Newborn screening for metabolic disorders: parental perceptions of the initial communication of results.

abstract：:Three cases are presented which illustrate the possible difficulties in differentiating between the diagnoses of Guillain-Barre Syndrome and conversion disorder. Accepted criteria are specified for each condition, as well as some associated features often characteristic of similar cases. Supportive interdisciplinary t...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Wherry JN,McMillan SL,Hutchison HT

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Testicular torsion is a common surgical emergency in children that requires a high index of suspicion, early diagnosis, and exploration. Most children present early to their primary pediatricians or physicians. The aim of this retrospective study is to determine the surgical outcome of testicular torsion w...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Kumar V,Matai P,Prabhu SP,Sundeep PT

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital right diaphragmatic hernia can present a difficult diagnostic problem. An illustrative case is reviewed in which the diagnosis was not considered during the initial hospitalization because chest radiographs were interpreted as showing an atelectatic and pneumonic process. Once suspected, the diagnosis was m...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Stahl GE,Warren WS,Rosenberg H,Spackman TJ,Schnaufer L

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bedwetting is the most common urologic complaint among children. Wetting frequency at age 7 years varies from 5% to 15%. Treatment has been multimodal: drugs to depress bladder activity, increase urethral resistance, or modulate sleep; electrophysiologic treatment; and, recently, urine production modulation. All of th...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Nørgaard JP,Djurhuus JC

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only five cases of subarachnoid-pleural fistula in children have been reported previously. All had a history of trauma and associated neurologic deficit which gave clue to the diagnosis. The authors present a child who presented with a massive, rapidly filling, clear pleural effusion in whom there was no neurologic de...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Singhi P,Nayak US,Ghai S,Kumar L,Reddy KS,Suri RK

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure the willingness and ability of primary care pediatricians (PCPs) to accept children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) into their practices. METHODS:Surveys were mailed to 1441 members of the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics practicing primary care. RESULTS:In...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Agrawal R,Shah P,Zebracki K,Sanabria K,Kohrman C,Kohrman AF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is responsible for one of the most frequently encountered infectious diseases worldwide. H. pylori infection can lead to the development of gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. The presence of H. pylori in the human stomach also represents an increased risk for gastric cancer and gastric...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Blecker U

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When dealing with the management of the dying patient and his family, systematic research has been very limited. Understanding the dying child's needs, as well as his family's, is important for approprirate therapy programs. The present study investigated the mother's awareness of her child's expressed and wanted need...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Samaniego LR,Caldwell HS,Nitschke R,Humphrey GB

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Such a program was used to treat 18 encopretic children; 17 improved and 14 became completely free of soiling. Most encopretic children can be managed by pediatricians and only those children with severe emotional disorders require psychiatric referral. ...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Hein HA,Beerends JJ

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although considerable attention has focused on the pathophysiology and external dermatologic consequences of epidermolysis bullosa (EB), head and neck mucosal manifestations pose specific management problems. The otolaryngologic aspects of EB, with emphasis on involvement and treatment of the ears, oral cavity and tee...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Schaffer SR

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two children with multiple severe disabilities due to brain destruction by neonatal infection had recurrent hypothermia (less than 34 degrees C) with associated thrombocytopenia (less than 50,000), and clinical hemorrhage. They also had milder, less consistent erythroid and myeloid cell line abnormalities. The hypothe...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Holm IA,McLaughlin JF,Feldman K,Stone EF

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of tepid sponging, in addition to antipyretic medication, in the reduction of temperature in febrile children living in a tropical environment, was assessed in a prospective, randomized, open trial. Seventy-five children aged between 6 and 53 months who attended the casualty department of the Childre...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Mahar AF,Allen SJ,Milligan P,Suthumnirund S,Chotpitayasunondh T,Sabchareon A,Coulter JB

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron poisoning was a leading cause of pediatric morbidity and mortality. We sought to assess whether the removal of strict iron packaging requirements in 2003 resulted in an increase in iron-related morbidity and mortality in pediatric exposures. We performed a retrospective cohort study utilizing the National Poison ...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Leonard JB,Hines EQ,Klein-Schwartz W

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The rate at which pediatricians promote smoking cessation in clinical settings is low. The literature demonstrates that interventions paired with tangible health promotion materials may significantly increase screening rates to the pediatric office. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the additi...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Thomas KEH,Kisely S,Urrego F

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports the case of a 3-year-old male with an elevated blood lead level. The child had a history of consuming imported lead-contaminated candies resulting in abdominal pains for which he was given a Hispanic folk remedy, called greta, by his mother. The home remedy aggravated the child's symptoms which pr...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Cabb EE,Gorospe EC,Rothweiler AM,Gerstenberger SL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a six-year-old boy with newly diagnosed tracheoesophageal fistula of the H-type is presented. This diagnosis is usually made in the neonatal period, but since the symptoms may mimic other respiratory illnesses and radiologic diagnosis may be difficult, the condition may go undiagnosed for years. Since corr...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Frates MC,terMeulen DC,Yee WF

