An overview of respiratory problems in children with Down's syndrome.

abstract：:An epidemiological study of disease in a geographically identified population of 250 children is reported. 22% had not seen their general practitioner (GP) at all in the past year, while 20% had seen him four times or more. The vast majority of these visits were because of an infective illness; and developmental and b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bax M,Hart H

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A subnormal cortisol response (30 min level (C30min)<550 nmol/L) to synthetic adrenocorticotrophic hormone/Synacthen test (SDST) in all infants does not necessarily indicate underlying or persistent hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis pathology. METHODS:We retrospectively evaluated the diagnoses and outcome...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tan TSE,Manfredonia C,Kumar R,Jones J,O'Shea E,Padidela R,Skae M,Ehtisham S,Ivison F,Tetlow L,Clayton PE,Banerjee I,Patel L

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In acute paediatrics, overtreatment and overdiagnosis is encountered in threshold and developed countries. The reason for overtreatment may be similar in the two settings, namely the mere availability of invasive procedures, which may lead to their inappropriate use. Physiological healing processes should be integrate...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Frey B

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:This paper reviews the diagnostic features of cluster headache-like disorder and describes its presentation in childhood. Case note summaries of patients with this condition are presented in the context of a brief summary of the literature. Four patients (two girls; aged 12 to 15 years) with cluster headache-like diso...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McNabb S,Whitehouse W

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine current use of vitamin K (VK) prophylaxis in newborns and review the efficacy and effectiveness of regimens used. DESIGN:Efficacy and effectiveness calculated using current practice details, data from Southern Ireland and two previous surveys, together with contemporaneous studies of vitamin K d...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Busfield A,McNinch A,Tripp J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spirometric data from 1586 healthy children, who did not smoke, were analysed to examine the effects of overweight as measured by the body mass index (weight/height2) on lung function. Overweight (72 boys, 88 girls) was defined as on or above the 90th percentile weight for height. After having controlled for the confo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fung KP,Lau SP,Chow OK,Lee J,Wong TW

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Risk assessment for venous thromboembolism (VTE) and thromboprophylaxis in those with risk factors is established in adult practice. Evidence to support efficacy and safety of this approach in adolescents is lacking. We aimed to describe thrombotic risk factors and to determine the proportion of potentially p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Biss T,Alikhan R,Payne J,Alamelu J,Williams M,Richards M,Mathias M,Tunstall O,Chalmers E

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The poor prognosis of patients with trisomy 13 has long been accepted and has been ascribed to brain and heart malformations. It has been suggested, however, that the long term survival is better than was previously thought and that cardiac surgery may be justified. This population based study reviews the incidence, a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wyllie JP,Wright MJ,Burn J,Hunter S

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the results of a prospective study in which 120 women who developed hypertension in the last trimester of pregnancy were randomly allocated in double blind manner to atenolol or placebo. The mean duration of treatment was five weeks. The only difference between groups during the neonatal period was in resp...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reynolds B,Butters L,Evans J,Adams T,Rubin PC

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease is a rare form of primary pulmonary hypertension of unknown aetiology. Four cases were diagnosed in young patients. The diagnosis was suspected on the basis of clinical, radiological, echocardiographic, and catheter evidence and confirmed by taking a lung biopsy sample. In all patients...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Justo RN,Dare AJ,Whight CM,Radford DJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:349 Maasai children younger than 6 years old were randomised by alternate household to drink water either left in plastic bottles exposed to sunlight on the roof of the house or kept indoors (control). The trial was run in Maasai by Maasai community elders. Children drinking solar disinfected water had a significantly...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Conroy RM,Meegan ME,Joyce T,McGuigan K,Barnes J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid urbanisation in the 20th century has been accompanied by the development of slums. Nearly one-third of the world's population and more than 60% of urban populations in the least developed countries live in slums, including hundreds of millions of children. Slums are areas of broad social and health disadvantage ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Unger A

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of thyroid disease in 134 children, adolescents, and young adults with diabetes mellitus beginning in childhood is described. Clustering of a family history of thyroid disease and the presence of thyrogastric antibodies in some patients supports the concept of familial autoimmunity. In 4 children a diag...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Court S,Parkin JM

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide the first estimate of the cost-effectiveness of financial incentive for breastfeeding intervention compared with usual care. DESIGN:Within-cluster ('ward'-level) randomised controlled trial cost-effectiveness analysis (trial registration number ISRCTN44898617). SETTING:Five local authority distri...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Anokye N,Coyle K,Relton C,Walters S,Strong M,Fox-Rushby J

