Clinical monitoring of steatorrhoea in cystic fibrosis.

abstract：:Seventy-three low birthweight babies were independently assessed for gestational age using the scoring system of Dubowitz et al. (1970) and 5 neurological reflexes described by Robinson (1966). The results obtained by the 5 reflexes were compared with those obtained by the scoring system and were found to be accurate ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Serfontein GL,Jaroszewicz AM

更新日期：1978-06-01 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：:In a prospective follow up of 116 high risk infants, a 24 hour behavioural chart on seven consecutive days was analysed at seven and 12 weeks of age. Of children who manifested atopic disease at 2 years, 44/116 (38%), had shown significantly more fussing during the seventh, and colic type cry during the twelfth week t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kalliomäki M,Laippala P,Korvenranta H,Kero P,Isolauri E

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The value of comparative effectiveness trials in informing clinical and policy decisions depends heavily on the choice of control arm (comparator). Our objective is to identify challenges in comparator reasoning and to determine justification criteria for selecting a control arm in paediatric clinical trials....

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kelly LE,Davies EH,Saint-Raymond A,Tomasi P,Offringa M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine whether the use of negative pressure ventilation (NPV) was associated with a lower rate of endotracheal intubation in infants with recurrent apnoea secondary to acute bronchiolitis. METHODS:Retrospective review of two paediatric intensive care units (PICU) databases and case notes; one PICU offered N...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Al-balkhi A,Klonin H,Marinaki K,Southall DP,Thomas DA,Jones P,Samuels MP

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the clinical presentation and sequelae, including salt-wasting crises of newly-diagnosed congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in children aged over 1 year in a contemporary population without screening. To appraise the potential benefit of newborn screening for late-presenting CAH. DESIGN:Active...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Knowles RL,Khalid JM,Oerton JM,Hindmarsh PC,Kelnar CJ,Dezateux C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To document the patterns of presentation and outcome of severe anticholinesterase insecticide poisoning in children requiring intensive care. METHODS:Retrospective case note review of all 5541 children admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a university hospital during the 10 years from January ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Verhulst L,Waggie Z,Hatherill M,Reynolds L,Argent A

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:Intestinal D-fructose absorption in 31 children was investigated using measurements of breath hydrogen. Twenty five children had no abdominal symptoms and six had functional bowel disorders. After ingestion of fructose (2 g/kg bodyweight), 22 children (71%) showed a breath hydrogen increase of more than 10 ppm over ba...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kneepkens CM,Vonk RJ,Fernandes J

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a screening programme of 10000 pregnant women by the Guthrie test, a previously unrecognised phenylketonuric woman was detected. A low phenylalanine diet introduced from the 16th week of gestation failed to prevent fetal abnormality and mental retardation. Maternal phenylketonuria requires earlier diagnosis tha...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Scott TM,Fyfe WM,Hart DM

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zinc content of peripheral blood leucocytes from the cord blood of 63 normal and 20 preterm babies, and of 27 babies with evidence of idiopathic intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) was measured. Leucocyte zinc depletion was present in babies with acute IUGR (IUGR babies compared with controls, mean 47.8 v 51.5 ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Meadows N,Ruse W,Keeling PW,Scopes JW,Thompson RP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortic arch anomalies in infancy often cause intrathoracic airway obstruction. Airway function was assessed as part of the diagnostic evaluation in six symptomatic infants both by plethysmography and using a chest compression technique to obtain partial flow-volume loops. Two infants had normal intrathoracic airway fu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thomson AH,Beardsmore CS,Firmin R,Leanage R,Simpson H

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report highlights the association between tuberous sclerosis and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Ten patients with concurrent diagnoses of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and tuberous sclerosis were identified. Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome presented early in life, nine cases being diagnosed in the first year. Ei...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Callaghan FJ,Clarke AC,Joffe H,Keeton B,Martin R,Salmon A,Thomas RD,Osborne JP

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Respiratory viral infections precipitate exacerbations of chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease though similar data in non-cystic fibrosis (CF) bronchiectasis are missing. Our study aimed to determine the point prevalence of viruses associated with exacerbation...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kapur N,Mackay IM,Sloots TP,Masters IB,Chang AB

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Thirty nine infants with severe asphyxia (28 affected perinatally and 11 later) were studied by electrophysiological cerebral function monitoring (CFM) for periods varying from a half to 49 days. Nineteen infants died while still in intensive care and two died later from sequelae. Eighteen survived and were followed u...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bjerre I,Hellström-Westas L,Rosén I,Svenningsen N

