Retrospective review of Synacthen testing in infants.

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：:The term Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) encompasses a group of inherited connective tissue disorders. The manifestations of EDS can be seen in skin, joints, blood vessels and internal organs and vary from mild to severe and life threatening. Each subtype is a separate and different condition. The genetic basis of many s...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sobey G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the clinical characteristics and predictors of mortality from snake bite envenomation in children. DESIGN:Prospective observational study with a one-group cohort design. SETTING:Paediatric intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital in South India. SUBJECTS:The study cohort consisted of 145 ch...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jayakrishnan MP,Geeta MG,Krishnakumar P,Rajesh TV,George B

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with end stage renal failure and anaemia have an increased cardiac index and often gross ventricular hypertrophy. Correction of anaemia with recombinant human erythropoietin (r-HuEpo) for less than six months results in a reduction in the cardiac index without a significant reduction in left ventricular hyper...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morris KP,Skinner JR,Hunter S,Coulthard MG

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterise fetal brain growth in children with specific language impairment (SLI). DESIGN:A nested case-control study. SETTING:Perth, Western Australia. PARTICIPANTS:Thirty children meeting criteria for SLI at age 10 years were individually matched with a typically developing comparison child on sex, ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Whitehouse AJ,Zubrick SR,Blair E,Newnham JP,Hickey M

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine if exploratory factor analysis can identify subtypes comprising recognisable clinical patterns of the presenting signs and symptoms of children with joint hypermobility syndrome (JHS). PATIENTS:Eighty-nine children with JHS aged 6-16 years. METHODS:Twelve tests comprising anthropometric, muscul...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pacey V,Adams RD,Tofts L,Munns CF,Nicholson LL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neonate developed complete thrombosis of the abdominal aorta after catheterisation of the umbilical artery. This was successfully treated with an intravenous infusion of streptokinase. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kirk CR,Bhrolchain CN,Qureshi SA

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is an X-linked primary immunodeficiency caused by a mutation of the WAS protein gene. This protein actively participates in important cellular processes, and its presence is related to diverse clinical manifestations, including cutaneous alterations. The classical triad of WA...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Loyola Presa JG,de Carvalho VO,Morrisey LR,Bonfim CM,Abagge KT,Vasselai A,Marinoni LP

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:Four preterm infants of very low birthweight (less than 1500 g) developed signs of copper deficiency between age 8 and 10 weeks. All had required prolonged ventilatory support, parenteral nutrition, and nasojejunal feeding. The clinical features, which included osteoporosis, oedema, anaemia, neutropenia, and late apno...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sutton AM,Harvie A,Cockburn F,Farquharson J,Logan RW

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the incidence of hypocalcaemia in critically ill children with meningococcal disease. METHODS:In a prospective cohort study, 70 of 80 patients admitted consecutively with a clinical diagnosis of meningococcal disease to intensive care had measurements of total and ionised calcium on admission. Paratho...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Baines PB,Thomson AP,Fraser WD,Hart CA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a prospective study in which we investigated why children fail to get vaccinated against whooping cough, including an assessment of the attitudes of parents and professionals and the impact of different views of the contraindications. There was considerable disagreement among the professionals on the inter...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Stevens D,Baker R,Hands S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Congenital laryngomalacia (CLM) is the major cause of stridor in infants. Most cases are expected to resolve before 2 years of age, but long-term respiratory prospects are poorly described. We aimed to investigate if CLM was associated with altered laryngeal structure or function in later life. METHODS:Twen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hilland M,Røksund OD,Sandvik L,Haaland Ø,Aarstad HJ,Halvorsen T,Heimdal JH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:349 Maasai children younger than 6 years old were randomised by alternate household to drink water either left in plastic bottles exposed to sunlight on the roof of the house or kept indoors (control). The trial was run in Maasai by Maasai community elders. Children drinking solar disinfected water had a significantly...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Conroy RM,Meegan ME,Joyce T,McGuigan K,Barnes J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients with salt-losing congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) who had stopped mineralocorticoid therapy for several years, showed raised plasma concentrations of 17OH-progesterone and plasma renin activity, despite adequate glucoticoid therapy. One patient was able to reduce urinary sodium excretion when the sod...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hughes IA,Wilton A,Lole CA,Gray OP

