Female genital mutilation: what every paediatrician should know.

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：:Thirty six children with typical features of Angelman's syndrome, including global developmental delay, ataxia, episodes of paroxysmal laughter, seizures, and microcephaly were studied. The series included three sibships of three affected sisters, two affected brothers, and two affected sisters, respectively. The faci...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Robb SA,Pohl KR,Baraitser M,Wilson J,Brett EM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fundamental to appropriate nutritional prescription is an understanding of the conditions necessary for growth that include the requirements for energy in health and illness. Energy requirements need to be met by the dietary intake to prevent weight loss. A positive energy balance will result in weight gain. Energy re...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wiskin AE,Davies JH,Wootton SA,Beattie RM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the recent trends in demographic, clinical and microbiological characteristics and outcome of treatment in paediatric cases of tuberculosis. DESIGN:National surveillance study. SETTING:England and Wales. PATIENTS:All children under the age of 16 years reported with tuberculosis to the national ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Abubakar I,Laundy MT,French CE,Shingadia D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 80 children with proved coeliac disease, 2 presented with an associated disease of the distal portion of the large intestine. In one child the family history and the extension, localisation, and characteristics of intestinal lesions made us suspect ulcerative colitis; in the other we made a diagnosis of milk-induce...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ansaldi N,Santini B,Dell'olio D,Levis F

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paediatric early warning scores (PEWS) are widely used as an adjunct to support staff in recognising deterioration in hospitalised children. Relatively little is known about how staff use these systems. OBJECTIVE:To examine the completeness and accuracy of PEWS recording in hospitalised children in a tertia...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chapman SM,Oulton K,Peters MJ,Wray J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altogether 38 postpubertal children with coeliac disease were rebiopsied. Mucosal abnormality in nine (24%) of them indicated poor adherence to the diet. Gluten challenge with a diet containing a normal amount of gluten was performed in those 29 patients with a normal mucosa. During challenge, rebiopsy was done when r...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mäki M,Lähdeaho ML,Hällström O,Viander M,Visakorpi JK

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine whether the British 1990 growth charts are valid for cross sectional and longitudinal use in primary school children. METHODS:A total of 694 children aged 7-10 years from 10 Leeds primary schools were weighed and measured annually over three years by an expert auxologist. SD scores were calculated us...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rudolf MC,Cole TJ,Krom AJ,Sahota P,Walker J

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the prevalence of depression in children with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and investigate the relationship between depression in CFS/ME and clinical symptoms such as fatigue, disability, pain and school attendance. DESIGN:Cross-sectional survey data using the Hos...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bould H,Collin SM,Lewis G,Rimes K,Crawley E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A paucity of evidence regarding the natural history of congenital pulmonary airway malformations (CPAMs) and pulmonary sequestration (PS) has resulted in a divergence in management strategy of asymptomatic cases. METHODS:We describe the long-term clinical course of 119 children diagnosed with these lesions ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cook J,Chitty LS,De Coppi P,Ashworth M,Wallis C

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parent reported pulse rates could provide important information on a child's clinical condition. The agreement between the parent's measurement of their child's pulse and a pulse oximeter was assessed following a brief educational intervention. Parents can be taught to measure the pulse of school age children, but hav...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： White J,Shepperd S,Yudkin P,Harnden A,Mant D

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The isolated finding of an unexplained chronic subdural haematoma in an infant may suggest non-accidental head injury (NAHI). The authors report a previously undescribed cause of multifocal chronic subdural haematoma in infancy which could result in a misdiagnosis of previous NAHI. METHODS:Two infants, aged...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Edwards RJ,Allport TD,Stoodley NG,O'Callaghan F,Lock RJ,Carter MR,Ramanan AV

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerns have been expressed in recent years about the decline in children's clinical and biomedical research in the UK, and in the paediatric academic workforce. Here I consider the extent to which these concerns are justified, the sweeping changes that have taken place in research funding, governance and organisatio...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Modi N

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative morphological assessment was carried out of the cellularity and staining properties of the cells of the layers of the human cerebellar cortex, both in the normal child and in 41 children suffering from a series of disorders including mental retardation. A computerized image analyser and highly standardi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gadson DR,Emery JL

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gross neuropathy consequent upon selective malabsorption of vitamin B12 was diagnosed in a 6 year old Bangladeshi girl brought to Great Britain for further investigation of an unexplained illness of three years' duration. The initial peripheral blood count was normal. Treatment with vitamin B12 has led to substantial ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Conway SP,Gillies DR,Littlewood JM

