Increased detection of cystic-fibrosis-related diabetes in Australia.

abstract：:Using an electronic inhaler timer device (Nebulizer Chronolog), compliance with the prescribed frequency of inhaled prophylactic medication in 14 asthmatic children was measured. Underuse occurred in 55% of study days while overuse occurred in only 2%. Such devices provide an important new tool for investigating inhal...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Coutts JA,Gibson NA,Paton JY

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm infants with symptomatic patent ductus arteriosus had considerably raised plasma concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide. Surgical ligation of the patent ductus arteriosus was associated with an immediate fall in plasma atrial natriuretic peptide concentration. Thus left to right shunting and left atrial ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rascher W,Seyberth HW

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate a systematic approach to the development and implementation of evidence based asthma management guidelines. METHODS:Comparative study of children (2-18 years) with acute asthma; a control cohort (cohort 1) was recruited before implementation of the guidelines and two cohorts were recruited after imple...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Massie J,Efron D,Cerritelli B,South M,Powell C,Haby MM,Gilbert E,Vidmar S,Carlin J,Robertson CF,ICAAM Study Group.

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) aims to integrate drug measurement results into clinical decision making. The basic rules apply when using TDM in neonates (aminoglycosides, vancomycin, phenobarbital, digoxin), but additional factors should also be taken into account. First, due to both pharmacokinetic variability an...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pauwels S,Allegaert K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate gastric emptying in girls with Turner's syndrome to detect if gastrointestinal motor dysfunction was present. SUBJECTS:Thirteen girls (mean age 8.1 years) with Turner's syndrome, seven girls with familial short stature (6.1 years), and eight control girls (7.6 years). METHODS:Gastric emptying studies ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Staiano A,Salerno M,Di Maio S,Marsullo G,Marino A,Concolino D,Strisciuglio P

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:Interleukin-2 (IL-2) and T cell subpopulations were evaluated in children with rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Three groups were included: 13 patients with active RHD, 12 with non-active RHD, and 14 control children. Serum IL-2 and T cell subpopulations were measured by radioimmunoassay and monoclonal antibodies respec...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Zedan MM,el-Shennawy FA,Abou-Bakr HM,al-Basousy AM

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening for hearing loss in the first year of life, using the distraction test, remains the responsibility of health visitors in most health districts in the United Kingdom. We have evaluated the screening procedure used routinely in one health region in a population of infants at increased risk of sensorineural dea...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Johnson A,Ashurst H

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred consecutive cases of boys with foreskin problems referred to local paediatric surgeons in the Edinburgh area were studied. Fifty five underwent circumcision and the remainder were managed more conservatively with or without the use of local or general anaesthetic. Although sometimes avoiding general anaest...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lafferty PM,MacGregor FB,Scobie WG

更新日期：1991-06-01 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:Varicella universal vaccination (UV) has been implemented in many countries for several years. Nevertheless, varicella UV remains debated in Europe and few data are available on the real burden of infection. We assessed the burden of varicella in Belgium through analysis of hospitalised cases during a 1-year...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Blumental S,Sabbe M,Lepage P,Belgian Group for Varicella.

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel form of severe, X linked mental retardation associated with alpha thalassaemia (ATR-X syndrome) has recently been described. Two affected cousins are described, one of whom has an unusually mild haematological phenotype. HbH inclusions, which are the hallmark of this disease, were only detected in the peripher...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Logie LJ,Gibbons RJ,Higgs DR,Brown JK,Porteous ME

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bowel habits in 844 preterm infants were observed during the first 56 days after birth. Delay in the passage of meconium beyond the second day occurred in 32%, and there was an inverse relation between gestational age and the day of first bowel action. Thereafter the increase in frequency of stools passed each day...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Weaver LT,Lucas A

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:We recorded the respiratory history by questionnaire in a 7 year old cohort of children whose birth weight was under 2000 g and an unselected reference group of local schoolchildren of the same age. Complete data were obtained in 121 low birthweight children (90% of those studied): 62 who had no neonatal respiratory i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chan KN,Elliman A,Bryan E,Silverman M

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the bacteriological quality of unpooled expressed breast milk, a pilot bottle sample of each donation was examined before the milk was given to the neonate. Provided the milk did not contain greater than 2500 organisms/ml or potential pathogens it was used unheated. Milk containing between 2500 and 5000 orga...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Davidson DC,Poll RA,Roberts C

