Accidents on hospital wards.

abstract：:Concentrations of chorionic somatomammotrophin (hCS) in maternal plasma at the time of delivery and in placental extracts were determined by radioimmunoassay and related to neonatal growth in 111 normal pregnancies. Mean maternal plasma hCS concentration was lower in association with small-for-dates infants, defined b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Macmillian DR,Hawkins R,Collier RN

更新日期：1976-02-01 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：:This review focuses on recent advances of topical interest regarding the diagnosis and treatment of common causes of bacterial meningitis occurring in children beyond the neonatal period. Tuberculous meningitis is beyond the scope of this review. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： El Bashir H,Laundy M,Booy R

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Growth hormone insufficiency (GHI) is diagnosed conventionally by short stature and slow growth, and is confirmed by diminished peak GH response to a provocation test. Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and IGF binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3) have previously been considered individually OBJECTIVE:To test the ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mitchell H,Dattani MT,Nanduri V,Hindmarsh PC,Preece MA,Brook CG

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent daytime incontinence is a fairly uncommon but important problem. Videourodynamic studies were carried out in 215 children presenting with this problem in whom there were no neurological signs and who had not responded to simple measures. Over 90% of symptomatic children were shown to have an abnormality, of...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Borzyskowski M,Mundy AR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma testosterone was estimated by radioimmunoassay in 60 children with disorders of sexual development before and after stimulation with human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG). In 21 children the testosterone levels after 3 and 5 daily injections of 1000 units HCG were compared and good correlation was found between t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Grant DB,Laurance BM,Atherden SM,Ryness J

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of zinc in the hair of 219 schoolchildren aged between 10 and 11 years was measured and related to height, weight, estimates of consumption of zinc-rich foods, number of children living at home, and rank in family. None of the correlation coefficients between hair zinc and the other variables was sig...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Heinersdorff N,Taylor TG

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：OBJECTIVE:To ascertain the relationship between prelacteal feeding, early formula feeding and adverse health outcomes, especially hospitalisation during the first year of life. DESIGN:Multicentre prospective cohort study. SETTING:Six hospitals across three cities in Vietnam. PATIENTS:A total of 2030 pregnant women w...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nguyen P,Binns CW,Ha AVV,Chu TK,Nguyen LC,Duong DV,Do DV,Lee AH

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of posthaemorrhagic ventricular dilatation by early repeated cerebrospinal fluid taps was compared with conservative management in a randomised controlled trial of 157 infants in 15 centres. Thirty infants died and six moved abroad before follow up. During the first 14 days after randomisation, the early tre...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors：

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Infections with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) such as Gram-negative bacteria have high morbidity and mortality with limited treatment options. Colistin, an antibiotic active against MDRO, was rarely used due to frequent adverse effects, but its use has now been recommended among adults. In this study,...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ambreen G,Salat MS,Hussain K,Raza SS,Ali U,Azam I,Iqbal J,Fatmi Z

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To describe the epidemiology of children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) admitted to paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in the UK. METHODS:Prospective collection of clinical and demographic information from paediatric and adult intensive care units in the UK and Eire between February 2001 and August 2003. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Parslow RC,Morris KP,Tasker RC,Forsyth RJ,Hawley CA,UK Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Study Steering Group.,Paediatric Intensive Care Society Study Group.

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerns have been raised about the hazards of the insulin tolerance test (ITT), used to measure growth hormone secretion. In Glasgow, we continue to use this test, adhering to a strict protocol. A review of outcome over a 10 year period (1989-99), during which 550 ITTs were performed, was undertaken. No serious adver...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Galloway PJ,McNeill E,Paterson WF,Donaldson MD

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the prevalence of depression in children with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and investigate the relationship between depression in CFS/ME and clinical symptoms such as fatigue, disability, pain and school attendance. DESIGN:Cross-sectional survey data using the Hos...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bould H,Collin SM,Lewis G,Rimes K,Crawley E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials in children in resource-poor environments are essential for local health policy and practice to be relevant and evidence based. Research must be ethical, appropriate, relevant and of good quality. It should, where possible, benefit the subjects studied,the clinical, scientific and support staff involve...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Molyneux E,Mathanga D,Witte D,Molyneux M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 90% of children with cancer reside in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) where healthcare resources are scarce and allocation decisions difficult. The cost effectiveness of treating childhood cancers in these settings is unknown. The objective of the present work was to determine cost-effectiv...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bhakta N,Martiniuk AL,Gupta S,Howard SC

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 15 years, 42 children aged 2-14 years were diagnosed as having acquired aplastic anaemia. Adequate clinical details were available for 38 children who were categorised as very severe (n = 13), severe (n = 16), or nonsevere (n = 9) by the modified Camitta criteria. Treatment varied over the study period. Seven chi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Webb DK,Hann IM,Chessells JM

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the quality of paediatric audits from 1966 to 1999. METHODS:A Medline search was performed using the MeSH terms audit, child, paediatric (and pediatric). Predefined core elements of audit were used as inclusion criteria for entry of an article into this study. These criteria were as follows: (1) an art...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Gorman CS,Ziedan Y,O'Neill MB

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus retinitis is common in adults with AIDS but has been reported infrequently in children with perinatally acquired HIV infection. The cases are presented of two infants with vertically acquired HIV infection who developed disseminated cytomegalovirus infection and retinitis, and who posed difficult manag...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Peters MJ,Moeller HU,Russell-Eggitt I,Novelli V

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two investigations of paediatric manpower in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland were carried out, each using a different method. The first survey located registrars and senior registrars and checked on their occupational status 3 years later in order to see which ones had been promoted. Loss factors--such as emigrat...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Liberman MM,Bellman MH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the prevalence of microcephaly in infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in eight private hospitals in south-eastern and midwestern Brazil, from 2011 to 2015. DESIGN:Observational, cross-sectional study in a cohort of neonates. SETTING:Eight private NICUs situated in the c...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Magalhães-Barbosa MC,Prata-Barbosa A,Robaina JR,Raymundo CE,Lima-Setta F,Antonio José Ledo Alves da Cunha

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied two neonates fed diluted formula and excessive water who developed hyponatraemic convulsions; treatment included intravenous hypertonic saline and water restriction. Educating mothers is important to stop recurrences. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Vanapruks V,Prapaitrakul K

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gross neuropathy consequent upon selective malabsorption of vitamin B12 was diagnosed in a 6 year old Bangladeshi girl brought to Great Britain for further investigation of an unexplained illness of three years' duration. The initial peripheral blood count was normal. Treatment with vitamin B12 has led to substantial ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Conway SP,Gillies DR,Littlewood JM

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial splenectomy was performed on 30 patients with homozygous beta thalassaemia to reduce blood requirements and to avoid the risk of overwhelming postsplenectomy infections; 24 patients had thalassaemia major and six thalassaemia intermedia. Five patients received a high transfusion regimen before and after surger...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Montalembert M,Girot R,Revillon Y,Jan D,Adjrad L,Ardjoun FZ,Belhani M,Najean Y

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:A 3 year old girl with Down's syndrome became lethargic and withdrawn, and investigations showed a specific malabsorption of vitamin B12 without proteinuria. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cartlidge PH,Curnock DA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course of 6 children with primary intestinal lymphangiectuasia who have been treated with low fat medium chain triglyceride-supplemented diets for between 3 and 8 years (4 for longer than 5 years) is described. Though laboratory findings indicate continuing chyle leak, evidence for long-term benefit from ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tift WL,Lloyd JK

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00