Ductus arteriosus blood flow during first 48 hours of life.

abstract：:Dubowitz et al. have offered a scoring system for estimating the gestational age of newborn babies. If the system is applied to twin pairs, the heavier twin is generally estimated to have a greater gestational age than the lighter one. Previously this has been interpreted as a flaw in the scoring system. However, it m...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： James WH

更新日期：1980-04-01 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:There are no objective ambulatory studies on the temporal relationship between reflux and cough in children. Commercial pHmetry loggers have slow capture rates (0.25 Hz) that limit objective quantification of reflux and cough. The authors aimed to evaluate if there is a temporal association between cough and ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chang AB,Connor FL,Petsky HL,Eastburn MM,Lewindon PJ,Hall C,Wilson SJ,Katelaris PH

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:Forty six of 142 infants weighing less than 1500 g at birth, who had chest radiographs in the first 5 days of life, developed pulmonary interstitial emphysema (PIE) and in 19 this occurred in the first 24 hours. PIE was seen more frequently in infants weighing less than 1000 g at birth (24 of 57) than in those weighin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hart SM,McNair M,Gamsu HR,Price JF

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two children with a past diagnosis of coeliac disease were reinvestigated by means of gluten challenge. They had received a gluten-free diet for a mean period of 6-5 years (range 0-25-11-0) before gluten challenge, and had a mean age of 9-9 years (range 3-0-15-3) at the onset of challenge. Small intestinal biop...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Packer SM,Charlton V,Keeling JW,Risdon RA,Ogilvie D,Rowlatt RJ,Larcher VF,Harries JT

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A special conditions register (SCR) linked to the child health system's register of all children has been in use in West Sussex since 1977. This paper describes the aims, organisation, and use of the SCR and gives examples of the aggregated data that may be obtained. Of the 155,000 children aged 0-17 resident in West ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Woodroffe C,Abra A

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the policy, administration, and supervision of medicine administration in primary schools within the Greater London area (GLA). DESIGN:A prospective survey using postal questionnaires sent to 172 randomly selected primary schools within the GLA. PARTICIPANTS:Head teachers of primary schools. RES...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wong IC,Awolowo T,Gordon K,Mo YW

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The effect of adenoidectomy on nasopharyngeal colonisation of pathogens has not previously been evaluated. The authors studied the effect of adenoidectomy on nasopharyngeal colonisation by bacteria causing otitis media and the effect of adenoidectomy on the development of pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mattila PS,Hammarén-Malmi S,Saxen H,Kaijalainen T,Käyhty H,Tarkkanen J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen children with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia diagnosed over a period of 16 years at a children's hospital are reviewed. All had an underlying disease, either congenital immunodeficiency or a malignancy. 15 patients were treated, 10 with pentamidine isethionate alone, 2 with both pentamidine and co-trimoxazole...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lipson A,Marshall WC,Hayward AR

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety one patients with urinary tract abnormalities diagnosed before birth were reviewed. Diagnoses based on prenatal and postnatal ultrasound scans alone were compared with the final diagnoses after full urological investigations, with operative or necropsy confirmation in 79 cases. The results confirmed that ultras...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Clarke NW,Gough DC,Cohen SJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four child-protection scenarios were sent to 200 named/designated and non-named/non-designated doctors. The respondents judged each scenario as abuse or accident and indicated their degree of certainty. There was a 71% response rate. There were no significant differences in judgement or degrees of certainty of judgeme...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Power S

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three babies said to have had 'meconium stained liquor' were subsequently found never to have passed meconium. The green discoloured liquor was the result of bilious vomiting in utero secondary to intestinal obstruction. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Griffiths DM,Burge DM

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the safety of bronchoscopy and endobronchial biopsy in children with difficult asthma, and discuss the ethical issues associated with the procedure. METHODS:A three year prospective observational study was performed in two tertiary paediatric respiratory centres specialising in the management of chi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Payne D,McKenzie SA,Stacey S,Misra D,Haxby E,Bush A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobin-R is a commercial hyperimmune bovine colostrum with potent anticryptosporidial activity. It was administered to a 4 year old child with AIDS and severe diarrhoea associated with cryptosporidiosis. There was significant clinical improvement in the diarrhoea and permanent elimination of the parasite from the gu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shield J,Melville C,Novelli V,Anderson G,Scheimberg I,Gibb D,Milla P

