ACTH therapy in infantile spasms: side effects.

abstract：:Clinically useful criteria were found by studying immunological functions on admission in 15 African children with acute hepatitis (AH) (11 of whom were HBsAg positive) and in 11 children with fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) (8 of whom were HBsAg positive), and by comparing these results with normal controls. Nine of ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mackenjee MK,Kiepiela P,Cooper R,Coovadia HM

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The free running asthma screening test (FRAST) was used to screen children in a state middle school during a normal physical education lesson. The test was conducted by the teachers with a general practitioner available via a radiopager. Of the 249 children attending the school, aged 8-12 years, 237 (95%) were tested....

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Williams D,Bruton J,Wilson I

更新日期：1993-12-01 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：:Cerebral oedema is the most common cause of mortality and morbidity during the first day of conventional treatment for diabetic ketoacidosis in paediatric patients. It is possible that therapy contributes to its development. Risk factors that predispose to cerebral oedema should lead to an expansion of the intracellul...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Carlotti AP,Bohn D,Halperin ML

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) is the first described neurotrophin that stimulates the growth and differentiation of nerve cells and promotes skin and peripheral tissue regeneration. Recent studies suggest that NGF influences endothelial cell proliferation and angiogenic activity. In view of these proposed regenerative eff...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chiaretti A,Piastra M,Caresta E,Nanni L,Aloe L

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey is reported of infant feeding practice at the time of discharge from a single maternity ward. It is shown that a change in the attitude of nursing staff increased the number of mothers breast feeding their infants and eliminated the practice of giving the infants formula feed complements. This change in attit...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McKean KS,Baum JD,Sloper K

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To ascertain the relationship between prelacteal feeding, early formula feeding and adverse health outcomes, especially hospitalisation during the first year of life. DESIGN:Multicentre prospective cohort study. SETTING:Six hospitals across three cities in Vietnam. PATIENTS:A total of 2030 pregnant women w...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nguyen P,Binns CW,Ha AVV,Chu TK,Nguyen LC,Duong DV,Do DV,Lee AH

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two neonates with severe culture proven pertussis were successfully treated with salbutamol 0.5 mg three times daily. There was a demonstrable decrease in the total number of coughing spasms, their mean duration and severity. In one baby this was shown by the transcutaneous oxygen tension measurements. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tam AY,Yeung CY

更新日期：1986-06-01 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：:Six children with congenital heart disease are described in whom poor growth was found to be due to small-bowel villous atrophy; none was in heart failure and only one was severely cyanosed. Growth improved in all 6 on a gluten-free diet. Gluten enteropathy may be more common than is realised in children with congenit...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Congdon PJ,Fiddler GI,Littlewood JM,Scott O

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During June and July 1977 5 junior boys in a boarding school for 800 pupils became ill with a mild infection caused by Coxsackie B1. The school had been taking part in a vaccine trial, and paired blood samples had been taken from new entrants in October 1976 and October 1977. 18% of the boys susceptible to the infecti...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hoskins TW,Davies JR,Smith AJ,Collingham K,Chamberlain RN

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Propylene glycol (PG) is an unintentional frequently administered solvent in neonates despite the fact that PG accumulation potentially results in hyperosmolarity, lactic acidosis and renal/hepatic toxicity. METHODS:Prospective evaluation of renal (diuresis, creatinaemia, sodium), metabolic (base excess, ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Allegaert K,Vanhaesebrouck S,Kulo A,Cosaert K,Verbesselt R,Debeer A,de Hoon J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To identify the experiences of patients, parents or carers when a child/young person is prescribed a new long-term medicine. METHOD:Patients' prescribed a new long-term (>6 weeks) medicine were recruited from a single UK paediatric hospital out-patient pharmacy.A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Aston J,Wilson K,Terry D

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate genetic disease among children referred to a community paediatric clinic. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:Community paediatric clinic, Tower Hamlets, London. PATIENTS:All patients seen for first time in the Child Development Team (CDT) clinic between 1999 and 2013. INTERVENTIONS:Cli...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Best S,Rosser E,Bajaj M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between ethnicity and health outcomes among fetuses and infants with congenital left heart obstruction (LHO). DESIGN:A retrospective population-based review was conducted of fetuses and infants with LHO including all terminations, stillbirths and live births from 20 weeks' ges...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cloete E,Sadler L,Bloomfield FH,Crengle S,Percival T,Gentles TL

