Variation in Preoperative Testing and Antireflux Surgery in Infants.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Past studies have documented the acute benefits of cardiac rehabilitation in children with congenital heart disease. It is not known whether these benefits persist. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Fifteen patients, ages 8 to 17 years, with complex congenital heart disease, whose exercise function immediately after a 12...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Rhodes J,Curran TJ,Camil L,Rabideau N,Fulton DR,Gauthier NS,Gauvreau K,Jenkins KJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To improve health outcomes of children, the US Maternal and Child Health Bureau has recommended more effective organization of preventive services within primary care practices and more coordination between practices and community-based agencies. However, applying these recommendations in communities is chall...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Margolis PA,Stevens R,Bordley WC,Stuart J,Harlan C,Keyes-Elstein L,Wisseh S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of tone and reflexes from 25 weeks postmenstrual age (gestational age plus chronologic age) to term in a population of 42 surviving infants is described. The infants were born in 1983 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, had birth weights less than 1300 g, were examined weekly until neonatal intensive care uni...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Allen MC,Capute AJ

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Henoch-Schonlein purpura is a multisystem vasculitis that primarily affects children. Characteristic symptoms include purpura of the lower extremities and buttocks, abdominal pain, arthralgias, and hematuria. Gastrointestinal bleeding occurs in approximately 50% of children and, although often self-limiting, can be si...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Preud'Homme DL,Michail S,Hodges C,Milliken T,Mezoff AG

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Depression, impulsivity, and aggression during adolescence have been associated with both adoption and suicidal behavior. Studies of adopted adults suggest that impulsivity, even more than depression, may be an inherited factor that mediates suicidal behavior. However, the association between adoption and ado...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Slap G,Goodman E,Huang B

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess growth retardation in male adolescent patients who have a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa (AN) and the effect of weight restoration on catch-up growth. METHODS:Medical charts of all male adolescent AN patients (n = 12) who were admitted to the Pediatric Psychosomatic Department at the Sheba Medical C...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Modan-Moses D,Yaroslavsky A,Novikov I,Segev S,Toledano A,Miterany E,Stein D

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental screening tests are in widespread use, but few reliable and valid tests are available. The most frequently used screening instrument for detecting young children who are at risk for developmental delays is the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST). Although the DDST has excellent test specificity, o...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Meisels SJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample of girls and boys with attention deficit disorder (ADD) were examined for within-group sex differences and compared with control boys and girls on historical, behavioral, and cognitive characteristics. Profiles of essential and secondary features of ADD support the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Berry CA,Shaywitz SE,Shaywitz BA

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often difficult to measure cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure in children. CSF flow through a spinal needle is described by the equation: Flow = pressure/(needle constant x relative viscosity). Thus, CSF flow rate during lumbar puncture can be used to estimate CSF pressure. Because the viscosity of CSF is approx...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Ellis RW 3rd,Strauss LC,Wiley JM,Killmond TM,Ellis RW Jr

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This population-based study investigated the psychological problems associated with daytime wetting in children. METHODS:A sample of 8213 children (age range: 7 years 6 months to 9 years 3 months) who were enrolled in the population-based Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children participated in this s...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Joinson C,Heron J,von Gontard A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there have been great gains in the prevention of pediatric HIV infection and provision of antiretroviral therapy for children with HIV infection in resource-rich countries, many barriers remain to scaling up HIV prevention and treatment for children in resource-limited areas of the world. Appropriate testing ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric AIDS, Section on International Child Health.,Havens PL,Gibb DM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary: (1) Colestipol therapy plus diet reduced total cholesterol 19 +/- 3% in 11 hypercholesterolemic children after two months and 13 +/- 5% after two years in five children. (2) Diet therapy did not significantly reduce serum concentration of any of the fat-soluble vitamins or folate. (3) During 24 months of c...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Schwarz KB,Goldstein PD,Witztum JL,Schonfeld G

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Severe neonatal jaundice is a common clinical manifestation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) deficiency and the most difficult to manage; kernicterus is not an uncommon outcome. We assessed in healthy, direct Coombs test-negative Greek newborns of >/=38 weeks' gestational age 1) the current burd...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kappas A,Drummond GS,Valaes T

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our purpose with this work was to examine the relationship between negative comments about weight, shape, and eating and social adjustment, social support, self-esteem, and perceived childhood abuse and neglect. METHODS:A retrospective study was conducted with 455 college women with high weight and shape con...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Taylor CB,Bryson S,Celio Doyle AA,Luce KH,Cunning D,Abascal LB,Rockwell R,Field AE,Striegel-Moore R,Winzelberg AJ,Wilfley DE

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary type V hyperlipoproteinemia was identified in two preadolescent children. The propositus (kindred N) was a 10-year-old girl with severely creamy plasma, lipemia retinalis, hypertriglyceridemia (triglyceridelevel, 6,800 mg/100 ml), and ypercholesterolemia (cholesterol level, 490 mg/100 ml). Her parents and an 8...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kwiterovich PO Jr,Farah JR,Brown WV,Bachorik PS,Baylin SB,Neill CA

