Cerebral, renal and splenic lesions due to fetal anoxia and their relationship to malformations.

abstract：AIM:To elucidate the relation between motor impairment and other developmental deficits in very preterm-born children without disabling cerebral palsy and term-born comparison children at 5 years of (corrected) age. METHOD:In a prospective cohort study, 165 children (81 very preterm-born and 84 term-born)were assessed...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Van Hus JW,Potharst ES,Jeukens-Visser M,Kok JH,Van Wassenaer-Leemhuis AG

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare the cumulative efficacy (three treatment sessions) of botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) alone, casting alone, and the combination of BTX-A and casting in the management of dynamic equinus in ambulatory children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). Thirty-nine children with spastic CP (mea...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ackman JD,Russman BS,Thomas SS,Buckon CE,Sussman MD,Masso P,Sanders J,D'Astous J,Aiona MD,Shriners Hospitals BTX-A Study Group.

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied whether children with severe developmental disabilities (SDDs) who have a comorbid behavioral disorder also have higher rates of special healthcare needs (SHCNs). We used a matched-comparison control group design to establish whether SHCNs were higher in children with SDDs with behavioral disorders versus c...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kennedy CH,Juárez AP,Becker A,Greenslade K,Harvey MT,Sullivan C,Tally B

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Lack of muscle growth relative to bone growth may be responsible for development of contractures in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Here, we used ultrasonography to compare growth of the medial gastrocnemius muscle in children with and without CP. METHOD:Twenty-six children with spastic CP (15 males, 11 females...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Herskind A,Ritterband-Rosenbaum A,Willerslev-Olsen M,Lorentzen J,Hanson L,Lichtwark G,Nielsen JB

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We compared the clinical utility of magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) to catheter cerebral angiography (CA) in the investigation of children with suspected central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis. METHOD:Single-centre retrospective review of children with a suspected diagnosis of CNS vasculitis studied with bot...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Eleftheriou D,Cox T,Saunders D,Klein NJ,Brogan PA,Ganesan V

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To collect preliminary functional data on ataxia telangiectasia and create a disease specific scale: the Ataxia Telangiectasia Functional Scale (ATFS). METHOD:Retrospective information on patients with ataxia telangiectasia referred to the Assistive Technology Unit was included. Functional mobility scales (the Gro...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Shenhod E,Benzeev B,Sarouk I,Heimer G,Nissenkorn A

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine the descriptive epidemiology of vision impairment among 6- to 10-year-old children in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Children with vision impairment (n=310; 42% black, 56% white; 57% male, 43% female), defined as a best corrected visual acuity in the better eye of 20/70 ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mervis CA,Boyle CA,Yeargin-Allsopp M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe four children with dysmorphic syndrome with severe learning disability (SLD). Their chromosomes had been normal on conventional cytogenetic examination. However, screening using a multiprobe fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) technique for subtelomeric abnormalities revealed a deletion of the p arm ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Knight-Jones E,Knight S,Heussler H,Regan R,Flint J,Martin K

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological integrity in sick children is difficult to assess clinically. The aim of this study was to determine the predictive value of EEG activity recorded with a bedside EEG analysing monitor in an intensive care unit. EEG activity was monitored in 108 children (age range 2 weeks to 16 years, median 1.7 years) co...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Murdoch-Eaton D,Darowski M,Livingston J

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To briefly outline the strengths and limitations of cerebral palsy (CP) registers, and to report on findings of the Australian Cerebral Palsy Register (ACPR) pertaining to a population cohort of children with CP. METHOD:De-identified data were extracted from the ACPR for people with CP in birth years 1993 to 2006,...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Smithers-Sheedy H,McIntyre S,Gibson C,Meehan E,Scott H,Goldsmith S,Watson L,Badawi N,Walker K,Novak I,Blair E,Australian Cerebral Palsy Register Group.

