Managing obesity in secondary care: a personal practice.

abstract：:An infant with severe hypertension who had a nephroblastoma which was secreting active renin is described. Nephroblastoma must be included in the differential diagnosis of hypertension associated with increased renin concentrations, even in the absence of an abdominal mass. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Khan AB,Carachi R,Leckie BJ,Lindop GB

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six neonates with aneurysms of the vein of Galen are described: five were associated with an intracerebral arteriovenous fistula and presented with heart failure in the neonatal period; one had hydrocephalus at birth. Two infants died from intractable cardiac failure within 48 hours of age and two from progressive hyd...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Donnabhain D,Duff DF

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：:Real time ultrasonography of the pelvic organs was performed on 114 normal premenarcheal girls aged between 2 years and 13 years 11 months. Values were obtained for total uterine length, anteroposterior diameters of the corpus and cervix, corpus/cervix ratio, and uterine and ovarian volumes and the resultant data were...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Salardi S,Orsini LF,Cacciari E,Bovicelli L,Tassoni P,Reggiani A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intravenous glucagon test was performed in 8 children with familial constitutional short stature who were also lean. These children were randomly selected from a larger group of children with the same clinical manifestation and who had been shown to have a low insulin response to an oral glucose tolerance test and ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Karp M,Laron Z,Doron M

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Varicella universal vaccination (UV) has been implemented in many countries for several years. Nevertheless, varicella UV remains debated in Europe and few data are available on the real burden of infection. We assessed the burden of varicella in Belgium through analysis of hospitalised cases during a 1-year...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Blumental S,Sabbe M,Lepage P,Belgian Group for Varicella.

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating erythroid progenitors (BFU-E) in five anaemic preterm infants (haemoglobin less than 100 g/l) were about 2 and 4.4 times as abundant as in 10 preterm infants who were not anaemic and five healthy adults, respectively, and were significantly more responsive to low concentrations of recombinant human erythro...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Emmerson AJ,Westwood NB,Rackham RA,Stern CM,Pearson TC

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotising enterocolitis occurred in 3 infants after angiography at cardiac catheterisation. It is suggested that hypertonic contrast medium might have been responsible and that this complication could be avoided by the use of nonionic contrast media. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cooke RW,Meradji M,de Villeneuve VH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To document gastroenteritis hospitalisations of the 1995-96 cohort of infants born in Western Australia to mid-2002, and to assess factors associated with their hospitalisations and readmissions. METHODS:Retrospective analysis of the State's hospitalisation data, Midwives' Notification of Births data, the Austral...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gracey M,Lee AH,Yau KK

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To determine long-term seroprotection after serogroup C meningococcal (MenC) vaccination at the age of 9-12 years, with or without booster vaccination at the age of 13-15 years. DESIGN:Observational cohort study; follow-on from randomised study. SETTING:Participants were recruited from English secondary sc...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Whalley PC,Snape MD,Plested E,Thompson B,Nuthall E,Omar O,Borrow R,Pollard AJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma amino acids were measured in 35 preterm infants, of whom 11 weighed less than 1000 g and 24 weighed between 1000 g and 1500 g at the time of sampling. Repeat samples were obtained in 18 at least seven days later. Seventeen infants were fed with preterm formula milk and 18 with expressed maternal breast milk at ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ventura V,Brooke OG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty jaundiced neonates with diarrhoea who were being treated with phototherapy and 30 matched control infants were studied to try and find out the cause of the diarrhoea. Faecal osmolality and electrolyte concentrations were measured, which gave clear evidence that the diarrhoea arose from intestinal secretion. Rec...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： De Curtis M,Guandalini S,Fasano A,Saitta F,Ciccimarra F

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cyclosporine A (CsA) has been widely used in children with steroid dependent and steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome (NS) because of its efficacy in relieving these patients from systemic side effects of steroids. However, its long term use is controversial, since chronic CsA induced nephropathy (CsAN) may ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fujinaga S,Kaneko K,Muto T,Ohtomo Y,Murakami H,Yamashiro Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family histories relating to asthma and wheezy bronchitis were examined in 77 asthmatic, 78 wheezy bronchitic, and 87 control children, aged between 1 and 12 years. The percentage of children with at least one asthmatic relative was significantly greater in the asthmatic and wheezy bronchitic probands than in the ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sibbald B,Horn ME,Gregg I

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the Glasgow Register of Congenital Malformations were used to investigate the epidemiology of congenital facial clefts over the period 1974-85. Facial clefts were registered in 247 infants representing a prevalence of 1.56 per 1000 total births. Cleft palate was more common than cleft lip, with cleft lip and...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Womersley J,Stone DH

