Missed opportunities to vaccinate children admitted to a paediatric tertiary hospital.

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：:The fall in body temperature that occurs in babies soon after birth is influenced by the baby's weight and its environmental conditions. The rate of oxygen consumption 1 1/2 hours after birth was unrelated to body temperature and only slightly raised, indicating a limited thermogenic capacity. A radiant heater effecti...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smales OR,Kime R

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altogether 38 postpubertal children with coeliac disease were rebiopsied. Mucosal abnormality in nine (24%) of them indicated poor adherence to the diet. Gluten challenge with a diet containing a normal amount of gluten was performed in those 29 patients with a normal mucosa. During challenge, rebiopsy was done when r...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mäki M,Lähdeaho ML,Hällström O,Viander M,Visakorpi JK

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There may be insufficient awareness of dopa responsive dystonia (DRD), which has a characteristic diurnal variation of symptoms. Two children are reported in whom the diagnosis of DRD was missed. The first was thought to have hysteria and the second hereditary spastic paraparesis. A full history is vital for the diagn...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Patel K,Roskrow T,Davis JS,Heckmatt JZ

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:Two patients with raised intracranial pressure responding to ventriculoperitoneal shunting are described in whom ultrasound failed to show dilated ventricles. The importance of not equating absence of ventricular dilatation with normal pressure and ventricular dilatation with high pressure is emphasised. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pilling DW,Cudmore RE

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 19 day old infant was successfully resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation. The 12 lead ECG was normal, with a normal QT interval, and remains so over three years follow up. DNA analysis revealed a missense mutation (R1193Q) in the SCN5A gene, previously linked with familial sudden unexpected nocturnal death synd...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Skinner JR,Chung SK,Montgomery D,McCulley CH,Crawford J,French J,Rees MI

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of desamino-D-arginine vasopressin (DDAVP) was investigated in 32 enuretic children in a double-blind clinical study. The 15 children treated with DDAVP showed a significant reduction in the incidence of bed wetting--from 18.7 +/- 6.5 to 6.5 +/- 9.2 wet nights per 30 days. In 6 children bed wetting stoppe...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Aladjem M,Wohl R,Boichis H,Orda S,Lotan D,Freedman S

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A presenting sample of 127 consecutive referrals to a community based enuresis clinic were evaluated after treatment with baseline behavioural recording and the enuresis alarm. Almost one in five became dry after baseline recording only while 81 of 96 (84%) enuretics who used the alarm achieved the initial dryness cri...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Devlin JB,O'Cathain C

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolites of vitamin D were measured in plasma from 83 patients with idiopathic infantile hypercalcaemia syndrome who were mentally handicapped but had normal calcium values at the time of the study. No significant difference was detected in the mean plasma concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D2, 1,25-dihydroxyvitam...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Martin ND,Snodgrass GJ,Cohen RD,Porteous CE,Coldwell RD,Trafford DJ,Makin HL

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether meningococcal C conjugate vaccine (MCCV) caused relapse in children with steroid-responsive nephrotic syndrome. DESIGN:A population-based study was conducted using an active surveillance system, developed to assess adverse events following vaccination, which linked hospital record inf...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Taylor B,Andrews N,Stowe J,Hamidi-Manesh L,Miller E

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven children with precocious puberty were treated with cyproterone acetate and their adrenal function studied. In each child the drug caused significant adrenal hypofunction which was secondary to adrenocorticotrophic hormone suppression. None of these children had clinical evidence of adrenal hypofunction and it is...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Savage DC,Swift PG

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remarkable advances have been made over the past decade in defining the burden of newborn mortality and morbidity and stillbirths, and in identifying interventions to address the major risk factors and causes of deaths. However, progress in saving newborn lives and preventing stillbirths in countries lags behind that ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Darmstadt GL,Shiffman J,Lawn JE

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In depth confidential inquiries on all post-perinatal infant deaths were carried out for two years in North and Southern Derbyshire District Health Authorities in order to explore why the postperinatal death rates and cot death rates have been consistently higher in Southern than in North Derbyshire. It was found that...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Newlands M,Adamson E,Ghulam S,Saleh M,Emery JL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies on adolescent drug use are scarce as most studies do not distinguish between children and adolescents. Therefore, we assessed overall drug use in adolescents. METHODS:A retrospective cohort study was conducted using pharmacy dispensing records from 62 community pharmacies in the Netherlands. Dispens...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kosse RC,Koster ES,de Vries TW,Bouvy ML