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 6-year-old boy who presented with massive hemolysis, shock, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, and acute renal failure after loxosceles envenomation. In this patient, plasma exchange therapy (PEX) successfully cleared the plasma from an initial hemolytic index of 2000 (equivalent to 2 g/dL hemoglob...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Said A,Hmiel P,Goldsmith M,Dietzen D,Hartman ME

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed initiation of proper therapy for infants with primary infantile glaucoma results in an unnecessarily poor outcome. In an effort to understand why some infants and children had more advanced disease than others, researchers reviewed the records of 24 consecutive infants and children with this problem. The prese...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Seidman DJ,Nelson LB,Calhoun JH,Spaeth GL,Harley RD

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A healthy 14-year-old presented to an emergency department in Alaska, complaining of shortness of breath, chest pain, and 72 hours of malaise and headache. On admission, her blood pressure was 80/50 mm Hg, and she had cool extremities. Electrocardiography revealed wide-complex ventricular tachycardia. She underwent sy...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： McMullan DM

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To verify and determine the cause of an increase in the referral of infants with plagiocephaly without synostosis (PWS) to a single tertiary craniofacial center. DESIGN:A chart review was performed for 269 infants with a diagnosis of PWS who presented to a single tertiary craniofacial center between 1979 and...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kane AA,Mitchell LE,Craven KP,Marsh JL

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate adolescent vaccination in New York City, we assessed tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap), meningococcal conjugate (MCV4), and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake, vaccine co-administration, and catch-up coverage over time. METHODS:We analyzed data from the Citywide Immun...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Sull M,Eavey J,Papadouka V,Mandell R,Hansen MA,Zucker JR

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cells of the mononuclear phagocyte system are critical elements in host defense. They are essential to many specific immune processes in addition to their well-recognized role in nonspecific resistance. In this report we describe studies of the influence of the maturation of this system of cells on the capacity of...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Blaese RM,Poplack DG,Muchmore AV

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trismus refers to any condition inducing limited mouth opening and may present as a result of acquired or congenital pathology. We present the case of a newborn who presented with severe, congenital trismus due to brainstem dysgenesis. We describe the course of his investigations, and a multidisciplinary approach to t...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hong CJ,Caulley L,Kohlert S,Graham GE,McMillan HJ,Michaud J,Vaccani JP

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A prospective study was performed to assess the relationship between the appearance of cerebral MRI at term and the cognitive functioning at 9 years old in very preterm born infants. METHODS:Seventy-six very preterm born infants (birth weight <1500 g or gestational age ≤32 weeks) obtained cerebral MRI at ter...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Iwata S,Nakamura T,Hizume E,Kihara H,Takashima S,Matsuishi T,Iwata O

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Medical emergency teams (METs) can reduce adverse events in hospitalized children. We aimed to model the financial costs and benefits of operating an MET and determine the annual reduction in critical deterioration (CD) events required to offset MET costs. METHODS:We performed a single-center cohort study b...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bonafide CP,Localio AR,Song L,Roberts KE,Nadkarni VM,Priestley M,Paine CW,Zander M,Lutts M,Brady PW,Keren R

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:An early-onset sepsis (EOS) risk calculator tool to guide evaluation and treatment of infants at risk for sepsis has reduced antibiotic use without increased adverse outcomes. We performed an electronic health record (EHR)-driven quality improvement intervention to increase calculator use for ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Stipelman CH,Smith ER,Diaz-Ochu M,Spackman J,Stoddard G,Kawamoto K,Shakib JH

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this work was to investigate the association between infections in the first 2 years and subsequent diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders. METHODS:We conducted a case-control study among children born at Kaiser Permanente Northern California from 1995 to 1999. Case subjects (n = 403) were chi...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Rosen NJ,Yoshida CK,Croen LA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report an infant who had herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis and sustained severe bilateral damage to the posterior frontal lobes, postcentral gyri, and the thalami despite intravenous acyclovir treatment. At 7 months of age, the patient developed infantile spasms and was treated with corticotropin injecti...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bonkowsky JL,Filloux FM,Byington CL

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This report is an update of the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) 2006 recommendation on screening for speech and language delay in preschool-aged children. METHODS:The USPSTF reviewed the evidence on screening for speech and language delay and disorders in children aged 5 years or younger, includi...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Siu AL,US Preventive Services Task Force.

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory failure secondary to surfactant deficiency is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low birth weight immature infants. Surfactant therapy substantially reduces mortality and respiratory morbidity for this population. The statement summarizes the indications for surfactant replacement therapy. Because...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors：

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Tuberculosis (TB) control programs have been less successful among children than among adults in the United States. Between 1992 and 1997, the rate of decline of TB cases among 0- to 14-year-old children was less than the rate of decline among any other age group of US-born persons. Because of the higher prev...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Heymann SJ,Brewer TF,Wilson ME,Colditz GA,Fineberg HV

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00