Neonatal urological ultrasound: diagnostic inaccuracies and pitfalls.

abstract：:The introduction of enteric coated pancreatic enzyme supplements in the early 1980s was undoubtedly one of the major advances in the care of children with cystic fibrosis. Further refinements in the presentation of these preparations inevitably followed, to improve patient acceptability and compliance. The emergence o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smyth RL

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight infants with severe hyperosmolar dehydration and hypernatraemia were treated, using three regimens of intravenous fluids: A. 1/2 normal saline, given fast; B.1/2 normal saline given slowly; C. 1/5 normal saline. 28 of the infants were studied in a treatment trial, and it is concluded tha 0-18% saline in 4...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Banister A,Matin-Siddiqi SA,Hatcher GW

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare the respiratory health and function at 8 to 9 years of age of a total population based cohort of 300 very low birthweight (VLBW) children with that of two classroom controls (n = 590) matched for age and sex. STUDY DESIGN:Cohort study with controls. SETTING:Schools throughout Scotland. RESULTS:The VL...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McLeod A,Ross P,Mitchell S,Tay D,Hunter L,Hall A,Paton J,Mutch L

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympathetic function was studied in 101 diabetic children and 102 age and sex matched control children, as part of a longitudinal study of the evolution of microvascular disease in the population of diabetic children and adolescents in Avon County. The median (range) age of the diabetic population was 13.5 (6.0-17.2) ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Karavanaki K,Davies AG,Hunt LP,Morgan MH,Baum JD

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubella vaccination was offered to a cohort of schoolgirls 14 years and over whose immune state was unknown. This increased the percentage vaccinated or known to be immune from 86% to 90%. It is recommended that rubella vaccination should be offered to girls until they leave school at 16 years of age. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hodes DT

更新日期：1988-08-01 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：:The concentration of zinc in the hair of 219 schoolchildren aged between 10 and 11 years was measured and related to height, weight, estimates of consumption of zinc-rich foods, number of children living at home, and rank in family. None of the correlation coefficients between hair zinc and the other variables was sig...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Heinersdorff N,Taylor TG

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Lung function measurements with and without a disposable bacterial filter were compared in 60 children. Although statistically significant, the reduction of lung function measurements caused by using bacterial filters was small and clinically irrelevant (2-4% of predicted for forced expiratory volume in one second and...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kamps AW,Vermeer K,Roorda RJ,Brand PL

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To elucidate the current situation of randomised drug trials involving the paediatric population. METHODS:Systematic review of paediatric randomised controlled trials of medicinal products published in 2007. Three major databases were searched with validated search strategies; Medline, Embase and Cochrane Ce...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Aripin KN,Choonara I,Sammons HM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of vesicoureteric reflex (VUR) and renal scarring was studied in 94 children (188 kidneys) with proved urinary tract infection in a district general hospital. There were 61 girls and 33 boys, with nine girls and 17 boys aged less than 1 year, 31 girls and nine boys aged between 1 and 5 years, the rema...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gleeson FV,Gordon I

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：:A child with idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis for three years required three monthly transfusions. Circulating avian, gliadin, and reticulin antibodies suggested the diagnosis of gluten enteropathy, and jejunal biopsy showed subtotal villous atrophy. During 15 months on a gluten free diet his growth and behaviour i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reading R,Watson JG,Platt JW,Bird AG

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven very low birthweight babies being ventilated for respiratory problems during the first week of life developed air leaks on 22 occasions. On 16 out of 19 occasions the infants showed increases in urinary excretion of vasopressin after these events and on 10 occasions out of 13 there was a rise in the plasma argi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McIntosh N,Prakash P,Smith A

更新日期：1990-11-01 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：:The urinary citrate/creatinine ratio was evaluated in 25 children with idiopathic calcium urolithiasis and 24 controls. The mean (SD) urinary citrate/creatinine ratio in controls and patients was 0.510 (0.205) and 0.181 (0.076), respectively, a statistically significant difference. In neither group was there a relatio...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Akçay T,Konukoğlu D,Celik C