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the safety of bronchoscopy and endobronchial biopsy in children with difficult asthma, and discuss the ethical issues associated with the procedure. METHODS:A three year prospective observational study was performed in two tertiary paediatric respiratory centres specialising in the management of chi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Payne D,McKenzie SA,Stacey S,Misra D,Haxby E,Bush A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:162 children with infantile spasms were treated with ACTH at the Children's Hospital, Helsinki, and at the Aurora Hospital, Helsinki, during 1960--76. In a large proportion (37%) of the children the treatment caused pronounced side effects, and the mortality was 4.9%. The most common complications were infections: sep...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Riikonen R,Donner M

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Assays based on interferon gamma (IFNgamma) are an exciting new development for screening for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in adults, but there are limited data on their effectiveness in children. Nevertheless new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommend their ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Taylor RE,Cant AJ,Clark JE

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a non-progressive choreo-athetoid disorder of early onset, present in three families. There were no appreciable abnormalities in pregnancy, during the perinatal period, or in infancy. In each case the family history suggested transmission as an autosomal dominant trait, the gene showing diminished penetran...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sleigh G,Lindenbaum RH

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples from the pharynx, stomach, duodenum or jejunum, and faeces were collected on 7 days between 1st and 28th day from neonates weighing less than 1.5 kg at birth who were fed by transpyloric tube. These were cultured on selective and non-selective media, and the results were expressed in a semi-quantitative manner...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dellagrammaticas HD,Duerden BI,Milner RD

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured total work of breathing before and after the inhalation of water, salbutamol, and ipratropium bromide, given as nebulised solutions, in 39 studies on 25 infants with acute, severe bronchiolitis. Twenty minutes after nebulised water, mean work of breathing per minute was increased by 4% and work per li...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Stokes GM,Milner AD,Hodges IG,Henry RL,Elphick MC

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantify the burden of selected congenital anomalies in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) that could be reduced should surgical programmes cover the entire population with access to quality care. DESIGN:Burden of disease and epidemiological modelling. SETTING:LMICs from all global regions. POPULAT...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Higashi H,Barendregt JJ,Kassebaum NJ,Weiser TG,Bickler SW,Vos T

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vision screening of 13 and 15 year old children by school nurses in Oxfordshire has declined in recent years due to the pressure of other commitments. A study was carried out to evaluate the likely consequences of failing to provide vision screening for secondary schoolchildren, in order to make a decision about the f...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jewell G,Reeves B,Saffin K,Crofts B

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9 month old boy presented with acute respiratory distress and was found to have a left pleural effusion. The chylous nature of the effusion, multiple bony lytic lesions, and splenic cysts lead to the diagnosis of congenital lymphangiomatosis with chylothorax. Surgical intervention including pleurectomy was required ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dunkelman H,Sharief N,Berman L,Ninan T

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus presenting in children under five years old exhibits several clinical and management features that differ from diabetes presenting in older children. In this review of the current population of the Oxford children's diabetes clinic, children with diabetes diagnosed aged 0- less than...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jefferson IG,Smith MA,Baum JD

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：METHODS:A total of 43 children with neurological signs and symptoms were enrolled in the study. All children were suspected of having meningitis, and lumbar punctures were performed. Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) and HHV-7 DNA was detected in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) by nest...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Yoshikawa T,Ihira M,Suzuki K,Suga S,Matsubara T,Furukawa S,Asano Y

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:Rubella vaccination was offered to a cohort of schoolgirls 14 years and over whose immune state was unknown. This increased the percentage vaccinated or known to be immune from 86% to 90%. It is recommended that rubella vaccination should be offered to girls until they leave school at 16 years of age. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hodes DT

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults have shown that the requirement for assisted ventilation correlates closely with a poor outcome, and the need for ventilation is now being used as an indication for plasmapheresis. As comparable studies in children have not been performed we reviewed our experience o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cole GF,Matthew DJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases are reported in which thrombi were found in the aorta at postmortem. In each case the thrombus had originated within the ductus arteriosus. We believe that in recent years the attention paid to the presence of indwelling cannulae as a cause of embolic phenomena in the newborn period has led to a reduction ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Knowlson GT,Marsden HB

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00