The burden of selected congenital anomalies amenable to surgery in low and middle-income regions: cleft lip and palate, congenital heart anomalies and neural tube defects.

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 32-day-old male infant had hypocalcaemic convulsions associated with asymptomatic maternal hyperparathyroidism. Very low total and ionised serum calcium, increased serum phosphate, and normal serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) and 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25-OHD3) concentrations were found at admission. After treatme...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jacobsen BB,Terslev E,Lund B,Sørensen OH

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the incidence of both neonatal respiratory distress syndrome and neonatal mortality can be reduced by giving corticosteroids to women expected to deliver preterm and by giving surfactant to babies at high risk of developing hyaline membrane disease, we have considered what effects the adoption of one or both o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mugford M,Piercy J,Chalmers I

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phenobarbital (PB), commonly used as the preferred treatment for neonatal seizure, is a drug that requires careful dose adjustments based on therapeutic drug monitoring. It has been reported that PB metabolism was affected by cytochrome P450 (CYP)2C19 polymorphisms in adults requiring dose adjustment. AIM:T...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lee SM,Chung JY,Lee YM,Park MS,Namgung R,Park KI,Lee C

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double blind crossover trial of 20 micrograms intranasal 1-deamino-8-d-arginine vasopressin (DDAVP) versus placebo was carried out in 17 children with intractable enuresis aged between 6 and 13 years who had failed to respond to drugs and an enuresis alarm. Fluid intake was not restricted. There was a significant re...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dimson SB

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA was estimated in the lungs of 80 fetuses and newborn infants varying in gestation from 14 weeks to term. In fetuses of appropriate weight for gestational age total lung DNA increased at a constant rate from about 35 mg at 17 weeks' gestation to 480 mg at term. The lungs of immature fetuses were heavier and c...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wigglesworth JS,Desai R

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simplified guidelines for the emergency care of children have been developed to improve the triage and rapid initiation of appropriate emergency treatments for children presenting to hospitals in developing countries. The guidelines are part of the effort to improve referral level paediatric care within the World Heal...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gove S,Tamburlini G,Molyneux E,Whitesell P,Campbell H

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:Concentrations of chorionic somatomammotrophin (hCS) in maternal plasma at the time of delivery and in placental extracts were determined by radioimmunoassay and related to neonatal growth in 111 normal pregnancies. Mean maternal plasma hCS concentration was lower in association with small-for-dates infants, defined b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Macmillian DR,Hawkins R,Collier RN

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Coventry Consensus in 1998 recommended a single height measurement of all children at school entry or around the age of 5 years and prompt referral of children with height <0.4th centile for further assessment, in order to identify undetected and treatable asymptomatic growth disorders. AIM:To determine...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Banerjee S,Morgan RJ,Rees SA,Latif AH

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pressure (BP) values and the phenomenon of tracking were evaluated in a group of 481 schoolchildren over a nine year period starting at age 6 years. BP values were obtained yearly by taking the mean of two measurements at one visit, measurements were taken by only two observers during the study. For both systoli...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sánchez-Bayle M,Muñoz-Fernández MT,González-Requejo A

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of neonatal jaundice can be made much easier using simple methods that increase the radiant energy in the range 420 to 480 nm. Two groups of infants being treated for physiological jaundice during a period of 6 months were compared. The first group received treatment from two unmodified phototherapy uni...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Modi N,Keay AJ

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop and test patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) for children and young people in a specialist paediatric hospital setting. DESIGN:Six PREMs were developed and tested by children and young people for children and young people aged 8-11, 12-13 and 14-16 years in inpatient and outpatient settin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wray J,Hobden S,Knibbs S,Oldham G

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the prevalence of hypovitaminosis D among healthy adolescent schoolgirls attending an inner city multiethnic girls' school. METHODS:Fifty one (28%) of 182 girls (14 white, 37 non-white; median age 15.3 years, range 14.7-16.6) took part in the study. Biochemical parameters, dietary vitamin D intake, m...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Das G,Crocombe S,McGrath M,Berry JL,Mughal MZ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two girls (a 5 year old and a 21 month old) experiencing mononucleosis syndrome with coincidental human herpesvirus (HHV)-7 and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections are described. One patient had primary HHV-7 infection and reactivated EBV infection. The other had primary HHV-7 and EBV infections. These cases indicated...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chiu HH,Lee CY,Lee PI,Lin KH,Huang LM

