Plethysmographic validation of near infrared spectroscopic monitoring of cerebral blood volume.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterise fetal brain growth in children with specific language impairment (SLI). DESIGN:A nested case-control study. SETTING:Perth, Western Australia. PARTICIPANTS:Thirty children meeting criteria for SLI at age 10 years were individually matched with a typically developing comparison child on sex, ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Whitehouse AJ,Zubrick SR,Blair E,Newnham JP,Hickey M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adrenal glands of 41 fresh stillbirths were studied and a 'stress response' pattern could be seen in 28. In these glands the stress response was characterised by compact cell change, lipid depletion, excess pyroninophilia, and dilatation of the very prominent granular endoplasmic reticulum. Scattered areas of cyto...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Sa DJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:The British Committee for Standards in Haematology currently recommends concomitant splenectomy in children with mild hereditary spherocytosis (HS) undergoing cholecystectomy for symptomatic gallstones. However, splenectomy is associated with a risk of life-threatening infection, particularly in young ch...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Alizai NK,Richards EM,Stringer MD

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a screening programme of 10000 pregnant women by the Guthrie test, a previously unrecognised phenylketonuric woman was detected. A low phenylalanine diet introduced from the 16th week of gestation failed to prevent fetal abnormality and mental retardation. Maternal phenylketonuria requires earlier diagnosis tha...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Scott TM,Fyfe WM,Hart DM

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of childhood atopic eczema on families and assess the personal financial cost of its management. DESIGN:Cross sectional survey. SETTING:Paediatric dermatology and paediatric diabetology outpatient clinics. PATIENTS:Parents of 48 randomly selected children with atopic eczema and 46 wi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Su JC,Kemp AS,Varigos GA,Nolan TM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The improvement in audiological testing of children post-meningitis with one retrospective and two prospective audit cycles, is described. Direct referral by telephone prior to discharge and liaison with public health colleagues resulted in an increased assessment from 50% to 99% and 89% in successive audits. The prop...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wilson C,Roberts A,Stephens D

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was made of 30 children with Leber's amaurosis (congenital retinal blindness). 24 presented with severe visual impairment, typical ophalmological findings, and absent electroretinograms. 6 other children, though presenting with marked visual loss and absent electroetinograms were later shown to b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Vaizey MJ,Sanders MD,Wybar KC,Wilson J

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Mental retardation" is a modern term for an age old problem. The descriptions of paediatric cases contained within the works of Thomas Willis (1621-75) have been increasingly recognised for their insight into seventeenth century child health practices. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Williams AN

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of thyroid disease in 134 children, adolescents, and young adults with diabetes mellitus beginning in childhood is described. Clustering of a family history of thyroid disease and the presence of thyrogastric antibodies in some patients supports the concept of familial autoimmunity. In 4 children a diag...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Court S,Parkin JM

更新日期：1982-08-01 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：:The incidence of transient hypogammaglobulinaemia of infancy (THI) detected in a major paediatric centre over a 10 year period was examined. A total of 2468 subjects less than 2 years of age had an IgG measurement taken between July 1979 and March 1990. Subjects with known immunodeficiencies were excluded. Fifteen pat...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Walker AM,Kemp AS,Hill DJ,Shelton MJ

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:24 Hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) was performed to provide data on the normal daily blood pressure of healthy schoolchildren and on patients with hypertension. The subjects studied were 123 healthy schoolchildren with a mean (SD) age of 12.5 (1.6) years (range 9.5-14.5 years), 24 children with border...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reusz GS,Hóbor M,Tulassay T,Sallay P,Miltényi M

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a cohort of 14 children with identical cardiac xenografts, two boys developed acute myeloid leukaemia 11 and 16 months respectively after the operation. A dedicated working group designed a scheme intending to take care of all aspects of the situation. This article focuses on preferred strategies towards patients, ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ruud E,Thaulow E,Früh A,Lindberg H,Lie SO

