Peripheral blood leucocyte zinc depletion in babies with intrauterine growth retardation.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inequalities in vaccine uptake exist. Studies suggest paediatric inpatients have lower rates of immunisation uptake than the general population. Various UK policies advocate opportunistic immunisation. AIM:To evaluate practice within a paediatric tertiary hospital in identifying and facilitating vaccination...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Walton S,Elliman D,Bedford H

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty five patients with encephalitis were studied prospectively, and their clinical and virological features compared with outcome. Among 22 patients with laboratory confirmation of virus infection, evidence of direct effect on the central nervous system by the virus occurred significantly more often both in those w...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kennedy CR,Duffy SW,Smith R,Robinson RO

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paediatric early warning scores (PEWS) are widely used as an adjunct to support staff in recognising deterioration in hospitalised children. Relatively little is known about how staff use these systems. OBJECTIVE:To examine the completeness and accuracy of PEWS recording in hospitalised children in a tertia...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chapman SM,Oulton K,Peters MJ,Wray J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11 year old girl developed progressive upper gastrointestinal ulceration and recurrent episodes of intravenous catheter associated polymicrobial septicaemia. Evaluation failed to establish a cause. After exclusion of the parents and careful surveillance of the patient she improved, supporting the diagnosis of suspe...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rubin LG,Angelides A,Davidson M,Lanzkowsky P

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum IgG antibodies to teichoic acid and alpha toxin from Staphylococcus aureus were measured in 62 patients with cystic fibrosis by enzyme linked immunosorbent assays. The patients were followed up for 12-24 months in a prospective study. Raised titres were found exclusively in patients chronically colonised with S ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hollsing AE,Granström M,Strandvik B

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:The decision to participate in infant screening often rests with parents. Medical ethics require that parental decision is elicited from informed choice. Such a decision is influenced by the parental knowledge and attitude towards screening and a careful evaluation of these factors is essential in seeking informed con...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Olusanya BO,Luxon LM,Wirz SL

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:Fifty four of 74 paediatricians in the West Midlands (43 general medical, 11 subspecialist) replied to a postal questionnaire about their outpatient practice: 37 timed each consultation in one clinic. On average, subspecialty consultations lasted 37 minutes for new patients and 29 minutes for review. In general clinic...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Partridge JW

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the persistence of serum Haemophilus influenzae type b antibodies and the prevalence of H influenzae type b carriage in a group of preschool age children previously vaccinated in infancy. DESIGN:Names were randomly selected from immunisation records. Families were visited on five occasions over a ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Heath PT,Bowen-Morris J,Griffiths D,Griffiths H,Crook DW,Moxon ER

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：:Children with cystic fibrosis have variable degrees of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency which, if untreated, is the main cause of fat malabsorption. The impact of pancreatic enzyme supplementation on fat digestion was measured in 41 children with cystic fibrosis, 11 healthy controls, and five children with mucosal di...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Amarri S,Harding M,Coward WA,Evans TJ,Weaver LT

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study maternal and fetal influences on blood pressure in childhood 405 children aged 4 years who were born and still resident in the Salisbury health district were visited at home for blood pressure and growth measurements. Information on the pregnancy, delivery, and baby was abstracted from the routine obstetric n...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Law CM,Barker DJ,Bull AR,Osmond C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old boy with Cockayne's syndrome is described. In addition to the recognised clinical features, he presented with severe fixed airways obstruction, and investigations confirmed clinical and physiological emphysema. In a disorder associated with many of the features of aging, it is probably that the presence o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cunningham M,Godfrey S,Moffat WM

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histological examination of the breasts of 26 infants and young children who died suddenly between the ages of 3 weeks and 2 years was performed. The glands were composed of well formed lobules surrounded by dense interlobular stroma, while within the lobules there was looser connective tissue. The lobules contained d...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McKiernan J,Coyne J,Cahalane S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catch-up growth of 26 children with growth hormone deficiency during four years of growth hormone treatment, which was started young (< 3 years), was compared with that of 16 children with coeliac disease on a gluten free diet. In children with growth hormone deficiency mean (SD) height SD score increased from -4.3 (1...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Boersma B,Rikken B,Wit JM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials in children in resource-poor environments are essential for local health policy and practice to be relevant and evidence based. Research must be ethical, appropriate, relevant and of good quality. It should, where possible, benefit the subjects studied,the clinical, scientific and support staff involve...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Molyneux E,Mathanga D,Witte D,Molyneux M

更新日期：2012-09-01 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

abstract：:The prevalence of wheezing, 'asthma', treatment for 'asthma', and school absence as a result of wheezing in Nottingham was calculated from a questionnaire survey of parents of 4750 children in a random sample of primary schools. A response was achieved for 3805 (80%) children of whom 438 (11.5%) had had episodes of wh...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hill RA,Standen PJ,Tattersfield AE

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：: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：:Multiple double blind placebo controlled challenges with tartrazine 50 mg (three challenges) and glucose placebo (three challenges) were performed in 12 children with atopic eczema aged 1 to 6 years. The children were selected on the basis of severity (regular clinic attenders) and a parental history that tartrazine p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Devlin J,David TJ

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of neonatal jaundice can be made much easier using simple methods that increase the radiant energy in the range 420 to 480 nm. Two groups of infants being treated for physiological jaundice during a period of 6 months were compared. The first group received treatment from two unmodified phototherapy uni...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Modi N,Keay AJ

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the efficacy and safety of polyethylene glycol 3350 plus electrolytes (PEG+E) for the treatment of chronic constipation in children. DESIGN:Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled crossover trial, with two 2-week treatment periods separated by a 2-week placebo washout. SETTING:Six UK paediat...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thomson MA,Jenkins HR,Bisset WM,Heuschkel R,Kalra DS,Green MR,Wilson DC,Geraint M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotising pneumonia in young, previously healthy patients due to Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL) producing Staphylococcus aureus has been increasingly recognised. PVL pneumonia is often associated with influenza co-infection and high mortality. This case report describes the successful management of the first docu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Obando I,Valderrabanos ES,Millan JA,Neth OW

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess factors associated with granting of the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for Down syndrome. DESIGN:Cross-sectional survey. SETTING:Families with a child with Down syndrome enrolled in a community-based trial of vitamin supplementation. PARTICIPANTS:156 children with trisomy 21 (59% male, 20% no...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ellis J,Logan S,Pumphrey R,Tan HK,Henley W,Edwards V,Moy R,Gilbert R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical, radiological, and biochemical features of 2 male children with mannosidosis are described. Superficially they appeared to suffer from Hurler's syndrome, but the facies, eye signs, radiological and cytological features were atypical. Excess urinary oligosaccharides were found by thin-layer chromatography....

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Milla PJ,Black IE,Patrick AD,Hugh-Jones K,Oberholzer V

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The development, delivery and evaluation of a training programme for medical and nursing professionals on best practice for informing families of their child's disability. DESIGN:A 2 h training course on 'Best practice guidelines for informing families of their child's disability' was designed based on the f...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Harnett A,Bettendorf E,Tierney E,Guerin S,O'Rourke M,Hourihane JO

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes 48 children, aged 14 years or less, who met diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa modified from Morgan and Russell. The characteristics of the sample (13 boys and 35 girls) are described along with features of the illness, associated family characteristics, treatment in hospital, and a brief de...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fosson A,Knibbs J,Bryant-Waugh R,Lask B

更新日期：1987-02-01 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