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five cases are reported of spontaneous remission of chronic childhood thrombocytopenia four or more years after diagnosis. Other than typical features of chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura there were no obvious markers predictive of late remission, although a slow progressive recovery was common to four of th...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tait RC,Evans DI

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kwashiorkor and marasmus, collectively termed severe acute malnutrition (SAM), account for at least 10% of all deaths among children under 5 years of age worldwide, virtually all of them in low-income and middle-income countries. A number of risk factors, including seasonal food insecurity, environmental enteropathy, ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Trehan I,Manary MJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:A girl was born to a mother who had undergone treatment for epilepsy with carbamazepine during pregnancy. The infant had dysmorphic features and was physically and mentally retarded. We consider that the malformations were the result of the maternal treatment with carbamazepine. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Vestermark V,Vestermark S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-accidental injury should be suspected and excluded in any infant found to have intracranial and retinal haemorrhage of unknown aetiology. This can be a sensitive issue for both medical staff and parents. We present a case in which the underlying cause of intracranial and retinal haemorrhage was fibromuscular dyspl...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Currie AD,Bentley CR,Bloom PA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the provision of UK paediatric and adolescent diabetes services and examine changes in service delivery since 2002. METHOD:Questionnaires were sent to the lead paediatric consultant from all paediatric and adolescent diabetes services (n=205). Questions were based on National Institute for Health and Cli...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gosden C,Edge JA,Holt RI,James J,Turner B,Winocour P,Walton C,Nagi D,Williams R,Matyka K

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a child who presented with a progressive neurological disorder associated with hypertension and paroxysms of irritability and sweating in whom an abnormality of catecholamine metabolism or excretion was demonstrated. An elder sister died at the age of 2 1/2 years with similar clinical symptoms but without bl...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Young I,Hosking GP

更新日期：1978-08-01 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：AIM:To document the impact that rapid increases in HIV infection in hospitalised children at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital has had on in-hospital mortality. METHODS:Hospital discharge summaries from January 1992 to the end of 1996 were reviewed. RESULTS:There were 20 733 admissions in the five year period; 7985 (39...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Zwi K,Pettifor J,Soderlund N,Meyers T

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By means of a simple questionnaire and measurements of height, weight, and peak expiratory flow rates 3061 children from city and rural populations were studied. Children with asthma or other respiratory diseases had lower peak expiratory flow rates, and younger children living in rural areas had higher rates. In 2828...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Carson JW,Hoey H,Taylor MR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the growth patterns of breast fed and formula fed Italian infants in the first 12 months of life using World Health Organisation (WHO) reference data. METHODS:The growth patterns of 73 breast fed infants (36 male, 37 female) and 65 formula fed infants (35 male, 30 female) were compared. Solid foods were...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Agostoni C,Grandi F,Giannì ML,Silano M,Torcoletti M,Giovannini M,Riva E

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:There are few standardised questionnaires for the assessment of respiratory symptoms in preschool children. We have developed and tested the short-term repeatability of a postal questionnaire on respiratory symptoms for 1-year-old children. METHODS:A newly developed postal questionnaire for the ass...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Strippoli MP,Silverman M,Michel G,Kuehni CE

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two newborn infants, male (A) and female (B), with lethal hyperammonaemia are described in the same family. In both, symptoms started on the second day of life. Lethargy and hypotonia were the most prominent initial findings and were followed by convulsions and coma. In both, blood ammonia levels rose to 570 mumol/u (...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mantagos S,Tsagaraki S,Burgess EA,Oberholzer V,Palmer T,Sacks J,Baibas S,Valaes T

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To pilot a novel approach to providing pharmaceutical care to paediatric inpatients using structured referral and assessment tools. Using standardised referral criteria to ensure patients are assessed by appropriately skilled pharmacists. METHOD:Three wards of varying acuity and specialism were selected in a tert...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mott A,Kafka S,Sutherland A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00