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven children with precocious puberty were treated with cyproterone acetate and their adrenal function studied. In each child the drug caused significant adrenal hypofunction which was secondary to adrenocorticotrophic hormone suppression. None of these children had clinical evidence of adrenal hypofunction and it is...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Savage DC,Swift PG

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical, radiological, and genetic features are described in 3 patients with hypochondroplasia. Early recognition of this disorder is possible from the abnormal body proportions with short limbs and lumbar lordosis without facial stigmata of achondroplasia. Radiological confirmation is possible provided a full skelet...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Glasgow JF,Nevin NC,Thomas PS

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gross T cell lymphocytosis developed in an otherwise healthy 5 year old girl and has persisted for nearly 3 years. It is associated with neutropenia and seems to be typical of a rare adult disorder that may be a type of T cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Murray JA,Lilleyman JS

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-month-old girl with invasive perineal amoebiasis is reported. There was destruction of the anus, the rectovaginal septum, the pelvic floor, and the perineum. The rapid progress and destructive potential of perineal amoebiasis is noted and the benefits of diagnostic awareness emphasised. Treatment with metronidazo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wynne JM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent epidemic of childhood obesity(1) has raised concern because of the possible clinical and public health consequences.(2,)(3) However, there remains a widespread perception among health professionals that childhood obesity is a largely cosmetic problem, with minor clinical effects. No systematic review has ye...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reilly JJ,Methven E,McDowell ZC,Hacking B,Alexander D,Stewart L,Kelnar CJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data drawn from the National Study of Health and Growth enabled an examination to be made of the attained height, weight for height, and triceps skinfold of children from one and two parent families. Children from one parent families were shorter than children from two parent families; however, once heights had been a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Garman AR,Chinn S,Rona RJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen children suffering from hay fever were treated with intra-nasal beclomethasone dipropionate (400 mug/day) and an identical placebo aerosol in a double-blind cross-over trial. 17 of the children preferred the intranasal beclomethasone dipropionate, one had no preference, none preferred the placebo. The effect ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Prahl P,Wilken-Jensen K,Mygind N

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is a body of published research on the effectiveness of home visiting for the prevention of child maltreatment, but little in the peer reviewed literature on cost-effectiveness or value to society. The authors sought to determine the cost-effectiveness of alternative home visiting programmes to inform p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dalziel K,Segal L

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:Analysis of both the content and process of examinations is central to planning the appropriate education and training of examiners in paediatric clinical examinations. This paper discusses the case for developing training, reviews the current literature, and suggests the desirable attributes of examiners and the comp...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Khera N,Davies H,Davies H,Lissauer T,Skuse D,Wakeford R,Stroobant J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty nine children of short stature exercised for 10 minutes on a non-motorised treadmill. In 49 a growth hormone concentration of greater than 15 mU/l was reached, effectively excluding growth hormone deficiency. In 10 children the growth hormone concentration failed to reach 15 mU/l; growth hormone deficiency was c...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de San Lazaro C,Parkin JM,Turner SJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If cord blood IgE is used to detect those predisposed to become allergic it is important to define appropriately the normal values for this measurement. A commonly cited cut off point is 1.0 IU/ml. We analysed 5353 cord blood samples for IgE by means of an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. Descriptive statistics of t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kimpen J,Callaert H,Embrechts P,Bosmans E

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two investigations of paediatric manpower in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland were carried out, each using a different method. The first survey located registrars and senior registrars and checked on their occupational status 3 years later in order to see which ones had been promoted. Loss factors--such as emigrat...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Liberman MM,Bellman MH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pear shaped non-electrostatic spacer, composed of steel with a volume of 250 ml and equipped with a facemask containing integrated inlet and outlet valves for inspiration and expiration, was compared with three plastic spacers. The plastic spacers were primed with repeated puffs from a budesonide pressurised metered...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bisgaard H,Anhøj J,Klug B,Berg E

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of thyroid disease in 134 children, adolescents, and young adults with diabetes mellitus beginning in childhood is described. Clustering of a family history of thyroid disease and the presence of thyrogastric antibodies in some patients supports the concept of familial autoimmunity. In 4 children a diag...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Court S,Parkin JM

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00