A low cost, colour coded, hand held spring scale accurately categorises birth weight in low resource settings.

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：:A 14-month-old girl with invasive perineal amoebiasis is reported. There was destruction of the anus, the rectovaginal septum, the pelvic floor, and the perineum. The rapid progress and destructive potential of perineal amoebiasis is noted and the benefits of diagnostic awareness emphasised. Treatment with metronidazo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wynne JM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fulminant endocarditis affecting the mitral valve in an 11-year-old boy was caused by a nontoxogenic strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Horst R,Dyer D,Hallett A

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between ethnicity and health outcomes among fetuses and infants with congenital left heart obstruction (LHO). DESIGN:A retrospective population-based review was conducted of fetuses and infants with LHO including all terminations, stillbirths and live births from 20 weeks' ges...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cloete E,Sadler L,Bloomfield FH,Crengle S,Percival T,Gentles TL

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Encephalitis is an uncommon but potentially devastating neurological syndrome with different aetiologies including direct central nervous system infection with different agents (most commonly viral) and those mediated by the immune system. Whilst there have been several recent publications and guidelines on the manage...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thompson C,Kneen R,Riordan A,Kelly D,Pollard AJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral oedema is the most common cause of mortality and morbidity during the first day of conventional treatment for diabetic ketoacidosis in paediatric patients. It is possible that therapy contributes to its development. Risk factors that predispose to cerebral oedema should lead to an expansion of the intracellul...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Carlotti AP,Bohn D,Halperin ML

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth velocity of head circumference was studied longitudinally in different gestational age groups of 222 appropriate-weight-for-dates (AFD) and 94 small-for-dates (SFD) healthy infants during the first 5 months of life. Term AFD and SFD infants showed a steady slowing of growth rate of head circumference from birth...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fujimura M,Seryu JI

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum concentrations of the phagocytosis-stimulating peptide, tuftsin, were determined by radioimmunoassay in 21 patients with sickle cell disease and in 12 healthy controls. The mean serum tuftsin concentration was significantly lower in patient with haemoglobin SS disease (154.3 +/- 35.1 ng/ml; 308.6 +/- 70.2 nm...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Spirer Z,Weisman Y,Zakuth V,Fridkin M,Bogair N

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although antibiotics are recommended for the primary care management of community-acquired pneumonia, a recent UK study reported that most children admitted to hospital had not received antibiotics. OBJECTIVE:To describe primary care antibiotic use for children subsequently hospitalised with community-acqui...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Grant CC,Harnden A,Mant D,Emery D,Coster G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fetal heart beat, detected by ultrasound, was recorded for five minutes from 934 antenatal women--266 at 30 to 35 weeks' gestation and 718 at 36 to 41 weeks. Episodes of bradycardia < 100/minute ranging from 5-30 seconds' duration occurred in 3 (1.1%) of the former and in 9 (1.3%) of the latter group. Tachycardia ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Southall DP,Richards J,Hardwick RA,Shinebourne EA,Gibbens GL,Thelwall-Jones H,de Swiet M,Johnston PG

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep related arterial oxygen desaturation has been described in clinically stable young adults with cystic fibrosis. The incidence and severity of nocturnal oxygen desaturation in children during infective exacerbations and the changes that occur with treatment were examined. Forty five children with proved cystic fi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Allen MB,Mellon AF,Simmonds EJ,Page RL,Littlewood JM

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The partial androgen insensitivity syndrome occurs in 46,XY subjects with phenotypes ranging from perineoscrotal hypospadias with cryptorchidism and micropenis (mild undervirilisation) to clitoromegaly and partial labial fusion (marked undervirilisation). Within an affected family, wide variation in the degree of geni...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Batch JA,Davies HR,Evans BA,Hughes IA,Patterson MN

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：:We report a child who presented with a progressive neurological disorder associated with hypertension and paroxysms of irritability and sweating in whom an abnormality of catecholamine metabolism or excretion was demonstrated. An elder sister died at the age of 2 1/2 years with similar clinical symptoms but without bl...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Young I,Hosking GP

