The feasibility and acceptability of collecting oral fluid from healthy children for anti-HCV testing.

abstract：:Increased emphasis on strict glycaemic control of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in young patients may be expected to cause increases in rates of significant hypoglycaemia. To evaluate whether this is the case for a large population based sample of IDDM children and adolescents rates of severe (coma, convu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Davis EA,Keating B,Byrne GC,Russell M,Jones TW

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To see if perineal sensation in infants with open spina bifida is associated with a better long-term outcome, particularly in terms of survival, renal-related deaths and incontinence. METHODS:We conducted a prospective cohort study on a complete cohort of 117 consecutive patients with open spina bifida, who...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Oakeshott P,Hunt GM,Whitaker RH,Kerry S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pressure (BP) values and the phenomenon of tracking were evaluated in a group of 481 schoolchildren over a nine year period starting at age 6 years. BP values were obtained yearly by taking the mean of two measurements at one visit, measurements were taken by only two observers during the study. For both systoli...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sánchez-Bayle M,Muñoz-Fernández MT,González-Requejo A

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：AIMS:To compare physiological and autonomic responses to acute hypoglycaemia in diabetic children in pre-, mid-, and post-pubertal stages of development. METHODS:Twenty seven children (8 pre-pubertal, 7 mid-pubertal, 12 post-pubertal) with type 1 diabetes were studied. Hypoglycaemia was induced by insulin infusion unt...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ross LA,Warren RE,Kelnar CJ,Frier BM

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:In a five year period, 39 children (29 boys, 10 girls) aged 2 months to 13 years (mean 7.8 years) were studied who had suffered a major head injury (29 road traffic accidents, six falls, and four non-accidental injury). The injury had been assessed clinically and by cranial computed tomography or cranial ultrasound (i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elias-Jones AC,Punt JA,Turnbull AE,Jaspan T

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the value of a detailed family history for the assessment of the risk of recurrence of febrile seizures, 115 children who visited the emergency room of an academic children's hospital were studied prospectively. The recurrence risk of febrile seizures was analysed in relation to the child's family history...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： van Esch A,Steyerberg EW,Berger MY,Offringa M,Derksen-Lubsen G,Habbema JD

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：: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：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：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：OBJECTIVE:There is a body of published research on the effectiveness of home visiting for the prevention of child maltreatment, but little in the peer reviewed literature on cost-effectiveness or value to society. The authors sought to determine the cost-effectiveness of alternative home visiting programmes to inform p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dalziel K,Segal L

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years photopheresis, an extracorporeal form of photochemotherapy using psoralen and ultraviolet A irradiation of leucocytes, has been claimed to be an effective form of immunomodulation. AIM:To evaluate its effect in type 1 diabetes we performed a double blind, controlled study using placebo table...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ludvigsson J,Samuelsson U,Ernerudh J,Johansson C,Stenhammar L,Berlin G

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological study of disease in a geographically identified population of 250 children is reported. 22% had not seen their general practitioner (GP) at all in the past year, while 20% had seen him four times or more. The vast majority of these visits were because of an infective illness; and developmental and b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bax M,Hart H

更新日期：1976-11-01 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:To describe the epidemiology of pedestrian road traffic injury in Lima and to identify associated child-level, family-level, and school travel-related variables. DESIGN:Case-control study. SETTING:The Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño, the largest paediatric hospital in the city. PARTICIPANTS:Cases were...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pernica JM,LeBlanc JC,Soto-Castellares G,Donroe J,Carhuancho-Meza BA,Rainham DG,Gilman RH

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:The recent famine in Ethiopia has resulted in the dislocation of millions of people. Many of these individuals have moved to refugee camps in Sudan or to feeding centres within Ethiopia. A total of 1325 children up to the age of 15 years were examined by an ophthalmologist in January 1985 at several sites in these two...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pizzarello LD

更新日期：1986-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To review the work of one tertiary paediatric palliative care service in facilitating planned withdrawal of ventilatory support outside the intensive care setting, with the purpose of developing local guidance for practice. METHODS:Retrospective 10-year (2003-2012) case note review of intensive care patients...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Laddie J,Craig F,Brierley J,Kelly P,Bluebond-Langner M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lungs of 482 liveborn infants were examined at necropsy for the presence of intravascular lipid. Forty one patients had received parenteral feeding (including lipid emulsion in 30), and 441 had died before starting feeds or had received enteral feeds alone. Tissue was processed into wax and then stained with Sudan...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Puntis JW,Rushton DI

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children with Reye's syndrome are described. One child died, the second had mild and transient illness, and the third had recurrent episodes. In all 3 children a muscle biopsy showed pronounced infiltration of the myofibres with fat microdroplets as shown by the oil red O stain and by electron microscopical exam...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shapira Y,Deckelbaum R,Statter M,Tennenbaum A,Aker M,Yarom R

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES) is a rare but potentially limb threatening anatomical anomaly occurring predominantly in young adults. We report a case of a 14 year old boy who presented with limb threatening ischaemia requiring urgent surgery. The pathology, presentation, and management are discussed. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chan CW,Wilson JI,Myatt A,Roberts PN

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There was much speculation about the potential impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on established principles of health care practice. Now the statute has been "bedded in", predictions that existing good practice would not fall foul of the legislation provided it was demonstrable, have proved to be broadly accurate. Th...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hagger LE

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH) and hyaline membrane disease (HMD) was studied in singletons that came to necropsy at Hammersmith Hospital over the years 1966-73. The incidence of IVH in singleton live births was 3-22/1000 and of HMD 4-44/1000. Although the high figures were partily due to the ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wigglesworth JS,Keith IH,Girling DJ,Slade SA

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of indomethacin treatment of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) on blood pressure was studied in 24 preterm infants. PDA was diagnosed clinically and confirmed by echocardiography; the effect of treatment was monitored echocardiographically. Hourly intra-arterial recordings of systolic, diastolic, and mean bloo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Evans N,Iyer P

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：:A gross T cell lymphocytosis developed in an otherwise healthy 5 year old girl and has persisted for nearly 3 years. It is associated with neutropenia and seems to be typical of a rare adult disorder that may be a type of T cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Murray JA,Lilleyman JS

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the value and safety of fasts for investigating hypoglycaemia or suspected metabolic disease. STUDY DESIGN:Review of all diagnostic fasts performed over a 2.5 year period. SETTING:The neonatal intensive care unit and programmed investigation unit at a tertiary referral centre for endocrinology and metab...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morris AA,Thekekara A,Wilks Z,Clayton PT,Leonard JV,Aynsley-Green A

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00