Children with chronic health disorders travelling to the tropics: a prospective observational study.

abstract：:The outcome of 12 children with classical maple syrup urine disease is reviewed. All patients presented in the neonatal period at ages varying from 5 to 21 (median 8) days. The time taken to make the diagnosis ranged from 1 day to longer than 9 months (median 7 days). Each survived his initial illness but 3 died later...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Naughten ER,Jenkins J,Francis DE,Leonard JV

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five cases of serious injuries to children wearing superhero costumes, involving extreme risk-taking behaviour, are presented here. Although children have always displayed behaviour seemingly unwise to the adult eye, the advent of superhero role models can give unrealistic expectations to the child, which may lead to ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Davies P,Surridge J,Hole L,Munro-Davies L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate different methods of examination of the bowel in suspected inflammatory bowel disease. DESIGN:Prospective investigation of all children over a three year period with suspected inflammatory bowel disease. A technetium-99m-HMPAO labelled white cell scan (Tc-WCS), barium follow through examination (...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jobling JC,Lindley KJ,Yousef Y,Gordon I,Milla PJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To obtain information about the health and well being of 108 boys six years after their involvement with the same paedophile. METHODS:Case-control study of the health records of 93 male victims of a major episode of school based child sexual abuse and 93 matched controls. Interviews with a sample of their general...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Price L,Maddocks A,Davies S,Griffiths L

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Use next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology to improve our diagnostic yield in patients with suspected genetic disorders in the Asian setting. DESIGN:A diagnostic study conducted between 2014 and 2019 (and ongoing) under the Singapore Undiagnosed Disease Program. Date of last analysis was 1 July 2019. S...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bhatia NS,Lim JY,Bonnard C,Kuan JL,Brett M,Wei H,Cham B,Chin H,Bosso-Lefevre C,Dharuman P,Escande-Beillard N,Devasia AG,Goh CYJ,Kam S,Liew WK,Liew WK,Lin G,Jain K,Ng AY,Subramanian D,Xie M,Tan YM,Tawari NR,T

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IgG subclass specific immune response against pneumococcal type 3 polysaccharide antigen before and after immunisation in healthy children and children with recurrent bronchitis was studied. Recurrent bronchitis was defined as three or more episodes a year, during at least two consecutive years, of bronchopulmonar...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Baets F,Pauwels R,Schramme I,Leroy J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vanessa is a 34-year-old lawyer married to a police officer. Her first baby was born after a perfect pregnancy and labour until fetal distress necessitated an easy Ventouse extraction late in the second stage. Baby F had normal Apgar scores and weighed 2920 g. This paper records a conversation between Vaness...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Harris V,Hall D

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:The eating habits and attitudes concerning body shape and weight among 26 mothers of children with non-organic failure to thrive (the index group) were studied using the eating disorder examination. They were compared with equivalent data on 26 individually matched women who participated in a large community survey. T...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McCann JB,Stein A,Fairburn CG,Dunger DB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with severe hypertension who had a nephroblastoma which was secreting active renin is described. Nephroblastoma must be included in the differential diagnosis of hypertension associated with increased renin concentrations, even in the absence of an abdominal mass. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Khan AB,Carachi R,Leckie BJ,Lindop GB

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine whether delayed capillary refill time (>3 seconds) is a useful prognostic indicator in Kenyan children admitted to hospital. METHODS:A total of 4160 children admitted to Kilifi District Hospital with malaria, malarial anaemia, acute respiratory tract infection (ARI), severe anaemia (haemoglobin <50 g...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pamba A,Maitland K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine evolution of the physical characteristics of Marfan's syndrome throughout childhood. METHODS:40 children were ascertained during the development of a regional register for Marfan's syndrome. Evolution of the clinical characteristics was determined by repeat evaluation of 10 patients with sporadic Marfan...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lipscomb KJ,Clayton-Smith J,Harris R

