The implications of the David Glass case for future clinical practice in the UK.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess height and body mass index standard deviation scores up to 20 years after treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). SUBJECTS AND METHODS:Height and body mass index standard deviation scores were measured in 33 patients (14 boys and 19 girls) with childhood ALL at diagnosis, after the end o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Birkebaek NH,Clausen N

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case is reported of an infant with hyperammonaemia secondary to severe distal renal tubular acidosis. A clinical association between increased concentrations of ammonia in serum and renal tubular acidosis has not previously been described. In response to acidosis the infant's kidneys presumably increased ammonia s...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Miller SG,Schwartz GJ

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe common patterns of bath water scald injuries in children, to examine differences between accidental and non-accidental bath water scalds in children, and to examine potential for prevention. DESIGN:A two year six month retrospective analysis of admissions to a specialist burns unit. SETTING:The...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Yeoh C,Nixon JW,Dickson W,Kemp A,Sibert JR

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore the variation in hospital admission rates and duration of inpatient stay across England. METHODS:Hospital Episode Statistics were used to identify all children aged below 2 years who were discharged from hospital with a primary code of bronchiolitis in England, between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2010; ra...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cheung CR,Smith H,Thurland K,Duncan H,Semple MG

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine whether the British 1990 growth charts are valid for cross sectional and longitudinal use in primary school children. METHODS:A total of 694 children aged 7-10 years from 10 Leeds primary schools were weighed and measured annually over three years by an expert auxologist. SD scores were calculated us...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rudolf MC,Cole TJ,Krom AJ,Sahota P,Walker J

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are few data on the optimal micronutrient composition of paediatric enteral feeds. The recent European Directive on Foods for Special Medical Purposes (1999/21/EC) did not distinguish between the composition of adult and paediatric feeds. AIMS:To evaluate, in an open, observational study, the long ter...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Johnson TE,Janes SJ,MacDonald A,Elia M,Booth IW

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Maternal transmission of hepatitis B virus infection in relation to the hepatitis B e antigen/antibody system and serum hepatitis B virus-DNA were evaluated. Results indicate that hepatitis B virus-DNA analysis can identify hepatitis B serum antigen positive mothers who may transmit infection to their offspring. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： De Virgiliis S,Frau F,Sanna G,Turco MP,Figus AL,Cornacchia G,Cao A

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:There is little high quality evidence on which to base the management of bone and joint infections in children. This pragmatic practice note aims to provide a consensus framework of best current practice prior to the availability of data from large national randomised controlled trials. For straightforward infection i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Faust SN,Clark J,Pallett A,Clarke NM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease is a rare form of primary pulmonary hypertension of unknown aetiology. Four cases were diagnosed in young patients. The diagnosis was suspected on the basis of clinical, radiological, echocardiographic, and catheter evidence and confirmed by taking a lung biopsy sample. In all patients...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Justo RN,Dare AJ,Whight CM,Radford DJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many children admitted to hospital can stay for 24 hours or less. Short stay facilities offer such children rapid stabilisation and early discharge with considerable financial saving. A 12 month study was completed in which data were collected from the children's emergency annex (CEA) at Westmead Hospital in Sydney's ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Browne GJ,Penna A

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：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：AIMS:(1) To determine the pattern of respiratory impairment in children with thalassaemia major (TM); (2) to assess the relation between the degree of respiratory impairment and total body iron content. METHODS:Twenty nine TM patients were recruited. All underwent physical examination, standardised pulmonary function ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Li AM,Chan D,Li CK,Wong E,Chan YL,Fok TF

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standing height, sitting height, armspan, subischial leg length, head circumference, and growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) axis were determined in 86 patients with osteogenesis imperfecta. The aim of this study was to determine standing height and body proportions and their variability among osteogen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lund AM,Müller J,Skovby F