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allergic response is distinct from other immune reactions in its reliance on IgE, its high affinity receptor, Fc epsilon RI, and the primary effector cell--the tissue mast cell. Positive skin tests or raised concentrations of specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) in the serum define IgE sensitisation or "atopy". IgE par...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Milgrom H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antibiotic drugs are frequently used for viral infections in children. It is probable that health beliefs and parental concern have great influence on the use of drugs in children. This study, performed in The Netherlands, investigates whether the use of antibiotics in children is associated with the use of m...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Jong J,Bos JH,de Vries TW,de Jong-van den Berg LT

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10 1/2 year old boy presented with raised intracranial pressure and precocious puberty caused by a human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) secreting pineal germinoma. After craniospinal irradiation he improved clinically and his HCG concentration fell to an undetectable value. Two years later he remains well. Pineal ger...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ahmed SR,Shalet SM,Price DA,Pearson D

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal data were analysed on the lung function of 25 of 29 survivors of childhood leukaemia or lymphoma, who had been conditioned with cyclophosphamide and total body irradiation before allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, to test whether children are particularly vulnerable to pulmonary damage after transpla...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nysom K,Holm K,Hesse B,Ulrik CS,Jacobsen N,Bisgaard H,Hertz H

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mode of delivery has recently gained attention as another potential perinatal risk factor for childhood obesity but results are conflicting. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether caesarean section is independently associated with childhood obesity after adjusting for a broad range of confounding factors. METHOD...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Flemming K,Woolcott CG,Allen AC,Veugelers PJ,Kuhle S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pulmonary response to inhalation challenge with nebulised distilled water was measured in 100 sedated infants with a history of wheeze. Lung function was measured by total body plethysmography. Satisfactory results were obtained in 88 infants. Fifty one were considered to have responded by developing a greater tha...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Callaghan C,Milner AD,Webb MS,Swarbrick A

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imaging has many uses, but in cases of suspected child abuse, radiographs and CT scans are vital in identifying fractures and head injury that may not be clinically obvious. There are growing concerns about the small but potential adverse effects of radiation, including cancer, in the paediatric population as a result...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bajaj M,Offiah AC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A register has been compiled of the 421 children with congenital cerebral palsy born between 1960 and 1975 from a defined geographical area of North East England (population 770 000). There was a fall in the rate of cerebral palsy among very low birthweight babies between 1964 and 1975 and also in the small group with...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jarvis SN,Holloway JS,Hey EN

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A girl was born to a mother who had undergone treatment for epilepsy with carbamazepine during pregnancy. The infant had dysmorphic features and was physically and mentally retarded. We consider that the malformations were the result of the maternal treatment with carbamazepine. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Vestermark V,Vestermark S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in two consecutive sisters is reported. The first sibling showed hepatosplenomegaly with slight hyperbilirubinaemia and abnormal liver function tests, right inguinal hernia, and peripheral lymphoedema. Her sister, the product of an uneventful pre...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nigro G,Clerico A,Mondaini C

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Short-course oral corticosteroids are commonly used in children but are known to be associated with adverse drug reactions (ADRs). This review aimed to identify the most common and serious ADRs and to determine their relative risk levels. METHODS:A literature search of EMBASE, MEDLINE, International Pharmac...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Aljebab F,Choonara I,Conroy S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:National and international recommendations for the age of introducing solid foods (weaning) are founded on insufficient evidence and little is known about the short and medium term consequences associated with early or late weaning. AIMS AND METHODS:Data from over 1600 infants from five prospective randomis...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morgan JB,Lucas A,Fewtrell MS

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical, non-diarrhoea associated haemolytic uraemic syndrome (D-HUS) is a heterogeneous disorder with a generally poor outcome, although this view has now been questioned. The clinical and laboratory features of 23 children with D-HUS, representing a third of all patients with HUS seen during the last 26 years, were...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Neuhaus TJ,Calonder S,Leumann EP

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate how parents report children's respiratory sounds on video compared to a clinical "gold standard". METHODS:Five clinicians agreed on 10 video clips of children with audible breathing. These responses were the "gold standard". The clips were shown to parents of children: (a) with asthma/wheeze; (b) w...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cane RS,McKenzie SA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00