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Search for evidence supporting target age, level of intervention and target values for low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels in children with familial hypercholesterolemia. DESIGN:Systematic review and meta-analysis. PubMed, Medline, CINAHL and Cochrane Reviews databases from 1966 to 2007 were sea...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lebenthal Y,Horvath A,Dziechciarz P,Szajewska H,Shamir R

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Seventy three preterm infants weighing less than 1500 g or less than 32 weeks' gestation, or both, were allocated randomly to treatment (fresh frozen plasma 10 ml/kg on admission and at 24 hours of age) or control groups. Fifteen (41%) out of 37 control patients sustained intraventricular haemorrhage compared with fiv...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Beverley DW,Pitts-Tucker TJ,Congdon PJ,Arthur RJ,Tate G

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To estimate the minimum incidence of congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) and severe microcephaly in Canada and describe key clinical, epidemiological, aetiological and outcome features of these conditions. METHODS:Two separate national surveillance studies were conducted on CZS and severe microcephaly using the wel...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morris SK,Farrar DS,Miller SP,Ofner M,Bitnun A,Nelson CRM,Shevell M,Moore AM,Tataryn J,Evans JA,Zipursky AR,Moore Hepburn C

更新日期：2021-01-08 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：:The partial androgen insensitivity syndrome occurs in 46,XY subjects with phenotypes ranging from perineoscrotal hypospadias with cryptorchidism and micropenis (mild undervirilisation) to clitoromegaly and partial labial fusion (marked undervirilisation). Within an affected family, wide variation in the degree of geni...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Batch JA,Davies HR,Evans BA,Hughes IA,Patterson MN

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate gastric emptying in girls with Turner's syndrome to detect if gastrointestinal motor dysfunction was present. SUBJECTS:Thirteen girls (mean age 8.1 years) with Turner's syndrome, seven girls with familial short stature (6.1 years), and eight control girls (7.6 years). METHODS:Gastric emptying studies ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Staiano A,Salerno M,Di Maio S,Marsullo G,Marino A,Concolino D,Strisciuglio P

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this overview, I have attempted to highlight the problems of medical care, particularly paediatric care, in Hungary and to describe the changing nature of its organisation and financing. We hope that through our efforts we can surmount these difficulties, improve the quality of medical care in our country, and crea...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Schuler D

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To characterise prescribing patterns of antidepressants (ATDs) to children and adolescents aged < or =18 years in the UK. METHODS:Subjects issued at least one ATD prescription between 1 January 1992 and 31 December 2001 were identified from the UK General Practice Research Database. Prescribing patterns, annual p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Murray ML,de Vries CS,Wong IC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recorded the respiratory history by questionnaire in a 7 year old cohort of children whose birth weight was under 2000 g and an unselected reference group of local schoolchildren of the same age. Complete data were obtained in 121 low birthweight children (90% of those studied): 62 who had no neonatal respiratory i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chan KN,Elliman A,Bryan E,Silverman M

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased incidence of E. coli sepsis has been observed in neonates given intramuscular iron-dextran for prevention of iron deficiency. Mechanisms for this apparent effect on susceptibility to infection were investigated by comparing phagocytic and antibacterial functions in paired samples of venous blood from 7 in...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Becroft DM,Dix MR,Farmer K

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 25 year period, 31 asthmatic children received artificial ventilation for acute asthma at Alder Hey Children's Hospital on 48 occasions. Altogether 47 episodes occurred from 1971-89, with no decline in the number of episodes per year (mean 2.5) over this period. Eight children died during intermittent positive ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Seddon PC,Heaf DP

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A preterm infant with classic phenylketonuria required rather less than 90 mg/kg of phenylalanine and between 270 and 290 mg/kg tyrosine daily to achieve a rate of weight gain of around 20 g/kg per day. Using Lofenalac as the low phenylalanine food, the intake of tyrosine, an essential amino acid for patients with phe...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shortland D,Smith I,Francis DE,Ersser R,Wolff OH

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pneumocystis carinii is an important pathogen in immunodeficiency but may be an unrecognised cause of respiratory compromise. OBJECTIVES:To ascertain the incidence of P carinii pneumonia (PCP) at presentation of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), whether it had been diagnosed, and the effect of treatm...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Berrington JE,Flood TJ,Abinun M,Galloway A,Cant AJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare the effectiveness of short course (2-4 days) with standard duration oral antibiotic treatment (7-14 days) for urinary tract infection (UTI). METHODS:Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials using a random effects model. Ten trials were eligible, involving 652 children with lower tract UTI recruite...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Michael M,Hodson EM,Craig JC,Martin S,Moyer VA

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00