How should paediatric examiners be trained?

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Following recent reports of increased numbers of adolescents being diagnosed with the adult or type 2 form of diabetes we aimed to describe the prevalence of both type 2 and other forms of diabetes in an urban population of children and young people in northern England. METHODS:A hospital based cro...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Feltbower RG,McKinney PA,Campbell FM,Stephenson CR,Bodansky HJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of a protein restricted diet on renal function and growth of children with chronic renal failure. In a multicentre prospective study 56 children (aged 2-18 years) with chronic renal failure were randomly assigned to the protein restricted (0.8-1.1 g/kg/day) or the con...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kist-van Holthe tot Echten JE,Nauta J,Hop WC,de Jong MC,Reitsma-Bierens WC,Ploos van Amstel SL,van Acker KJ,Noordzij CM,Wolff ED

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long term results of treatment of inhalation of foreign bodies in a district children's hospital and in a tertiary referral centre were reviewed by clinical assessment, chest radiography, and standard four view 81mKr ventilation/99mTc macroaggregated albumin perfusion imaging (V/Q lung scan). The overall incidence...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Davies H,Gordon I,Matthew DJ,Helms P,Kenney IJ,Lutkin JE,Lenney W

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if exploratory factor analysis can identify subtypes comprising recognisable clinical patterns of the presenting signs and symptoms of children with joint hypermobility syndrome (JHS). PATIENTS:Eighty-nine children with JHS aged 6-16 years. METHODS:Twelve tests comprising anthropometric, muscul...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pacey V,Adams RD,Tofts L,Munns CF,Nicholson LL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the outcome of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) in children with renovascular hypertension (RVH) treated at a single centre over 29 years. METHODS:A retrospective study of the medical charts of all children with RVH who underwent PTA between 1984 and 2012. The primary outcome measurem...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kari JA,Roebuck DJ,McLaren CA,Davis M,Dillon MJ,Hamilton G,Shroff R,Marks SD,Tullus K

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability and validity of the North American paediatric appropriateness evaluation protocol (PAEP) for use in paediatric practice in Britain was tested. The protocol was applied to 418 case records of consecutive emergency admissions to three Yorkshire district general hospitals. The PAEP ratings were then compa...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Werneke U,Smith H,Smith IJ,Taylor J,MacFaul R

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis was identified in 37 of 73 consecutive neonates with purulent conjunctivitis, including four delivered by caesarean section with intact membranes. Most (28/37) presented in the first week. Infection was significantly associated with referral from the community. Genital C. trachomatis infection wa...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Barry WC,Teare EL,Uttley AH,Wilson SA,McManus TJ,Lim KS,Gamsu H,Price JF

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital haemolytic anaemia in a 14 year old girl was caused by increased red cell membrane cation permeability. Potassium permeability was unusually sensitive to hydrostatic pressure and treatment with N-ethylmaleimide, factors which activate a specific chloride dependent potassium channel in cell membranes. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gardiner RM,Barnes ND,Ellory JC

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The case fatality rate from meningococcal disease (MD) has remained relatively unchanged in the post antibiotic era, with 20-50% of patients who develop shock still dying. In 1992 a new paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) specialising in MD was opened. Educational information was disseminated to l...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Booy R,Habibi P,Nadel S,de Munter C,Britto J,Morrison A,Levin M,Meningococcal Research Group.

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:Levels of calcium, magnesium, and glucose were measured in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of children with febrile convulsions. Calcium and magnesium levels were within the normal range and the blood: CSF ratios were similar to those of normal subjects. Hyperglycaemia was a frequent finding and was reflected ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rutter N,Smales OR

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe the nature and causes of reported patient safety incidents relating to care in the community for children dependent on long-term ventilation with the further aim of improving safety. METHODS:We undertook an analysis of patient safety incident data relating to long-term ventilation in the community usin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nawaz RF,Page B,Harrop E,Vincent CA

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty four very low birthweight babies (considered high risk for developing necrotising enterocolitis) were given vancomycin orally for 48 hours before introduction of oral feeds; one developed necrotising enterocolitis. One hundred and twenty very low birthweight babies (not considered such high risk) were fed witho...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ng PC,Dear PR,Thomas DF

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A longitudinal evaluation was carried out of the clinical, infective, and immunological progress of 34 children (who were aged 6 to 68 months--mean 25 months at the time of writing) born to 31 mothers infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), over a mean observation period of 13.4 months. Clinical symptoms, no...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nadal D,Hunziker UA,Schüpbach J,Wetzel JC,Tomasik Z,Jendis JB,Fanconi A,Seger RA