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary lithogenic and inhibitory factors were studied in 27 preterm infants; 16 had total parenteral nutrition (TPN) and 11 had breastmilk with an additional glucose-sodium chloride infusion. Urines were collected for 24 hours on day 2 (period A), day 3 (B), and once between days 4 and 10 (C). Urinary calcium oxalate...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hoppe B,Hesse A,Neuhaus T,Fanconi S,Forster I,Blau N,Leumann E

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is associated with prone sleeping, and circulatory failure has been hypothesised to be a factor in the fatal event. We aimed to determine the effect of prone sleeping on heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) control over the first 6 months of life. SUBJECTS:Term infants ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Yiallourou SR,Walker AM,Horne RS

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of abnormal cardiac function to hypotension and metabolic acidosis, which affect approximately 40% of ventilated very low birthweight infants in the first 24 hours after birth was assessed using M mode, two dimensional, and Doppler echocardiography in 75 very low birthweight infants during the first f...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gill AB,Weindling AM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative biochemical criteria for lung growth and maturation were compared with the histological appearances in hypoplastic lungs from 20 fetuses and newborn infants. Cases associated with oligohydramnios showed a characteristic series of changes with narrow airways, retardation of epithelial and interstitial grow...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wigglesworth JS,Desai R,Guerrini P

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female genital mutilation (FGM) is almost always performed on children and consequently paediatricians should have a central role in the detection and prevention of FGM. FGM has no health benefits and can cause lifelong damage to physical and psychological health. Extensive migration of FGM practising communities mean...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Creighton SM,Hodes D

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) raises issues of considerable importance to medical practitioners and paediatricians in particular. The case concerns the parental right to withhold consent to medical intervention that doctors believe to be necessary in a child's best interests. The dram...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elias-Jones AC,Samanta J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that because of vascular interchange between the monozygous twins vascular disruptions from a deceased cotwin with disseminated intravascular coagulation causes embolisation in the surviving twin. This study reports six cases in which all the surviving monozygous twins had central nervous system ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Szymonowicz W,Preston H,Yu VY

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to determine whether or not the probiotic Lactobacillus GG can colonise the immature bowel of premature infants and if so, does colonisation result in a reduction of the size of the bowel reservoir of nosocomial pathogens such as enterobacteriaceae, enterococci, yeasts or staphylococc...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Millar MR,Bacon C,Smith SL,Walker V,Hall MA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic rhythms were studied over 24 hours in eight adolescent diabetic patients during treatment with porcine insulin and after transfer to human insulin. Despite an increase in dose with human insulin no significant changes were found in fasting blood glucose, 24h mean blood glucose, or glycosylated haemoglobin co...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hocking MD,Crase J,Rayner PH,Nattrass M

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Safe and effective paediatric pharmacotherapy requires careful evaluation of the type of drug substance, the necessary dose and the age-appropriateness of the formulation. Generally, the younger the child, the more the attention that is required. For decades, there has been a general lack of (authorised) formulations ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： van Riet-Nales DA,Schobben AF,Vromans H,Egberts TC,Rademaker CM

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:24 Hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) was performed to provide data on the normal daily blood pressure of healthy schoolchildren and on patients with hypertension. The subjects studied were 123 healthy schoolchildren with a mean (SD) age of 12.5 (1.6) years (range 9.5-14.5 years), 24 children with border...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reusz GS,Hóbor M,Tulassay T,Sallay P,Miltényi M

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperatures of 587 children were taken before and after diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis (DTP) or diphtheria/tetanus (DT) vaccine. Only slight temperature increases were found but these were notably more frequent after plain than adsorbed DTP vaccine preparations and the frequency increased with each successive dose....

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Waight PA,Pollock TM,Miller E,Coleman EM

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 10 children with cystic fibrosis and persisting steatorrhoea, supplementation with taurine (30-40 mg/kg/day) was given for two months as an adjunct to the usual pancreatic enzyme treatment. A three day fat and energy balance was performed in patients with cystic fibrosis, before and after the supplementation, and i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： De Curtis M,Santamaria F,Ercolini P,Vittoria L,De Ritis G,Garofalo V,Ciccimarra F

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：AIMS:To investigate the differences in perception of quality of life between parents of chronically ill children and paediatricians at diagnosis and follow up. Quality of life was assessed using the (HUI3). METHODS:Longitudinal study (July 1999-January 2002) of 37 paediatricians and 181 parents of patients (children a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Janse AJ,Sinnema G,Uiterwaal CS,Kimpen JL,Gemke RJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00