Failure to vaccinate against whooping cough.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Varicella universal vaccination (UV) has been implemented in many countries for several years. Nevertheless, varicella UV remains debated in Europe and few data are available on the real burden of infection. We assessed the burden of varicella in Belgium through analysis of hospitalised cases during a 1-year...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Blumental S,Sabbe M,Lepage P,Belgian Group for Varicella.

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty preterm infants (birthweight under 1500 g) were treated with phenobarbitone to examine its effectiveness in reducing the incidence of intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH), the control group comprising 28 infants. The treated group had 57% incidence of IVH and mortality of 13% compared with 68% and 14%, respective...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Anwar M,Kadam S,Hiatt IM,Hegyi T

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung function measurements with and without a disposable bacterial filter were compared in 60 children. Although statistically significant, the reduction of lung function measurements caused by using bacterial filters was small and clinically irrelevant (2-4% of predicted for forced expiratory volume in one second and...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kamps AW,Vermeer K,Roorda RJ,Brand PL

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：:The difficulty of distinguishing surgically correctable causes of conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia in infants from other causes means that some infants may undergo laparotomy and intraoperative cholangiography unnecessarily, and others may be referred for surgery too late. In an attempt to improve the diagnostic accurac...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wilkinson ML,Mieli-Vergani G,Ball C,Portmann B,Mowat AP

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven children with unilateral proptosis were investigated over a period of 8 1/2 years. Seventeen (63%) of them had local or disseminated malignancy, a higher proportion than in earlier reports. The frequency of inflammatory lesions, particularly ethmoiditis progressing to proptosis, appeared to have decreased...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Oakhill A,Willshaw H,Mann JR

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical, non-diarrhoea associated haemolytic uraemic syndrome (D-HUS) is a heterogeneous disorder with a generally poor outcome, although this view has now been questioned. The clinical and laboratory features of 23 children with D-HUS, representing a third of all patients with HUS seen during the last 26 years, were...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Neuhaus TJ,Calonder S,Leumann EP

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To examine the value of neurodevelopmental examination, fragile X testing, iron studies, and other screening procedures in children with mild to moderate learning difficulties. DESIGN:A cross sectional case-control study. SUBJECTS:A 34% random sample (n = 130) of children with mild to moderate learning diff...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Corrigan N,Stewart M,Scott M,Fee F

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preductal and postductal oxygen saturation were compared in 20 ventilated preterm infants with hyaline membrane disease to establish the frequency of right to left shunting and to assess the accuracy of postductus arteriosus blood gas sampling. One hundred and thirty eight comparisons were made and the frequency of ri...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Macdonald PD,Yu VY

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty jaundiced neonates with diarrhoea who were being treated with phototherapy and 30 matched control infants were studied to try and find out the cause of the diarrhoea. Faecal osmolality and electrolyte concentrations were measured, which gave clear evidence that the diarrhoea arose from intestinal secretion. Rec...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： De Curtis M,Guandalini S,Fasano A,Saitta F,Ciccimarra F

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant feeding methods used by mothers who smoke and by mothers who do not, who delivered in one maternity hospital, were compared to determine if smoking affected breast feeding. Significantly more of the smoking group chose either to bottle feed from delivery or, having been discharged from the hospital breast feedi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lyon AJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance for referral of children with suspected cancer was first published in 2005 and updated in 2015. The updated version relied on sparse primary care evidence and published without input from key stakeholders, for example, acute general paedia...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Murray MJ,Ruffle A,Lowis S,Howell L,Shanmugavadivel D,Dommett R,Gamble A,Shenton G,Nicholson J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A girl was born to a mother who had undergone treatment for epilepsy with carbamazepine during pregnancy. The infant had dysmorphic features and was physically and mentally retarded. We consider that the malformations were the result of the maternal treatment with carbamazepine. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Vestermark V,Vestermark S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased emphasis on strict glycaemic control of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in young patients may be expected to cause increases in rates of significant hypoglycaemia. To evaluate whether this is the case for a large population based sample of IDDM children and adolescents rates of severe (coma, convu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Davis EA,Keating B,Byrne GC,Russell M,Jones TW