更新日期：1989-05-01 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：AIM:To test the hypothesis that overall intelligence quotient (IQ) is decreased in patients with Aarskog syndrome. METHODS:21 boys under 17 years of age with a confirmed clinical diagnosis of Aarskog syndrome were assessed using the Griffiths mental development scales and the British ability scales. RESULTS:IQ ranged...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Logie LJ,Porteous ME

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess sickle cell pain and coping in children and to examine the relation between these factors and the utilisation of health services. METHODS:Cross sectional study involving 67 children with sickle cell disease attending three London hospitals. Interviews and questionnaires involved measures of pain, health...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Anie KA,Steptoe A,Ball S,Dick M,Smalling BM

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evidence base to guide the pharmacological management of tone and abnormal movements in cerebral palsy (CP) is limited, as is an understanding of routine clinical practice in the UK. We aimed to establish details of motor phenotype and current pharmacological management of a representative cohort across ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lumsden DE,Crowe B,Basu A,Amin S,Devlin A,DeAlwis Y,Kumar R,Lodh R,Lundy CT,Mordekar SR,Smith M,Cadwgan J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transport characteristics of the placenta, which favour higher phenylalanine concentrations in the fetus than in the mother, and regression data of head circumference at birth against phenylalanine concentration at conception in maternal phenylketonuria (PKU), suggest that treatment of maternal PKU should ideally ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thompson GN,Francis DE,Kirby DM,Compton R

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a newborn baby, suffering from persistent severe hypoglycaemia with convulsions glucagon deficiency was shown. Treatment with zinc-protamine-glucagon injection twice daily resulted in normal blood glucose levels. Motor development is delayed. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kollee LA,Monnens LA,Cecjka V,Wilms RM

更新日期：1978-05-01 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：:Four child-protection scenarios were sent to 200 named/designated and non-named/non-designated doctors. The respondents judged each scenario as abuse or accident and indicated their degree of certainty. There was a 71% response rate. There were no significant differences in judgement or degrees of certainty of judgeme...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Power S

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The effect of adenoidectomy on nasopharyngeal colonisation of pathogens has not previously been evaluated. The authors studied the effect of adenoidectomy on nasopharyngeal colonisation by bacteria causing otitis media and the effect of adenoidectomy on the development of pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mattila PS,Hammarén-Malmi S,Saxen H,Kaijalainen T,Käyhty H,Tarkkanen J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one children who had been diagnosed as having laryngomalacia by direct laryngoscopy in infancy were reviewed 7 to 12 years later. The natural history of the disease is documented. A wide variation in the time of onset and duration of the stridor was found and there was a high incidence of feeding difficulties. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McSwiney PF,Cavanagh NP,Languth P

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma concentrations of motilin, gastrin, and enteroglucagon were measured in cord blood and during the first 24 days of life before feeding in 45 term and 63 preterm, healthy infants. Levels of these hormones rose steeply after birth, reaching concentrations that were much higher than those in fasting adults. These ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lucas A,Adrian TE,Christofides N,Bloom SR,Aynsley-Green A

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We assessed whether maternal mental health problems increased rates for child injury during the preschool years and mid-childhood, and the extent to which associations could be accounted for by a range of potential explanatory factors. DESIGN:We analysed the UK Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally represent...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hope S,Deighton J,Micali N,Law C

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monthly increments of length, weight gain, and head circumference were recorded from birth to 4 years of age in 52 children with cystic fibrosis. At birth the children showed stunting. Standard deviation (SD) scores at birth for height, weight, and head circumference were -1.24, -0.72, and -1.82 respectively. Over the...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ghosal S,Taylor CJ,Pickering M,McGaw J,Beckles-Willson N,Wales JK

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis GB virus-C (HGBV-C)/hepatitis G virus (HGV) infection was investigated in 106 children with liver disease (54 boys and 52 girls, mean age 7.3 years); 12 with chronic hepatitis C virus infection, 29 with positive hepatitis B surface antigen, nine with idiopathic fulminant hepatic failure, seven with graft dys...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nagata I,Tzampouras N,Chokshi S,Naoumov NV,Cheeseman P,Smith HM,Baker AJ,Williams R,Mieli-Vergani G

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:Lactobin-R is a commercial hyperimmune bovine colostrum with potent anticryptosporidial activity. It was administered to a 4 year old child with AIDS and severe diarrhoea associated with cryptosporidiosis. There was significant clinical improvement in the diarrhoea and permanent elimination of the parasite from the gu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shield J,Melville C,Novelli V,Anderson G,Scheimberg I,Gibb D,Milla P

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00