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eating habits and attitudes concerning body shape and weight among 26 mothers of children with non-organic failure to thrive (the index group) were studied using the eating disorder examination. They were compared with equivalent data on 26 individually matched women who participated in a large community survey. T...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McCann JB,Stein A,Fairburn CG,Dunger DB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoglycaemia has long been recognised as a feature of the failure of metabolic adaptation in infants who are small for gestational age (SGA). This study examined the process of metabolic adaptation by measuring, longitudinally, the concentrations of metabolic fuels and substrates in 33 SGA infants in the first postna...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hawdon JM,Ward Platt MP

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one babies of 34-41 weeks' gestational age with birth asphyxia (5 minute Apgar score less than or equal to 5 or umbilical artery pH less than or equal to 7.2) were studied during the first two days of life to find out whether the urinary excretion of tubular markers of renal function is of value in the early di...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Roberts DS,Haycock GB,Dalton RN,Turner C,Tomlinson P,Stimmler L,Scopes JW

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:The cases are described of eight children, five of them girls, who had epilepsy with myoclonic absences. The mean age of onset was 4.9 years. Brief episodes of loss of awareness with bilateral clonic jerking of the upper limbs were associated with rhythmic 3 cycles/second spike-wave discharges on electroencephalogram....

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Manonmani V,Wallace SJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To pilot a novel approach to providing pharmaceutical care to paediatric inpatients using structured referral and assessment tools. Using standardised referral criteria to ensure patients are assessed by appropriately skilled pharmacists. METHOD:Three wards of varying acuity and specialism were selected in a tert...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mott A,Kafka S,Sutherland A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To simultaneously record tracheal and oesophageal pH in mechanically ventilated children to determine: (1) the feasibility and safety of the method; (2) the incidence of gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) and pulmonary contamination; and (3) their associated risk factors. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:Paed...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hue V,Leclerc F,Gottrand F,Martinot A,Crunelle V,Riou Y,Deschildre A,Fourier C,Turck D

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The atherogenic risk factor profile in obese subjects is characterised by hypertension, reduced high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, increased low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and triglycerides, and insulin resistance. AIMS:To examine the amount of weight reduction required to improve the at...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reinehr T,Andler W

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neonate developed complete thrombosis of the abdominal aorta after catheterisation of the umbilical artery. This was successfully treated with an intravenous infusion of streptokinase. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kirk CR,Bhrolchain CN,Qureshi SA

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：:Preductal and postductal oxygen saturation were compared in 20 ventilated preterm infants with hyaline membrane disease to establish the frequency of right to left shunting and to assess the accuracy of postductus arteriosus blood gas sampling. One hundred and thirty eight comparisons were made and the frequency of ri...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Macdonald PD,Yu VY

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:There are few standardised questionnaires for the assessment of respiratory symptoms in preschool children. We have developed and tested the short-term repeatability of a postal questionnaire on respiratory symptoms for 1-year-old children. METHODS:A newly developed postal questionnaire for the ass...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Strippoli MP,Silverman M,Michel G,Kuehni CE

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal D-fructose absorption in 31 children was investigated using measurements of breath hydrogen. Twenty five children had no abdominal symptoms and six had functional bowel disorders. After ingestion of fructose (2 g/kg bodyweight), 22 children (71%) showed a breath hydrogen increase of more than 10 ppm over ba...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kneepkens CM,Vonk RJ,Fernandes J

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 25 year period, 31 asthmatic children received artificial ventilation for acute asthma at Alder Hey Children's Hospital on 48 occasions. Altogether 47 episodes occurred from 1971-89, with no decline in the number of episodes per year (mean 2.5) over this period. Eight children died during intermittent positive ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Seddon PC,Heaf DP

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with chronic diarrhoea since birth responded to the prostaglandin synthetase inhibitors aspirin and indomethacin. During a period without treatment, raised levels of prostaglandins F2alpha and E2 were observed. No source for these raised prostaglandins was shown, and it is suggested that she may have an inborn...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dodge JA,Hamdi I,Walker S

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of 105 children with urinary tract infection showed an increasing prevalence of grades II-III vesicoureteric reflux with diminishing age. During infancy reflux was almost always severe, and affected boys as often as girls. Radiologically scarred kidneys were drained by refluxing ureters in 98% of cases. The p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shah KJ,Robins DG,White RH

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00