Thyroid scintigraphy differentiates subtypes of congenital hypothyroidism.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Data on acute paediatric anaphylaxis presentations to the emergency department (ED) are limited. All allergic presentations to one Australian paediatric ED were studied to determine epidemiological, clinical, and outcome data. METHODS:Retrospective, case based study of patients under 16 years atten...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Braganza SC,Acworth JP,Mckinnon DR,Peake JE,Brown AF

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Several studies have suggested a beneficial effect of infant breastfeeding on childhood cognitive function. The main objective was to examine whether duration of breastfeeding and age at introduction of complementary foods are related to cognitive performance in 9- to 10-year-old school-aged children in South India...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Veena SR,Krishnaveni GV,Srinivasan K,Wills AK,Hill JC,Kurpad AV,Muthayya S,Karat SC,Nalinakshi M,Fall CH

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The range of thermal control and the thermoneutral range of preterm infants under 30 weeks' gestation was calculated by extrapolation of data from studies on more mature infants. Even assuming some thermoregulatory capacity, the range of control is less than 3 degrees C, the thermoneutral range is less than 0.5 degree...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wheldon AE,Hull D

更新日期：1983-07-01 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：:The ability to produce dihydroxylated metabolites of vitamin D was studied in a term neonate suffering from severe renal insufficiency. The infant died at age 26 days owing to end-stage renal failure and the necropsy examination showed a single dysplastic kidney weighing 1.5 g. At age 2 weeks the serum levels of the d...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Alkalay A,Mogilner BM,Nissim F,Edelstein S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In preterm babies both haemoglobin and total neutrophil count values from capillary sites are significantly and variably higher than those from simultaneous arterial samples. Comparing simultaneous venous and arterial samples, the mean haemoglobin was slightly higher but the total neutrophil counts were similar. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thurlbeck SM,McIntosh N

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile cytopathic toxin was found in the faeces or gut content of five of 39 neonates with necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). Toxin concentrations were uniformly low and did not differ from those found in healthy neonates. C difficile is unlikely to be involved in the pathogenesis of NEC. Stools from 33 b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thomas DF,Fernie DS,Bayston R,Spitz L

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) aims to integrate drug measurement results into clinical decision making. The basic rules apply when using TDM in neonates (aminoglycosides, vancomycin, phenobarbital, digoxin), but additional factors should also be taken into account. First, due to both pharmacokinetic variability an...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pauwels S,Allegaert K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Th incidence and severity of posterior subcapsular cataracts were studied in 58 children with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome. Eight (14%) children had cataracts. Visual acuity was normal in all but one child. There was no relationship between total dose or mean daily dose of prednisolone (corrected for body surf...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Brocklebank JT,Harcourt RB,Meadow SR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial splenectomy was performed on 30 patients with homozygous beta thalassaemia to reduce blood requirements and to avoid the risk of overwhelming postsplenectomy infections; 24 patients had thalassaemia major and six thalassaemia intermedia. Five patients received a high transfusion regimen before and after surger...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Montalembert M,Girot R,Revillon Y,Jan D,Adjrad L,Ardjoun FZ,Belhani M,Najean Y

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The number of children admitted to hospital is increasing year on year, with very short-stay admissions doubling in the last decade. Childhood head injury accounts for half a million emergency department attendances in the UK every year. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Marlow R,Mytton J,Maconochie IK,Taylor H,Lyttle MD

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of 105 children with urinary tract infection showed an increasing prevalence of grades II-III vesicoureteric reflux with diminishing age. During infancy reflux was almost always severe, and affected boys as often as girls. Radiologically scarred kidneys were drained by refluxing ureters in 98% of cases. The p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shah KJ,Robins DG,White RH

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine current use of vitamin K (VK) prophylaxis in newborns and review the efficacy and effectiveness of regimens used. DESIGN:Efficacy and effectiveness calculated using current practice details, data from Southern Ireland and two previous surveys, together with contemporaneous studies of vitamin K d...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Busfield A,McNinch A,Tripp J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the epidemiology, clinical profile and risk factors of pseudotumor cerebri syndrome (PTCS) in children aged 1-16 years. METHODS:A national prospective population-based cohort study over 25 months. Newly diagnosed PTCS cases notified via British Paediatric Surveillance Unit were ascertained using cla...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Matthews YY,Dean F,Lim MJ,Mclachlan K,Rigby AS,Solanki GA,White CP,Whitehouse WP,Kennedy CR

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of partial trisomy of the long arm of chromosome 3 (3q21 leads to qter) is described. The clinical findings are compared with those in 5 previously reported cases. There is hirsutism and characteristic facial dysmorphism, the common features of which are a square-shaped face, prominent nasal bridge, everted nos...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fear C,Briggs A