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intensive care patients are susceptible to developing painful corneal epithelial deficits. Provision of eye care to prevent deficits was limited in our paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) population. INTERVENTIONS:A new eye care bundle was introduced, comprising a guideline for eye care, the addition of e...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McCall K,Hussin HM,Gregory ME,Dutton G,Richardson J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal sodium handling was studied in 23 children at three different stages of the minimal change nephrotic syndrome--the oedema forming state, proteinuric steady state, and remission. Clearances of inulin and para-aminohippuric acid and urinary sodium excretion were determined basally, after intravenous infusion of is...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bohlin AB,Berg U

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a prospective study in which we investigated why children fail to get vaccinated against whooping cough, including an assessment of the attitudes of parents and professionals and the impact of different views of the contraindications. There was considerable disagreement among the professionals on the inter...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Stevens D,Baker R,Hands S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the availability and source of guidelines for common infections in European paediatric hospitals and determine their content and characteristics. DESIGN:Participating hospitals completed an online questionnaire on the availability and characteristics of antibiotic prescribing guidelines and on empi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Spyridis N,Syridou G,Goossens H,Versporten A,Kopsidas J,Kourlaba G,Bielicki J,Drapier N,Zaoutis T,Tsolia M,Sharland M,ARPEC Project Group Members.

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotising pneumonia in young, previously healthy patients due to Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL) producing Staphylococcus aureus has been increasingly recognised. PVL pneumonia is often associated with influenza co-infection and high mortality. This case report describes the successful management of the first docu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Obando I,Valderrabanos ES,Millan JA,Neth OW

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy three preterm infants weighing less than 1500 g or less than 32 weeks' gestation, or both, were allocated randomly to treatment (fresh frozen plasma 10 ml/kg on admission and at 24 hours of age) or control groups. Fifteen (41%) out of 37 control patients sustained intraventricular haemorrhage compared with fiv...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Beverley DW,Pitts-Tucker TJ,Congdon PJ,Arthur RJ,Tate G

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our current understanding regarding the aetiology of infantile acute liver failure largely derives from studies conducted by regional liver units. This may introduce selection bias and therefore not provide a true reflection of the wider population. METHODS:Every coagulation screen with a prothrombin time ≥...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wands D,Tayler R,Kelly D,Pinto F,Simpson JH,Hansen R

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant proportion of children with anorectal malformations have long term problems with faecal continence. The psychological consequences of this chronic disability was assessed in 160 children and adolescents. The prevalence of clinically significant emotional problems among the sample overall, as assessed by ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ludman L,Spitz L,Kiely EM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 121 infants entered a cohort serological study of primary infections with herpes-viruses. All of them had seven samples of blood available: the first sample was taken soon after birth, the other six were taken at 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, and 14 months of age. One sample of maternal blood was collected immediately af...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Huang LM,Lee CY,Chang MH,Wang JD,Hsu CY

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral staghorn renal calculi in a 7-year-old girl with cystinuria were dissolved over a period of 6 months, using a high fluid intake, urinary alkalinisation, and D-penicillamine. Even in children with extensive cystine urolithiasis, medical management may avert the need for surgery. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Van Dugteren GR,Wiggelinkhuizen J

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12 year old Asian girl with a four year history of poorly controlled insulin dependent diabetes mellitus developed overt diabetic nephropathy. There were no clinical features of Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome. Screening for microalbuminuria would have identified incipient diabetic nephropathy and highlighted the importa...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Francis J,Rose SJ,Raafat F,Milford DV

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the associations between albuminuria, metabolic control, glomerular filtration, blood pressure, and platelet function in children with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. The geometric mean (95% tolerance levels) albumin excretion (expressed as the geometric mean albumin to creatinine ratio on two ove...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gibb DM,Dunger D,Levin M,Shah V,Smith C,Barratt TM

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical, radiological, and genetic features are described in 3 patients with hypochondroplasia. Early recognition of this disorder is possible from the abnormal body proportions with short limbs and lumbar lordosis without facial stigmata of achondroplasia. Radiological confirmation is possible provided a full skelet...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Glasgow JF,Nevin NC,Thomas PS

更新日期：1978-11-01 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