Van Wassenaer-Leemhuis AG

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropometric data were collected on groups of seven-year-old Dunedin (New Zealand) boys, identified as hyperactive-only, aggressive-hyperactive, aggressive-only and non-aggressive/non-hyperactive. Measures taken included stature, weight, skeletal maturity, mid-upper arm circumference, triceps and subscapular fatfold...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： McGee R,Birkbeck J,Silva PA

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored proximal-to-distal components during goal-directed reaching movements in children with mild or moderate hemiplegic cerebral palsy (HCP); [seven females, four males; mean age 8 y 6 mo; SD 27 mo], compared with age-matched, typically developing children (seven females, five males; mean age 8 y 3 mo [...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Domellöf E,Rösblad B,Rönnqvist L

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00