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:(1) To determine the prevalence of cough, wheeze, and breathlessness, both as single symptoms and in combination, in primary schoolchildren and their relation to doctor diagnosed asthma. (2) To identify in areas with different levels of dust pollution whether questionnaire reported 'cough alone' (without whe...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kelly YJ,Brabin BJ,Milligan PJ,Reid JA,Heaf D,Pearson MG

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the accuracy of a low cost, spring calibrated, hand held scale in classifying newborns into three weight categories (> or =2500 g, 2000-2499 g, <2000 g). METHODS:The test device was compared to a gold standard digital baby scale with precision to 2 g. In Sarlahi district, Nepal, 1890 newborns were el...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mullany LC,Darmstadt GL,Coffey P,Khatry SK,LeClerq SC,Tielsch JM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk factors for mortality were analysed in a consecutive group of 1158 children presenting to the Aga Khan University Medical Center, Karachi, with multidrug resistant typhoid fever that had been proved on culture. There were 19 deaths, representing an overall case fatality rate of 1.6%. Multidrug resistant typho...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bhutta ZA

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:Serial small intestinal biopsies related to withdrawal and challenge with cows' milk are described in 5 infants with cows' milk protein intolerenace. On the basis of these serial observations the existence of a cows' milk-sensitive enteropathy in infancy is clearly established. The cows' milk-sensitive mucosal lesion ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Walker-Smith J,Harrison M,Kilby A,Phillips A,France N

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether there is evidence of immunological responses in infants with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis by measuring inflammatory mediators in peripheral blood and, if found, whether these related to the severity of illness. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Blood was taken from 94 children wit...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smyth RL,Fletcher JN,Thomas HM,Hart CA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair growth measurements are a sensitive indicator of nutrition and we have assessed their value in the perinatal period. The proportion of growing roots and their diameter were studied at birth in 114 babies and repeated 3 weeks later in 29 low birthweight babies. Intrauterine malnutrition resulted in thinner roots b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Berger HM,King J,Doughty S,Wharton BA

更新日期：1978-04-01 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：: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:Although antibiotics are recommended for the primary care management of community-acquired pneumonia, a recent UK study reported that most children admitted to hospital had not received antibiotics. OBJECTIVE:To describe primary care antibiotic use for children subsequently hospitalised with community-acqui...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Grant CC,Harnden A,Mant D,Emery D,Coster G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9 month old boy presented with acute respiratory distress and was found to have a left pleural effusion. The chylous nature of the effusion, multiple bony lytic lesions, and splenic cysts lead to the diagnosis of congenital lymphangiomatosis with chylothorax. Surgical intervention including pleurectomy was required ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dunkelman H,Sharief N,Berman L,Ninan T

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the prevalence of nasopharyngeal (NP) carriage of pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) and describe the antibiotic resistance patterns and serotypes in young children attending group day care in London. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS:Cross-sectional survey of attendees at a sample of registered child day...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Roche A,Heath PT,Sharland M,Strachan D,Breathnach A,Haigh J,Young Y

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:Hypoglycaemia has long been recognised as a feature of the failure of metabolic adaptation in infants who are small for gestational age (SGA). This study examined the process of metabolic adaptation by measuring, longitudinally, the concentrations of metabolic fuels and substrates in 33 SGA infants in the first postna...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hawdon JM,Ward Platt MP

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that reduced fetal growth leads to altered plasma insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) concentrations in childhood. DESIGN:A follow up study of 4 year old children whose birth weights were recorded, and of 7 year old children whose weight, length, head circumference, and placental weig...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fall CH,Pandit AN,Law CM,Yajnik CS,Clark PM,Breier B,Osmond C,Shiell AW,Gluckman PD,Barker DJ

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The case fatality rate from meningococcal disease (MD) has remained relatively unchanged in the post antibiotic era, with 20-50% of patients who develop shock still dying. In 1992 a new paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) specialising in MD was opened. Educational information was disseminated to l...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Booy R,Habibi P,Nadel S,de Munter C,Britto J,Morrison A,Levin M,Meningococcal Research Group.

更新日期：2001-11-01 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