Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry and quantitative ultrasound are not interchangeable in diagnosing abnormal bones.

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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate possible renal toxicity of long-term gentamicin inhalation in patients with cystic fibrosis. METHODS:Urinary N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) activity was measured during routine respiratory clinic visits. Outpatient records were reviewed for data on long-term gentamicin inhalation, and p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ring E,Eber E,Erwa W,Zach MS

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing evidence-based interventions for infants and children is important in paediatric intensive care, where decision making impacts most acutely on morbidity and mortality. However, despite the major progress of medicine in the 21st century, we still lack this evidence for majority of the decisions we make. In th...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kanthimathinathan HK,Scholefield BR

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The output of the drug and the particle size produced by various nebulisers were assessed, and sensible nebulisation times for sodium cromoglycate calculated. Three of the four nebuliser systems tested produced over 80% of total drug output within the first five minutes of nebulisation. We suggest that five minutes is...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Callaghan C,Clark AR,Milner AD

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Critical incidents are common during the inter-hospital transfer of sick patients, and infants are an especially vulnerable group. AIMS:To examine the effect of critical incident review on the number of adverse events during inter-hospital transfer of sick infants. METHODS:Critical incidents over an eight ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Moss SJ,Embleton ND,Fenton AC

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 4-year period the neonatal survival rate for 26 infants weighing 501-750 g was 42% and for 81 infants weighing 751-1000 g it was 61%. All 59 surviving infants have been assessed at follow-up; 39 were at least 2 years old (corrected for prematurity) and data from the remaining 20 were derived from assessment at 1 ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Orgill AA,Astbury J,Bajuk B,Yu VY

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty preterm infants (birthweight under 1500 g) were treated with phenobarbitone to examine its effectiveness in reducing the incidence of intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH), the control group comprising 28 infants. The treated group had 57% incidence of IVH and mortality of 13% compared with 68% and 14%, respective...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Anwar M,Kadam S,Hiatt IM,Hegyi T

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied 50 children with one parent with asthma at a mean age of 6.4 years by symptom questionnaire and performed allergy skin testing and measurement of bronchial responsiveness to methacholine in both parent and child in 29-32 cases. Ninety eight per cent of the parents were receiving medication for asthma. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Clifford RD,Pugsley A,Radford M,Holgate ST

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A standard acid resistant microsphere pancreatic enzyme preparation was compared with identical capsules half filled with mini-tablets of a new high lipase preparation in a randomised double blind crossover study in children with cystic fibrosis. Each patient received his/her usual number of capsules and the same dose...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bowler IM,Wolfe SP,Owens HM,Sheldon TA,Littlewood JM,Walters MP

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Science and Research Department was commissioned by the Department of Health to develop national care pathways for children with allergies: the asthma/rhinitis care pathway is the third such pathway. Asthma and rhinitis have been considered together. These ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Vance G,Lloyd K,Scadding G,Walker S,Jewkes F,Williams L,Dixon L,O'Beirne C,Fletcher P,Brown T,Hughes J,Sohi D,Piddock C,Shields M,McKean M,Warner J,Science and Research Department, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child H

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid suppressible hyperaldosteronism (GSH) is an uncommon form of dominantly inherited hypertension. Presentation with hypertension and complications such as stroke in early life are well recognised. The use of a simple genetic test carried out on blood or placenta facilitates the detection of infants and ch...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jamieson A,Inglis GC,Campbell M,Fraser R,Connell JM

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:The practice of general paediatricians in the initial evaluation of congenital hypothyroidism (CHT) was assessed. This was performed by a questionnaire survey of paediatricians in East Anglia of whom 84% responded. Nineteen of 25 clinicians based in seven district hospitals managed children with CHT. The median number...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ahmed SF,Barnes ND,Hughes IA

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred of the 192 survivors of repaired oesophageal atresia at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, aged one year and over on 1 November 1973, were reviewed to determine the frequency of respiratory complications. 78 children suffered from more than 3 attacks of bronchitis per year during the first 3 years o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dudley NE,Phelan PD

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine and compare the characteristics of food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) caused by rice and cow's milk/soy. DESIGN:Retrospective study of children presenting with FPIES to the Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW, Australia, over a 16-year period. RESULTS:There were 14 children with...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mehr SS,Kakakios AM,Kemp AS