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children at three inner city child health clinics were offered haemoglobin estimation by fingerprick blood test when attending for immunisation against measles. Of the 98 immunised, 92 (94%) participated in the study, together with 58 other children. Anaemia (haemoglobin concentration less than 110 g/l) was found in 3...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Marder E,Nicoll A,Polnay L,Shulman CE

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Aerosol therapy in infants may be greatly compromised by face mask rejection due to squirming and crying. Lung aerosol deposition in crying infants may thereby be greatly reduced. Since 'suckling' on a pacifier calms infants, they should more readily accept a face mask that incorporates a pacifier. However...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Amirav I,Luder A,Chleechel A,Newhouse MT,Gorenberg M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire relating to smoking habits, respiratory symptoms, and health attitude was administered to schoolchildren aged between 11 and 17 throughout a defined geographical area in both 1975 and 1979, with a valid response from 10498 and 12002 young people respectively. Each cohort was almost entirely different. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rawbone RG,Guz A

更新日期：1982-05-01 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：:The morbidity pattern, based on hospital admissions for a complete year's cohort of all children born in Sheffield 1975-6, was studied. In many children the diagnosis given on admission had changed by the time they were discharged from hospital. About one-quarter of children under age 6 months were admitted for social...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lloyd B,Pursall E,Emery JL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children receiving chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) may be susceptible to skeletal morbidity. AIM:To determine the incidence and risk factors for skeletal morbidity in ALL children. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The medical records of all (n=186, boys=110) children presenting to a single centre ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elmantaser M,Stewart G,Young D,Duncan R,Gibson B,Ahmed SF

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 15 years, 42 children aged 2-14 years were diagnosed as having acquired aplastic anaemia. Adequate clinical details were available for 38 children who were categorised as very severe (n = 13), severe (n = 16), or nonsevere (n = 9) by the modified Camitta criteria. Treatment varied over the study period. Seven chi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Webb DK,Hann IM,Chessells JM

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop and implement an evidence based guideline for the treatment of acute asthma using a metered dose inhaler and spacer combination. METHODS:Defined strategies were used for the development and implementation of a guideline, assessed by a prospective, descriptive, study using notes review, and patient, nur...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Powell CV,Maskell GR,Marks MK,South M,Robertson CF

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Mental retardation" is a modern term for an age old problem. The descriptions of paediatric cases contained within the works of Thomas Willis (1621-75) have been increasingly recognised for their insight into seventeenth century child health practices. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Williams AN

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-one children with a bacteriologically proven urinary tract infection had both an intravenous urogram (IVU) and a micturating cystogram. The IVU was normal in 35. Only 6 of these children showed reflux in the cystogram, affecting 7 of the 70 ureters at risk. Since reflux on its own does not cause renal damage, wh...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Moncrieff MW,Whitelaw R

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in two consecutive sisters is reported. The first sibling showed hepatosplenomegaly with slight hyperbilirubinaemia and abnormal liver function tests, right inguinal hernia, and peripheral lymphoedema. Her sister, the product of an uneventful pre...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nigro G,Clerico A,Mondaini C

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of schoolchildren was followed up over 6 years from 1996 to 2001. In the final year, 315 of 500 targeted children were measured. Body mass index (BMI) increased substantially over time (p<0.001), indicating a further rise in obesity into the secondary school years. Two new indicators of obesity were also meas...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rudolf MC,Greenwood DC,Cole TJ,Levine R,Sahota P,Walker J,Holland P,Cade J,Truscott J

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To reduce the overall expenditure on melatonin for the local health economy by working collaboratively with the CCG's. To ensure that all paediatric patients prescribed melatonin have been clinically assessed by a specialist and the most appropriate formulation is dispensed. METHOD:Evaluation of GP melatonin presc...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Haley H

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the risk factors for breakthrough varicella in a follow up study of a cohort of 181 healthy children immunised when aged 9-24 months with a reformulated Oka strain varicella vaccine (SmithKline Beecham Biologicals/Oka). DESIGN:The children were randomised in a double blind manner into one of four group...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lim YJ,Chew FT,Tan AY,Lee BW

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate (1) whether colic cries are acoustically distinct from pre-feed "hunger" cries; (2) the role of the acoustic properties of these cries versus their other properties in accounting for parents' concerns about colic. DESIGN:From a community sample, infants were selected who met Wessel colic criteria f...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： St James-Roberts I

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00