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma testosterone was estimated by radioimmunoassay in 60 children with disorders of sexual development before and after stimulation with human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG). In 21 children the testosterone levels after 3 and 5 daily injections of 1000 units HCG were compared and good correlation was found between t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Grant DB,Laurance BM,Atherden SM,Ryness J

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a meningococcal (group A) epidemic, 47 Nigerian children with acute meningococcaemia without meningitis were studied. Their mortality rate was 43% compared with 8% during the whole epidemic. Those presenting with coma and shock had a mortality of 93%, but without shock or coma mortality was only 6%. Coma or sho...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lewis LS

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To examine the efficacy and safety of torasemide in children with chronic heart failure (HF). METHODS:102 children with chronic HF who had received oral torasemide were analysed. Of these, 62 (de novo group) were newly diagnosed as having HF and were given torasemide as a diuretic. The remaining 40 (replacem...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Senzaki H,Kamiyama M,Masutani S,Ishido H,Taketazu M,Kobayashi T,Katogi T,Kyo S

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Despite improved nutrition and intensive treatment, subjects with cystic fibrosis have difficulty in maintaining anabolism during intercurrent infections, which can result in reduced body mass index and impaired skeletal growth. Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and its binding protein IGFBP3 are sensitiv...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Taylor AM,Bush A,Thomson A,Oades PJ,Marchant JL,Bruce-Morgan C,Holly J,Ahmed L,Dunger DB

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little high quality evidence on which to base the management of bone and joint infections in children. This pragmatic practice note aims to provide a consensus framework of best current practice prior to the availability of data from large national randomised controlled trials. For straightforward infection i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Faust SN,Clark J,Pallett A,Clarke NM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foot length, occipito-frontal head circumference (OFC), crown-rump, and crown-heel length (CHL) of 123 neonates of gestational ages 26-42 weeks, were measured between 12 hours and 5 days. A gauge, designed and constructed at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, was used to measure foot length. In term babies (37-42 wee...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： James DK,Dryburgh EH,Chiswick ML

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two neonates with acute infantile cerebral Gaucher's disease had prominent collodion skin. Ichthyosis has been described in some cases of metabolic lipid disorders, however, this is the first report of the association of lamellar desquamation of the newborn (collodion baby) with Gaucher's disease. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lui K,Commens C,Choong R,Jaworski R

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma concentration was measured after rectal and nasogastric administration of paracetamol 15 mg/kg to 28 febrile children aged between 9 days to 7 years who had undergone cardiac surgery. After equivalent doses, rectal administration in neonates and children on the first postoperative day was found to produce plasm...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hopkins CS,Underhill S,Booker PD

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature newborn rabbits, delivered on day 27 of gestation, were treated with tracheal deposition of dry artificial surfactant containing dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine and unsaturated phosphatidylglycerol (7:3), or crude natural surfactant prepared by centrifugation of lung wash from adult rabbits. Before receiving...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morley C,Robertson B,Lachmann B,Nilsson R,Bangham A,Grossmann G,Miller N

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:In paediatrics drugs are prescribed as mg/kg doses to facilitate accurate dosing. Anecdotally, some drugs are prescribed in such a way that the volume to be given is difficult to measure which may lead to inaccuracies and potential for error. Locally, errors have been reported where there has been a misunderstandin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Balsara J,Fletcher P

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:Members of four generations of a family had a defect of serum opsonization for yeast phagocytosis consistent with dominant inheritance. 2 were healthy, one had chronic osteomyelitis, and the fourth developed a fatal illness in infancy characterized by exfoliative dermatitis, diarrhoea, multiple bacterial infections, a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Scott H,Moynahan EJ,Risdon RA,Harvey BA,Soothill JF

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the efficacy of the prokinetic agent cisapride with that of Gaviscon (an alginate/alkaline compound) plus Carobel (carob seed flour) in the treatment of gastrooesophageal reflux (GOR). Fifty infants with confirmed GOR received either oral cisapride (0.8 mg/kg/day) or Gaviscon plus Carobel for one month in ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Greally P,Hampton FJ,MacFadyen UM,Simpson H

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal transmission of hepatitis B virus infection in relation to the hepatitis B e antigen/antibody system and serum hepatitis B virus-DNA were evaluated. Results indicate that hepatitis B virus-DNA analysis can identify hepatitis B serum antigen positive mothers who may transmit infection to their offspring. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： De Virgiliis S,Frau F,Sanna G,Turco MP,Figus AL,Cornacchia G,Cao A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00