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:School medical records of 1000 children born in 1981 were studied retrospectively. They showed that once known medical problems and those screened for by the school nurse (hearing, vision, growth) were excluded, only 17 problems requiring treatment were discovered: speech (n = 10), development (n = 3), undescended tes...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smith GC,Powell A,Reynolds K,Campbell CA

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The epidemiology of congenital infections is ever changing, with a recent resurgence in syphilis infection rates seen in the UK. Identification of congenital infection is often delayed; early recognition and management of congenital infections is important. Testing modalities and investigations are often lim...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Penner J,Hernstadt H,Burns JE,Randell P,Lyall H

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two infants presented with a salt-losing syndrome, the presenting features of which were subtle. One case appeared to be transient. Deficient production of aldosterone was shown by plasma renin activity and plasma aldosterone profile. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of urine indicated a defect in 18-dehydrogenati...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Milla PJ,Trompeter R,Dillon MJ,Robins D,Shackleton C

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of albumin/creatinine ratios and simple albumin concentrations in early morning urine specimens were evaluated to establish which was the best screening test for those likely to have microalbuminuria by the reference standard analysis of timed overnight urine specimens. The measurement of an albumin/cr...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shield JP,Hunt LP,Baum JD,Pennock CA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children at three inner city child health clinics were offered haemoglobin estimation by fingerprick blood test when attending for immunisation against measles. Of the 98 immunised, 92 (94%) participated in the study, together with 58 other children. Anaemia (haemoglobin concentration less than 110 g/l) was found in 3...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Marder E,Nicoll A,Polnay L,Shulman CE

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To study how respiratory symptoms reported by children, with or without spirometry, could help to discriminate those with asthma from those without. METHODS:Respiratory symptoms (frequent cough, frequent phlegm, and wheezing) reported by 1646 schoolchildren (aged 8-12 years) in a respiratory questionnaire and the...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Yu IT,Wong TW,Li W

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:During the 6-year period from 1 October 1971 to 30 September 1977, 13 (about 1%) of 1225 admissions to hospital with asthma developed severe ventilatory failure (peak arterial PCO 2 greater than 8 kPa). Mean age was 4.1 years (2.3--7.9), and on average each patient had been admitted to hospital on 5 occasions during t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Simpson H,Mitchell I,Inglis JM,Grubb DJ

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven very low birthweight babies being ventilated for respiratory problems during the first week of life developed air leaks on 22 occasions. On 16 out of 19 occasions the infants showed increases in urinary excretion of vasopressin after these events and on 10 occasions out of 13 there was a rise in the plasma argi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McIntosh N,Prakash P,Smith A

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information is presented about 19 children, under age 7 years, from 17 families, whose mothers consistently gave fraudulent clinical histories and fabricated signs so causing them needless harmful medical investigations, hospital admissions, and treatment over periods of time ranging from a few months to 4 years. Epis...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Meadow R

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous formation of thromboxane A2 and prostacyclin were evaluated in seven neonatates with persistent pulmonary hypertension by serial gas chromatographic mass spectrometric determination of their urinary metabolites dinor-thromboxane B2 and dinor-6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha, respectively. The patients were stu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kühl PG,Cotton RB,Schweer H,Seyberth HW

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transport characteristics of the placenta, which favour higher phenylalanine concentrations in the fetus than in the mother, and regression data of head circumference at birth against phenylalanine concentration at conception in maternal phenylketonuria (PKU), suggest that treatment of maternal PKU should ideally ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thompson GN,Francis DE,Kirby DM,Compton R

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A children's hospital nutritional care team prospectively monitored the frequency of sepsis in central venous catheters used for administering parenteral nutrition. During an initial study period of 12 months, 26/58 (45%) of catheters were removed because of proved sepsis. The possible causes of this alarmingly high r...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Puntis JW,Holden CE,Smallman S,Finkel Y,George RH,Booth IW

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sodium intake of preschool children in their home environment was investigated and the major sources of sodium other than added table salt identified. Thirty five children from a Southampton general practice were studied. Twenty four hour urinary sodium excretion was measured as a reliable indicator of daily total...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Allison ME,Walker V

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with biotinidase deficiency were studied. Clinical findings at presentation varied with dermatological signs (dermatitis and alopecia), neurological abnormalities (fits, hypotonia, and ataxia), and recurrent infections being the most common features, although none of these occurred in every case. Biochemi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wastell HJ,Bartlett K,Dale G,Shein A

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00