Estimation of gestational age at birth. Comparison of two methods.

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：:The duration of symptoms before diagnosis (lag time) was defined for 184 of 236 children diagnosed as having a malignancy at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh for the time period January 1982 until December 1990. The natural logarithm of the lag time was correlated with age, gender, diagnostic group, whi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Saha V,Love S,Eden T,Micallef-Eynaud P,MacKinlay G

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty four children with acute bronchiolitis were given twice daily chest physiotherapy in addition to standard supportive measures and were compared with 46 controls who were not given physiotherapy. There was no clinically discernable benefit on the course of their illness. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Webb MS,Martin JA,Cartlidge PH,Ng YK,Wright NA

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are few data on the optimal micronutrient composition of paediatric enteral feeds. The recent European Directive on Foods for Special Medical Purposes (1999/21/EC) did not distinguish between the composition of adult and paediatric feeds. AIMS:To evaluate, in an open, observational study, the long ter...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Johnson TE,Janes SJ,MacDonald A,Elia M,Booth IW

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12 year old boy presented with primary nocturnal enuresis. Investigation showed extensive bilateral nephrocalcinosis of no obvious or recognised cause. Persistent severe renal hypercalciuria was confirmed by an intravenous calcium infusion. Idiopathic hypercalciuria is not a common cause of nephrocalcinosis and has ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Aggarwal VK,Jones KV

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight hospitals reported 781 non-iatrogenic accidents occurring to patients and visitors under 16 years of age during an 18 month period up to October 1989. Accidents more often involved boys and children aged 3 to 5 years old. Falls from a height, slips, and striking accidents were common by day and falls by night. A...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Levene S,Bonfield G

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:School medical records of 1000 children born in 1981 were studied retrospectively. They showed that once known medical problems and those screened for by the school nurse (hearing, vision, growth) were excluded, only 17 problems requiring treatment were discovered: speech (n = 10), development (n = 3), undescended tes...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smith GC,Powell A,Reynolds K,Campbell CA

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of zinc in the hair of 219 schoolchildren aged between 10 and 11 years was measured and related to height, weight, estimates of consumption of zinc-rich foods, number of children living at home, and rank in family. None of the correlation coefficients between hair zinc and the other variables was sig...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Heinersdorff N,Taylor TG

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：:The neurodevelopmental state of 41 children with congenital cytomegalovirus infection and their controls was assessed at 2 years using the Griffiths scale. The scores achieved by children with congenital cytomegalovirus but with no associated neurological abnormality (asymptomatic) were similar to those of the control...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pearl KN,Preece PM,Ades A,Peckham CS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid suppressible hyperaldosteronism (GSH) is an uncommon form of dominantly inherited hypertension. Presentation with hypertension and complications such as stroke in early life are well recognised. The use of a simple genetic test carried out on blood or placenta facilitates the detection of infants and ch...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jamieson A,Inglis GC,Campbell M,Fraser R,Connell JM

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pethidine or an epidural injection of bupivacaine are common forms of obstetric analgesia in Britain. Bupivacaine has been thought to have little effect on the fetus, but neurobehavioural studies have cast doubt on this. We therefore investigated the elimination of these drugs by babies in similar population groups. B...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cooper LV,Stephen GW,Aggett PJ

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of chorionic somatomammotrophin (hCS) in maternal plasma at the time of delivery and in placental extracts were determined by radioimmunoassay and related to neonatal growth in 111 normal pregnancies. Mean maternal plasma hCS concentration was lower in association with small-for-dates infants, defined b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Macmillian DR,Hawkins R,Collier RN

更新日期：1976-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) causes lower respiratory tract infections, particularly in young children and the elderly. METHODS:A prospective study was conducted on the clinical characteristics of infants <2 years of age admitted to hospital for respiratory infection and the characteristics of hMPV infectio...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： García-García ML,Calvo C,Martín F,Pérez-Breña P,Acosta B,Casas I

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：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：: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：:Administration of 1 alpha-OH-D3 to hypocalcaemic neonates (mean +/- SD, serum calcium 1.50 +/- 0.13 mmol/l) significantly increased serum calcium in all 24 infants within 48 hours after starting therapy (mean +/- SD 1.83 +/- 0.23 mmol/1). The time required to correct hypocalcaemia was significantly shorter (2.04 +/- 0...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Barak Y,Milbauer B,Weisman Y,Edelstein S,Spirer Z

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with raised intracranial pressure responding to ventriculoperitoneal shunting are described in whom ultrasound failed to show dilated ventricles. The importance of not equating absence of ventricular dilatation with normal pressure and ventricular dilatation with high pressure is emphasised. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pilling DW,Cudmore RE

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of pseudoparalysis in infancy are reported in which the appearance of localized infection in the affected limb was delayed for a variable period after the onset of pseudoparalysis. Blood cultures on admission in all cases were positive, and bacteraemia due to the three organisms isolated is discussed. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Yuille TD

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most children with daytime wetting have detrusor instability. A minority have neuropathic vesicourethral dysfunction. The commonest cause is spina bifida, which may be closed. Clinical features suggestive of closed spina bifida include cutaneous, neuro-orthopaedic or lumbosacral spine x ray abnormalities, im...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wraige E,Borzyskowski M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have shown a correlation between increased accident rates and levels of deprivation in the community. School accident reporting is one area where an association might be expected. AIMS:To investigate differences in primary school accident rates in deprived and more affluent wards, in an area managed...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Latif AH,Williams WR,Sibert J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on the efficacy and safety of long-acting β2-agonists (LABA) in children are limited, and current guidelines recommend that LABA always be used with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS). OBJECTIVE:To compare asthma control, assessed by rescue medications use, in children prescribed LABA and ICS as a fixed-dos...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elkout H,McLay JS,Simpson CR,Helms PJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical examination, while useful, has been shown to be insufficient as the sole screening method in infants. Ultrasound examination at 8 weeks in high risk infants is an integral part of the screening process in some units. AIMS:To show the efficiency of hip sonography in detection of developmental dyspla...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lowry CA,Donoghue VB,Murphy JF

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:Forty-seven cases of prune belly syndrome in children born between 1948 and 1977 are described. They have been classified into three groups according to the state of the urinary tract in the neonatal period. The results achieved in these cases form the basis of our present management. In group I, the most severely aff...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Woodhouse CR,Ransley PG,Innes-Williams D

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two girls (a 5 year old and a 21 month old) experiencing mononucleosis syndrome with coincidental human herpesvirus (HHV)-7 and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections are described. One patient had primary HHV-7 infection and reactivated EBV infection. The other had primary HHV-7 and EBV infections. These cases indicated...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chiu HH,Lee CY,Lee PI,Lin KH,Huang LM

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：: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