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the accuracy of morphine infusions prepared for neonates in relation to the label strength and to identify the differences in deviation between infusions made in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and those dispensed ready-to-use from pharmacy. METHODS:Unused portions of morphine solution for...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Aguado-Lorenzo V,Weeks K,Tunstell P,Turnock K,Watts T,Arenas-Lopez S

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：RATIONALE:Accurate weight measurements are essential for both growth monitoring and drug dose calculations in children. Weight can be accurately measured using calibrated scales in resource-rich settings; however, reliable scales are often not available in resource-poor regions or emergency situations. Current age and/...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Whitfield KC,Wozniak R,Pradinuk M,Karakochuk CD,Anabwani G,Daly Z,MacLeod SM,Larson CP,Green TJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate socioeconomic inequalities in the risk of congenital anomalies, focusing on risk of specific anomaly subgroups. METHODS:A total of 858 cases of congenital anomaly and 1764 non-malformed control births were collected between 1986 and 1993 from four UK congenital malformation registers, for the purpo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Vrijheid M,Dolk H,Stone D,Abramsky L,Alberman E,Scott JE

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum antitoxoplasma titres were determined simultaneously by the direct agglutination and the indirect immunofluorescent tests in 52 children aged 2 to 16 years having chronic lymph node enlargement, mainly cervical. Direct agglutination titres were raised (64 to 4096) in 22 children (42%), but rarely in the control ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thomaidis T,Anastassea-Vlachou K,Mandalenaki-Lambrou C,Theodoridis C,Vrahnou E

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of physical housing quality on childhood asthma expression, especially the effect of exposure to moulds, allergens, and pollutants, is well documented. However, attempts to explain increasing rates and severity of childhood asthma solely through physical environmental factors have been unsuccessful, and ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sandel M,Wright RJ

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To review the precipitating events, clinical features, treatment, and outcome of macrophage activation syndrome (MAS). METHODS:Retrospective review of cases of MAS from a prospectively collected database of children with rheumatic diseases from 1980 to 2000. RESULTS:Nine patients (eight girls) were considered to...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sawhney S,Woo P,Murray KJ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To estimate the minimum incidence of congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) and severe microcephaly in Canada and describe key clinical, epidemiological, aetiological and outcome features of these conditions. METHODS:Two separate national surveillance studies were conducted on CZS and severe microcephaly using the wel...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morris SK,Farrar DS,Miller SP,Ofner M,Bitnun A,Nelson CRM,Shevell M,Moore AM,Tataryn J,Evans JA,Zipursky AR,Moore Hepburn C

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:19 young children (less than 5 years old) have received 31 renal transplants from 4 live relatives and 27 cadaver donors. The 2-year allograft survival rate for the patients receiving their 1st allograft from the 4 live donors was 75 +/- 22% while for the patients receiving their 1st allograft from 15 cadaver donors w...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rizzoni G,Malekzadeh MH,Pennisi AJ,Ettenger RB,Uittenbogaart CH,Fine RN

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two girls (a 5 year old and a 21 month old) experiencing mononucleosis syndrome with coincidental human herpesvirus (HHV)-7 and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections are described. One patient had primary HHV-7 infection and reactivated EBV infection. The other had primary HHV-7 and EBV infections. These cases indicated...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chiu HH,Lee CY,Lee PI,Lin KH,Huang LM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Asians have a smaller muscle mass and a larger fat mass at the same body mass index (BMI) than most other ethnic groups. Due to a resulting higher cardiometabolic risk, the BMI cut-offs for overweight and obesity were lowered for adults. For Asian children universal criteria apply. The objectives of this stu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Wilde JA,Zandbergen-Harlaar S,van Buuren S,Middelkoop BJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine if there had been changes in the size of the UK paediatric workforce and working patterns between 1999 and 2013. DESIGN:Analysis of prospectively collected datasets. SETTING:UK consultant paediatricians. INTERVENTIONS:Data from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health's workforce cen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McColgan M,Winch R,Clark SJ,Ewing C,Modi N,Greenough A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linkage of bacterial capsular polysaccharides to proteins to create conjugate vaccines has had a dramatic impact on the health of children. Although unconjugated polysaccharides are poorly immunogenic in infants and some older children and adults, their covalent coupling with proteins stimulates T cell dependent antig...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Baker CJ,Edwards MS

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis rarely presents in the neonatal period. Though treatable, it may be fatal despite modern treatment. The diagnosis of congenital tuberculosis should be considered in any neonate with pneumonia that fails to respond to conventional treatment, particularly in a child from an ethnic or socioeconomic environme...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bate TW,Sinclair RE,Robinson MJ

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00