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the value of a detailed family history for the assessment of the risk of recurrence of febrile seizures, 115 children who visited the emergency room of an academic children's hospital were studied prospectively. The recurrence risk of febrile seizures was analysed in relation to the child's family history...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： van Esch A,Steyerberg EW,Berger MY,Offringa M,Derksen-Lubsen G,Habbema JD

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：: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：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：:The airway response to nebulised ipratropium bromide was studied in 17 chronically or recurrently wheezy infants aged 4-15 months. The peripheral airway response was assessed by the change in maximum flow at functional residual capacity (Vmax FRC) and the upper and central airway response by the change in specific air...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Prendiville A,Green S,Silverman M

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9 year old girl presented with clinical manifestations of Henoch-Schönlein syndrome and macroscopic haematuria. Laboratory investigations showed selective IgA deficiency and renal biopsy showed mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis with diffuse granular deposits of C3 on immunofluorescence. IgA deposits were ab...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Martini A,Ravelli A,Notarangelo LD,Burgio VL,Plebani A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When children are considered for participation in research, British and international guidelines suggest that they should provide assent in addition to their parents' consent. However, examination of these guidelines shows there is confusion regarding the concept of assent. Furthermore, the need for assent may cause p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Baines P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen per cent of children treated with growth hormone (GH) are receiving treatment for Turner syndrome, but few results are available on final height in the UK. In this study, data were obtained from the UK KIGS database for 485 girls with Turner syndrome who were treated from 1986, allowing an audit of practice an...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Betts PR,Butler GE,Donaldson MD,Dunger DB,Johnston DI,Kelnar CJ,Kirk J,Price DA,Wilton P

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the presence of in vitro penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae increases the risk of clinical failure in children hospitalised with severe pneumonia and treated with penicillin/ampicillin. DESIGN:Multicentre, prospective, observational study. SETTING:12 tertiary-care centres in ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cardoso MR,Nascimento-Carvalho CM,Ferrero F,Berezin EN,Ruvinsky R,Camargos PA,Sant'anna CC,Brandileone MC,de Fátima P March M,Feris-Iglesias J,Maggi RS,Benguigui Y,CARIBE Group.

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of physical housing quality on childhood asthma expression, especially the effect of exposure to moulds, allergens, and pollutants, is well documented. However, attempts to explain increasing rates and severity of childhood asthma solely through physical environmental factors have been unsuccessful, and ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sandel M,Wright RJ

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective analysis of glycosylated haemoglobin concentrations in a diabetic outpatient clinic over three and a half years showed a small seasonal variation in the mean value with a peak in mid February and a nadir in mid August. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ferrie CD,Sharpe TC,Price DA,Surtees RA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed puberty (DP) is defined as the lack of pubertal development by an age that is 2-2.5 SDs beyond the population mean. Although it generally represents a normal variant in pubertal timing, concern that DP could be the initial presentation of a serious underlying disorder has led to a diagnostic approach that is v...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Abitbol L,Zborovski S,Palmert MR

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy infants with suspected bacterial infection in the first 48 hours of life were treated either with piperacillin and flucloxacillin or with penicillin and gentamicin. Infection was confirmed and successfully eradicated in 6 of the 35 infants receiving piperacillin and flucloxacillin. Four infants treated with pe...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Placzek M,Whitelaw A,Want S,Sahathevan M,Darrell J

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zinc content of peripheral blood leucocytes from the cord blood of 63 normal and 20 preterm babies, and of 27 babies with evidence of idiopathic intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) was measured. Leucocyte zinc depletion was present in babies with acute IUGR (IUGR babies compared with controls, mean 47.8 v 51.5 ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Meadows N,Ruse W,Keeling PW,Scopes JW,Thompson RP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00