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:Hepatomegaly, the presenting feature of type IV glycogen storage disease at 20 months of age, regressed during childhood. The patient remained asymptomatic until 12 years of age when, after an episode of shock, septicaemia, and spontaneous peritonitis, liver transplantation was successfully performed. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dhawan A,Tan KC,Portmann B,Mowat AP

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A boy with the dysmorphic features of Noonan's syndrome and pulmonary valve stenosis who had evidence of hypoparathyroidism and abnormal T lymphocyte numbers in the neonatal period is reported. He had a normal karyotype but molecular analysis revealed a submicroscopic deletion within chromosome 22q11, the region delet...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wilson DI,Britton SB,McKeown C,Kelly D,Cross IE,Strobel S,Scambler PJ

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of testicles in a 3-year-old girl with XY karyotype led to a diagnosis of testicular feminization. Subsequently, however, hypokalaemia, hypertension, and severe prostration during a mild infection suggested adrenal involvement, and investigations showed a 17-alpha-hydroxylase deficiency. Diagnosis of tes...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Heremans GF,Moolenaar AJ,van Gelderen HH

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The number of trips to the tropics taken by children with chronic health disorders (CHDs) is increasing. METHODS:All of the children with CHDs who attended two international vaccination centres in France before travelling to the tropics were included in a prospective, exposed/unexposed study. Each child was...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ducrocq C,Sommet J,Levy D,Trieu TV,Quercia F,Morin L,Belletre X,Koehl B,Sorge F,Alberti C,de Pontual L,Faye A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and eleven children admitted with suspected gastro-oesophageal reflux were studied, with 24 hour oesophageal pH monitoring as the first line of investigation. Barium swallow examination, or oesophagoscopy, or both, were carried out only in children with abnormal pH, who subsequently had a trial of 1-12 mon...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Da Dalt L,Mazzoleni S,Montini G,Donzelli F,Zacchello F

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

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：:Doppler ultrasound measurements of pulmonary blood flow in 20 babies with severe respiratory distress syndrome treated in a randomised controlled trial of surfactant replacement showed that the immediate improvement of oxygenation was not associated with a significant increase in pulmonary blood flow. Reduction in ven...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Halliday HL,McCord FB,McClure BG,Reid MM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with raised intracranial pressure responding to ventriculoperitoneal shunting are described in whom ultrasound failed to show dilated ventricles. The importance of not equating absence of ventricular dilatation with normal pressure and ventricular dilatation with high pressure is emphasised. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pilling DW,Cudmore RE

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the risk of disability from unintentional injury in teenagers and young adults. METHODS:Analyses of data from the National Child Development Study, a follow up study of 98% of all children born in England, Scotland, and Wales in one week in March, 1958. In 1981, 12,537 study participants, 76% of t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Barker M,Power C,Roberts I

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of a protein restricted diet on renal function and growth of children with chronic renal failure. In a multicentre prospective study 56 children (aged 2-18 years) with chronic renal failure were randomly assigned to the protein restricted (0.8-1.1 g/kg/day) or the con...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kist-van Holthe tot Echten JE,Nauta J,Hop WC,de Jong MC,Reitsma-Bierens WC,Ploos van Amstel SL,van Acker KJ,Noordzij CM,Wolff ED

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess psychological and social functioning and health related quality of life and its early determinants in children born with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). DESIGN:Cross-sectional follow-up study. SETTING:Outpatient clinic of a tertiary care hospital. PARTICIPANTS:33 CDH survivors aged 6-16 ye...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Peetsold MG,Huisman J,Hofman VE,Heij HA,Raat H,Gemke RJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If cord blood IgE is used to detect those predisposed to become allergic it is important to define appropriately the normal values for this measurement. A commonly cited cut off point is 1.0 IU/ml. We analysed 5353 cord blood samples for IgE by means of an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. Descriptive statistics of t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kimpen J,Callaert H,Embrechts P,Bosmans E

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three clinically normal sibs were discovered to have type II hyperprolinaemia in a routine serum amino acid screening programme in Sicily. In addition to the basic biochemical features of type II hyperprolinaemia, all 3 children had marked hyperglycinaemia, whereas their parents had both normal blood proline and glyci...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pavone L,Mollica F,Levy HL

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has indicated that children who have received treatment for leukaemia which includes cranial irradiation exhibit deficits in their ability to focus attention. It has been suggested that the use of cranial irradiation may have a role to play in long term sequelae. AIMS:To investigate neurop...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rodgers J,Marckus R,Kearns P,Windebank K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00