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spirometric data from 1586 healthy children, who did not smoke, were analysed to examine the effects of overweight as measured by the body mass index (weight/height2) on lung function. Overweight (72 boys, 88 girls) was defined as on or above the 90th percentile weight for height. After having controlled for the confo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fung KP,Lau SP,Chow OK,Lee J,Wong TW

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12 year old Asian girl with a four year history of poorly controlled insulin dependent diabetes mellitus developed overt diabetic nephropathy. There were no clinical features of Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome. Screening for microalbuminuria would have identified incipient diabetic nephropathy and highlighted the importa...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Francis J,Rose SJ,Raafat F,Milford DV

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth velocity of head circumference was studied longitudinally in different gestational age groups of 222 appropriate-weight-for-dates (AFD) and 94 small-for-dates (SFD) healthy infants during the first 5 months of life. Term AFD and SFD infants showed a steady slowing of growth rate of head circumference from birth...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fujimura M,Seryu JI

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) is a potentially disabling complication occurring in up to 67% of adult patients following deep venous thrombosis (DVT). PTS has recently been recognised in children. We present three cases of symptomatic PTS in children, which occurred following the use of central venous lines (CVLs). I...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Barnes C,Newall F,Monagle P

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:The lactulose/L-rhamnose urinary excretion ratio during continued infusion of milks containing both sugars was used as an index of the permeability of the neonatal bowel to large and small molecules. Healthy infants of gestational age 31-36 weeks proved to have a period of enhanced permeability to lactulose during the...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Beach RC,Menzies IS,Clayden GS,Scopes JW

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Assays based on interferon gamma (IFNgamma) are an exciting new development for screening for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in adults, but there are limited data on their effectiveness in children. Nevertheless new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommend their ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Taylor RE,Cant AJ,Clark JE

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six newborn infants with intrauterine supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (five cases of atrial flutter and one of supraventricular tachycardia) are described. Transplacental digitalisation was attempted in three cases. Supraventricular tachycardia associated with hydrops fetalis, detected in a fetus at a gestation of 3...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nagashima M,Asai T,Suzuki C,Matsushima M,Ogawa A

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No consistent differences were found in mean heights and weights of 170 schoolchildren aged 6--12 years with the sickle cell trait and 1247 schoolchildren with normal haemoglobin living in Dominica and Jamaica. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ashcroft MT,Desai P,Grell GA,Serjeant BE,Serjeant GR

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1973 a survey was conducted among 12 year old children living in a defined area of South Wales. In 1988 the survey was repeated in the same area, again among 12 year old children. Questionnaires were completed for all 965 children in the population sample; peak expiratory flow rates were performed on them all, and ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Burr ML,Butland BK,King S,Vaughan-Williams E

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic control in 88 children attending three general paediatric clinics was compared prospectively over one year with that of 89 children attending a specialist paediatric diabetic clinic. Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1) concentration and days admitted were significantly lower in the group attending the specialist clin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bloomfield S,Farquhar JW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In acute paediatrics, overtreatment and overdiagnosis is encountered in threshold and developed countries. The reason for overtreatment may be similar in the two settings, namely the mere availability of invasive procedures, which may lead to their inappropriate use. Physiological healing processes should be integrate...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Frey B

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two children with ruptured, multiple hydatid cysts treated with mebendazole. Long term follow up has confirmed the success of this treatment. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Karpathios T,Syriopoulou V,Nicolaidou P,Messaritakis J

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Controlling lung inflammation may be the key to improving morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis. OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of inhaled corticosteroids on lung inflammation in cystic fibrosis. DESIGN:Double blind placebo controlled randomised sequence crossover trial. Fluticasone propionate (400 m...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Balfour-Lynn IM,Klein NJ,Dinwiddie R

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00