Familial neurodegenerative disorder associated with raised urinary vanillylmandelic acid.

abstract：:An intravenous urogram and micturating cystourethrogram were carried out in 100 infants presenting with documented urinary tract infections. Ninety three cases were identified by suprapubic aspiration and 7 by culture of two voided urine samples containing greater than 100 X 10(6) organisms per litre. The urinary trac...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bourchier D,Abbott GD,Maling TM

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The revised BSPGHAN guidelines for the diagnosis and management of coeliac disease represent an important shift in diagnostic strategy, aimed at simplifying and shortening the diagnostic process in selected cases. Guidance is given concerning the indications for testing for coeliac disease, which is still significantl...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Murch S,Jenkins H,Auth M,Bremner R,Butt A,France S,Furman M,Gillett P,Kiparissi F,Lawson M,McLain B,Morris MA,Sleet S,Thorpe M,BSPGHAN.

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the mental health of children and adolescents admitted to neonatal intensive/special care units (NICUs) in infancy. METHODS:This cross-sectional study used a provincially representative cohort from the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study. Parents provided data on psychiatric disorders using the MI...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chiorean A,Savoy C,Beattie K,El Helou S,Silmi M,Van Lieshout RJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one children who had been diagnosed as having laryngomalacia by direct laryngoscopy in infancy were reviewed 7 to 12 years later. The natural history of the disease is documented. A wide variation in the time of onset and duration of the stridor was found and there was a high incidence of feeding difficulties. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McSwiney PF,Cavanagh NP,Languth P

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a child with Down's syndrome in whom metrorrhagia and precocious puberty revealed primary autoimmune hypothyroidism. The patient had a decreased growth velocity, exaggerated weight gain, bone age delay, and bilaterally enlarged multicystic ovaries. Delays in the diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism can ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chemaitilly W,Thalassinos C,Emond S,Thibaud E

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine whether current and postpartum maternal depression and low maternal intelligence are risk factors for malnutrition in children. METHODS:In rural South India 72 children with malnutrition were identified from a central register; 72 controls were matched for age, gender, and residence. RESULTS:Major d...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Anoop S,Saravanan B,Joseph A,Cherian A,Jacob KS

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a period of 30 months, umbilical artery catheters were inserted in 229 infants. The main complications were haemorrhage, infection, and obstruction of a blood vessel. The incidence of infection was not affected by the use of prophylactic antibiotics. Vascular obstruction was more common in small infants, and in t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： van Vliet PK,Gupta JM

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty nine infants with severe asphyxia (28 affected perinatally and 11 later) were studied by electrophysiological cerebral function monitoring (CFM) for periods varying from a half to 49 days. Nineteen infants died while still in intensive care and two died later from sequelae. Eighteen survived and were followed u...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bjerre I,Hellström-Westas L,Rosén I,Svenningsen N

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remarkable advances have been made over the past decade in defining the burden of newborn mortality and morbidity and stillbirths, and in identifying interventions to address the major risk factors and causes of deaths. However, progress in saving newborn lives and preventing stillbirths in countries lags behind that ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Darmstadt GL,Shiffman J,Lawn JE

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a screening programme of 10000 pregnant women by the Guthrie test, a previously unrecognised phenylketonuric woman was detected. A low phenylalanine diet introduced from the 16th week of gestation failed to prevent fetal abnormality and mental retardation. Maternal phenylketonuria requires earlier diagnosis tha...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Scott TM,Fyfe WM,Hart DM

更新日期：1980-08-01 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：:During the 6-year period from 1 October 1971 to 30 September 1977, 13 (about 1%) of 1225 admissions to hospital with asthma developed severe ventilatory failure (peak arterial PCO 2 greater than 8 kPa). Mean age was 4.1 years (2.3--7.9), and on average each patient had been admitted to hospital on 5 occasions during t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Simpson H,Mitchell I,Inglis JM,Grubb DJ

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk factors for mortality were analysed in a consecutive group of 1158 children presenting to the Aga Khan University Medical Center, Karachi, with multidrug resistant typhoid fever that had been proved on culture. There were 19 deaths, representing an overall case fatality rate of 1.6%. Multidrug resistant typho...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bhutta ZA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pressure (BP) values and the phenomenon of tracking were evaluated in a group of 481 schoolchildren over a nine year period starting at age 6 years. BP values were obtained yearly by taking the mean of two measurements at one visit, measurements were taken by only two observers during the study. For both systoli...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sánchez-Bayle M,Muñoz-Fernández MT,González-Requejo A