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart murmurs are common in children, and they are often referred to a specialist for examination. A clinically innocent murmur does not need further investigation. The referral area of the University Hospital is large and sparsely populated. A new service for remote auscultation (telemedicine) of heart murm...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dahl LB,Hasvold P,Arild E,Hasvold T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A volumetric Doppler technique was used to measure net ductus arteriosus shunt during the first 48 hours of life in 30 infants of less than 33 weeks' gestation, and in 10 full term infants. In the full term infants a left to right shunt of 62 ml/kg/minute (95% confidence limits 43-82) shortly after birth decreased rap...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Drayton MR,Skidmore R

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Moderately preterm children (gestational age 32-36+6 weeks) are at risk of cognitive and behaviour problems at school age. The aim of this study was to investigate if these problems are already present at the age of 2 years. STUDY DESIGN:Developmental outcome was assessed at 24-months (corrected age) with th...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Jong M,Verhoeven M,Lasham CA,Meijssen CB,van Baar AL

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited access to exercise testing facilities means that the diagnosis of exercise induced asthma (EIA) is mainly based on self-reported respiratory symptoms. This is open to error since the correlation between exercise related symptoms and subsequent exercise testing has been shown to be poor. AIM:To study...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Seear M,Wensley D,West N

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol for the management of irritable hip was assessed; this protocol avoids hospital admission while detecting all other serious causes of hip pain, in particular septic arthritis, at the earliest possible opportunity. Fifty children with painful hips were studied prospectively with immediate ultrasound guided a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fink AM,Berman L,Edwards D,Jacobson SK

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 21 month old male infant who presented with failure to thrive associated with severe hypokalaemia and metabolic acidosis, together with hypomagnesaemia. Evaluation revealed marked renal and probable faecal potassium wasting, distal renal tubular acidosis, mild urinary magnesium wasting, and a normal gast...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Simpson AM,Schwartz GJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The duration of symptoms before diagnosis (lag time) was defined for 184 of 236 children diagnosed as having a malignancy at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh for the time period January 1982 until December 1990. The natural logarithm of the lag time was correlated with age, gender, diagnostic group, whi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Saha V,Love S,Eden T,Micallef-Eynaud P,MacKinlay G

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the effect of modified polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) profiles of complementary food on long-chain (LC) PUFA composition in healthy infants. DESIGN:Double blinded, randomised, controlled intervention trial. SETTING:Dortmund, Germany. PATIENTS:Free-living sample of healthy term infants. METHODS...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Schwartz J,Dube K,Sichert-Hellert W,Kannenberg F,Kunz C,Kalhoff H,Kersting M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some victims of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) are found with their heads covered with bedclothes, but the significance of this is uncertain. The aim of this review is to describe the prevalence of head covering, the magnitude of the risk and how far the suggested causal mechanisms agree with current ep...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Blair PS,Mitchell EA,Heckstall-Smith EM,Fleming PJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracies of chromogenic agar and the GeneXpert real-time PCR system (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, USA) for admission methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening of 1336 consecutive paediatric intensive care unit patients (1282 evaluable swab results) were determined using enrichment culture a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gray J,Patel M,Turner H,Reynolds F

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of disseminated intravascular clotting (DIC) in the pathogenesis of the bleeding diathesis kwashiorkor was investigated in 22 patients. According to the severity of the clinical and haematological findings, two grades of DIC were observed. A severe grade of DIC was shown in 6 cases (5 fatal) presenting with ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hassanein EA,Tankovsky I

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop and implement an evidence based guideline for the treatment of acute asthma using a metered dose inhaler and spacer combination. METHODS:Defined strategies were used for the development and implementation of a guideline, assessed by a prospective, descriptive, study using notes review, and patient, nur...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Powell CV,Maskell GR,Marks MK,South M,Robertson CF

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Timing of referral to subspecialists may be a major determinant for access to adequate treatment. Kidney transplantation is the preferred modality of renal replacement therapy (RRT) in children. In adults, delayed referral from general physicians to nephrologists reduced access to kidney transplantation. Thi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Boehm M,Winkelmayer WC,Arbeiter K,Mueller T,Aufricht C

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the mid-radius, pre-pubertal asthmatic children had smaller periosteal and endosteal circumferences and thicker cortical shells compared to controls, when assessed by peripheral quantitative computed tomography. Asthmatics had diminished periosteal expansion for muscle size, suggesting that asthma, its treatment, o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Quick JL,Ward KA,Adams JE,Mughal MZ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00