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD) often leads to fatal neonatal hyperammonemia in affected males (hemizygotes). In prenatal management of subsequent pregnancies, families carrying female fetuses are often reassured of the low risk of clinically overt disease. We suggest that such reassurance may be...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Fries MH,Kuller JA,Jurecki E,Packman S

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although trauma undertriage has been widely discussed in the literature, undertriage in the pediatric trauma population remains understudied. Using the 2009-2013 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, we assessed the national undertriage rate in pediatric major trauma patients (age ≤16 years and injury severity score...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Peng J,Wheeler K,Groner JI,Haley KJ,Xiang H

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood celiac disease (CD) is considered rare in the United States. Consequently there are few data concerning its clinical presentation. A validated questionnaire was distributed to families of children with CD. One hundred forty-one children with biopsy-proven CD were included in the study. We found significant d...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： D'Amico MA,Holmes J,Stavropoulos SN,Frederick M,Levy J,DeFelice AR,Kazlow PG,Green PH

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to document the incidence of falls from playground equipment in the United States over time and to provide a detailed profile of the individuals injured in playground falls using several state and national databases. During the past decade, there has been a steep decline in the number of...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Tuckel P,Milczarski W,Silverman DG

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is one of the most common causes of chronic kidney disease in children. Mostly, NS is controlled by steroids. In spite of this, 10% to 20% of the patients have steroid resistant NS (SRNS), and the rest have steroid sensitive NS (SSNS). Eighty-seven children with NS (66 SSNS; 21SRNS) were retros...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Alharthi AA

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the years 1976 through 1980, 118 children with osteomyelitis were seen at our hospital, an incidence of almost 24 cases per year. Twenty-eight of these had sickle cell disease. Males were more commonly affected than females, with a ratio of 2.1 to 1, and bones of the lower extremities were more commonly involve...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Okoroma EO,Agbo DC

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a concern that lactation failure and neonatal morbidity might be more common than previously thought. Maybe the early discharge, the lack of timely follow-up, or poor information during pregnancy or after delivery play important roles. A case of severe hypernatremic dehydration secondary to lactation failure ...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Alsina-Manrique L,Esteban M,Salvià D,Miracle X,Rodríguez-Miguélez J,Figueras J,Carbonell X

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes ( a) parent questions about ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder), ( b) parent Internet use to seek ADHD information, and ( c) associations between type of Internet access and ADHD information-seeking. Seventy parents of children (ages 7-17 years) with ADHD completed questionnaires aft...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Sage A,Carpenter D,Sayner R,Thomas K,Mann L,Sulzer S,Sandler A,Sleath B

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 43 youngsters with gonorrhea, 11 were under 10 years of age. These 11 had in common atypical clinical presentation, marital disharmony of the parents, crowded living conditions; some had been abused sexually. Management of gonorrhea in such young children may require a concerted effort by a team of medical, social,...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Low RC,Cho CT,Dudding BA

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteremia in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) has not been previously reported, a fact probably attributable to activated systemic immunity in the presence of chronic bronchopulmonary infection. We have observed two CF patients under a year of age with documented bacteremia, and a teen-aged patient with autopsy evi...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： McCarthy MM,Rourk MH,Spock A

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates relations between language and cognitive scores in children with receptive language (RL) delay and suggests guidelines for referral for cognitive testing. This retrospective review of the test scores of 41 children, ages 17 to 76 months (mean = 37.7 months), focuses on examining associations be...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Fagan MK,Montgomery TR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. The available literature on pulmonary disease in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease is limited. We evaluated the prevalence of pulmonary manifestations in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease and their association with disease severity. Methods. Patients completed the St. George's Respiratory Questionnai...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Barfield E,Deshmukh F,Slighton E,Lentine J,Lu Y,Ma X,Christos PJ,Sockolow RE,Loughlin G,Pillai S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aims of this study were to detect the infection rates of DNA viruses in liver tissue of biliary atresia and to investigate the effect of perinatal infection of cytomegalovirus in biliary atresia. METHODS:A total of 85 liver biopsies (taken during Kasai portoenterostomy) were tested by fluorescence quantitativ...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Xu Y,Yu J,Zhang R,Yin Y,Ye J,Tan L,Xia H

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young children receive a variety of diagnostic radiographs over time. In some cases the exposure to radiation may be unwarranted because the films may yield confusing results, or may also need to be repeated because of poor technical quality. Even when the results are clearly negative, the subsequent treatment may pro...

journal_title：Clinical pediatrics

authors： Fosarelli PD,DeAngelis C

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00