更新日期：1978-08-01 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：:National trends in the survival of low birthweight infants for the years 1953 to 1979 were examined. While stillbirth and day 1-28 mortality rates improved steadily throughout this period, day 0 mortality did not start to fall until the mid-1960s and then it improved in all birthweight groups. This suggests that speci...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pharoah PO,Alberman ED

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the prevalence of infant crying and maternal soothing techniques in relation to ethnic origin and other sociodemographic variables. DESIGN:A questionnaire survey among mothers of 2-3 month old infants registered at six child health clinics in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. SUBJECTS:A questionna...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： van der Wal MF,van den Boom DC,Pauw-Plomp H,de Jonge GA

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympathetic function was studied in 101 diabetic children and 102 age and sex matched control children, as part of a longitudinal study of the evolution of microvascular disease in the population of diabetic children and adolescents in Avon County. The median (range) age of the diabetic population was 13.5 (6.0-17.2) ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Karavanaki K,Davies AG,Hunt LP,Morgan MH,Baum JD

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：:Premature newborn rabbits, delivered on day 27 of gestation, were treated with tracheal deposition of dry artificial surfactant containing dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine and unsaturated phosphatidylglycerol (7:3), or crude natural surfactant prepared by centrifugation of lung wash from adult rabbits. Before receiving...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morley C,Robertson B,Lachmann B,Nilsson R,Bangham A,Grossmann G,Miller N

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To undertake a systematic review and meta-analysis to establish the effectiveness of handwashing in reducing absence and/or the spread of respiratory tract (RT) and/or gastrointestinal (GI) infection among school-aged children and/or staff in educational settings. DESIGN:Randomised-controlled trials (RCTs). ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Willmott M,Nicholson A,Busse H,MacArthur GJ,Brookes S,Campbell R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between current micturition habits and previous urinary tract infection was analysed among 3553 school entrants aged 7 years by means of a questionnaire. A high incidence of urinary infection, confirmed by urine culture, was found (145 (8.4%) in the 1719 girls and 32 (1.7%) in the 1834 boys). There was...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hellström A,Hanson E,Hansson S,Hjälmås K,Jodal U

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The benefits of achieving a long term event free survival of 60-70% by using increasingly intense treatment regimens must be weighed against the increased risk of treatment toxicity. From 1985 to 1990, 1612 children with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in the UK were treated on MRC UKALL X with intensive...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wheeler K,Chessells JM,Bailey CC,Richards SM

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：:A volumetric Doppler technique was used to measure net ductus arteriosus shunt during the first 48 hours of life in 30 infants of less than 33 weeks' gestation, and in 10 full term infants. In the full term infants a left to right shunt of 62 ml/kg/minute (95% confidence limits 43-82) shortly after birth decreased rap...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Drayton MR,Skidmore R

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortic arch anomalies in infancy often cause intrathoracic airway obstruction. Airway function was assessed as part of the diagnostic evaluation in six symptomatic infants both by plethysmography and using a chest compression technique to obtain partial flow-volume loops. Two infants had normal intrathoracic airway fu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thomson AH,Beardsmore CS,Firmin R,Leanage R,Simpson H

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare the effectiveness of short course (2-4 days) with standard duration oral antibiotic treatment (7-14 days) for urinary tract infection (UTI). METHODS:Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials using a random effects model. Ten trials were eligible, involving 652 children with lower tract UTI recruite...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Michael M,Hodson EM,Craig JC,Martin S,Moyer VA

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：: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：:The concentrations of immunoglobulins (Ig) G.A.M. and E were determined in paired umbilical cord and maternal sera in 50 twin pregnancies. Mean IgG levels were higher in cord than maternal sera and in most cases the cord IgG level related more closely to that of the other twin than to either maternal level or birthwei...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bryan EM,Slavin B,Nicholson E

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00