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory timing was studied in 100 babies ventilated for respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) during a brief period of continuous positive airway pressure. For the 76 spontaneously breathing babies the mean (SD) inspiratory and expiratory times were 0.31 (0.06) and 0.41 (0.12) seconds. Respiratory rate was predomina...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： South M,Morley CJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The case fatality rate from meningococcal disease (MD) has remained relatively unchanged in the post antibiotic era, with 20-50% of patients who develop shock still dying. In 1992 a new paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) specialising in MD was opened. Educational information was disseminated to l...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Booy R,Habibi P,Nadel S,de Munter C,Britto J,Morrison A,Levin M,Meningococcal Research Group.

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:The National Grid is a training scheme that represents a unique partnership between Deaneries and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in offering through national competition, equitable access to high quality subspecialty training. Paediatrics is unusual in that within the umbrella Certificate of...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McGraw M,Ng G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The auditory function of 370 infants, drawn from both low and high risk groups, was tested before postnatal discharge using three tests: standard auditory brain stem responses (ABR), automated analysis of ABR, and automated analysis of evoked otoacoustic emissions (OAE). All infants failing any neonatal test had furth...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kennedy CR,Kimm L,Dees DC,Evans PI,Hunter M,Lenton S,Thornton RD

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) encompasses a group of inherited connective tissue disorders. The manifestations of EDS can be seen in skin, joints, blood vessels and internal organs and vary from mild to severe and life threatening. Each subtype is a separate and different condition. The genetic basis of many s...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sobey G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life was sorted. With membership of the college under my belt, and my paediatric training completed, I needed a new challenge. I decided to launch into the deep waters of qualitative research. Stepping out with some trepidation into semistructured interviews and grounded theory, I soon found that the water was neither...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sidebotham P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that because of vascular interchange between the monozygous twins vascular disruptions from a deceased cotwin with disseminated intravascular coagulation causes embolisation in the surviving twin. This study reports six cases in which all the surviving monozygous twins had central nervous system ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Szymonowicz W,Preston H,Yu VY

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A problem-orientated case record was used for the investigation and management of neonatal jaundice. Investigation of babies requiring phototherapy rarely showed any abnormality but we consider that such routine investigations are worth retaining. There were problems in the interpretation of moderately low plasma conc...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mathew PM,Wharton BA

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum concentrations of tri-iodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4), and thyrotrophin (TSH) were measured in 10 term newborn infants between birth and the age of 2 days by radioimmunoassay. The mean concentration of T3 in maternal serum was 1.62 mug/l, and it increased from the low cord blood level of 0-63 mug/l to the...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Similä S,Koivisto M,Ranta T,Leppäluoto J,Reinilä M,Haapalahti J

更新日期：1975-07-01 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:Asians have a smaller muscle mass and a larger fat mass at the same body mass index (BMI) than most other ethnic groups. Due to a resulting higher cardiometabolic risk, the BMI cut-offs for overweight and obesity were lowered for adults. For Asian children universal criteria apply. The objectives of this stu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Wilde JA,Zandbergen-Harlaar S,van Buuren S,Middelkoop BJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some victims of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) are found with their heads covered with bedclothes, but the significance of this is uncertain. The aim of this review is to describe the prevalence of head covering, the magnitude of the risk and how far the suggested causal mechanisms agree with current ep...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Blair PS,Mitchell EA,Heckstall-Smith EM,Fleming PJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:It is often assumed that prolonged time to diagnosis (TTD) for cancer negatively influences overall survival and survivorship through advanced stage disease at diagnosis. This systematic review assesses existing early diagnosis research in childhood and young adult cancer and aims to identify whether a consensu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lethaby CD,Picton S,Kinsey SE,Phillips R,van Laar M,Feltbower RG

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with multiple congenital scalp defects, over two generations and probably genetically determined, is described. Although alarming in appearance, surgical intervention is not indicated at least for small lesions. The risk of haemorrhage and meningitis is emphasized. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lassman LP,Sims DG

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine whether the British 1990 growth charts are valid for cross sectional and longitudinal use in primary school children. METHODS:A total of 694 children aged 7-10 years from 10 Leeds primary schools were weighed and measured annually over three years by an expert auxologist. SD scores were calculated us...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rudolf MC,Cole TJ,Krom AJ,Sahota P,Walker J

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00