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homocystinuria due to 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency may present with variable neurological manifestations. Radiological features include white matter changes (leukoencephalopathy). Clinical, biochemical, and radiological response to treatment may again be variable. Here we present a 12-year follo...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Tallur KK,Johnson DA,Kirk JM,Sandercock PA,Minns RA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a survey conducted by a UK urban general practice, 98.1 per cent (1083) of the children registered aged three to 11 years took part in an interview. Possible migraine subjects took part in an extended interview, the results of which were recorded using three different sets of diagnostic criteria: Vahlquist, Ad Hoc ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mortimer MJ,Kay J,Jaron A

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral palsy (CP) is a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders associated with lifelong motor impairment and disability. Current intervention programmes aim to capitalize on the neuroplasticity of the undamaged part of the brain to improve motor functions, by engaging individuals in active motor learning...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Diaz Heijtz R,Forssberg H

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the association between epilepsy and perinatal brain injury in a cohort of 610 infants born preterm at <33 weeks' gestation. The prevalence of epilepsy in this cohort was 4.3% as determined by a postal questionnaire survey. Most children with epilepsy (16 of 24) had high-risk c...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Amess PN,Baudin J,Townsend J,Meek J,Roth SC,Neville BG,Wyatt JS,Stewart A

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 115 children with dyskinetic cerebral palsy (CP) in the Mersey region, 17 were born at term and at an appropriate weight for age, and have preserved cognitive abilities. 10 of these are likely to have sustained intrapartum asphyxial brain-damage as the cause of their CP. In such circumstances, a characteristic patt...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rosenbloom L

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of spastic cerebral palsy on in vivo gastrocnemius muscle fascicle length is not clear. Similarity of fascicle lengths in children with diplegia and typically developing children, but shortening of fascicle lengths in the paretic legs of children with hemiplegia compared with the non-paretic legs, are both ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mohagheghi AA,Khan T,Meadows TH,Giannikas K,Baltzopoulos V,Maganaris CN

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parents and paediatric neurologists need information on the long-term social prognosis of children with cerebral palsy (CP). No large population-based study has been performed on this topic. On 31 December 1999, to find predictors in childhood of subsequent education and employment, 819 participants with CP born betwe...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Michelsen SI,Uldall P,Kejs AM,Madsen M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the spectrum and relationships between gait patterns and motor function in a population-based cross study of children with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD:Children identified with unilateral CP born in Victoria, Australia, from 1990 to 1992 were eligible to participate. Characteristics were r...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Dobson F,Morris ME,Baker R,Graham HK

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiating a sudden-onset concomitant squint from a paralytic squint in an ill child can be difficult, but the distinction is important in view of the neurological implications of the latter. Furthermore, the two types may co-exist, and four such cases are described. The causes of sudden-onset squint are discusse...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Watson AP,Fielder AR

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper reports the second of two studies designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Kinaesthetic Training Programme (Laszlo and Bairstow, 1985) for children with movement difficulties. Three groups of 12 children were matched on age, IQ and sex as well as degree of kinaesthetic and motor impairment. One group re...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Sims K,Henderson SE,Morton J,Hulme C

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common synaptic drive shared between two groups of motor neurones synchronizes the timing of discharges between the motor-neurone groups. Recordings were made of motor-unit discharges during cocontraction of ipsilateral pairs of thumb muscles in eight subjects with cerebral palsy (CP) aged 4 to 13 years and eight ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gibbs J,Harrison LM,Stephens JA,Evans AL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four infants were studied who failed to show any visual interest or following responses in the first three months of life. Although no definite ocular abnormalities were found at the time of presentation, both the parents and their medical advisers initially had serious concerns about the infants' visual prognosis. In...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Mellor DH,Fielder AR

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to traditional neurophysiological theory, consciousness requires neocortical functioning, and children born without cerebral hemispheres necessarily remain indefinitely in a developmental vegetative state. Four children between 5 and 17 years old are reported with congenital brain malformations involving tot...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Shewmon DA,Holmes GL,Byrne PA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year old girl is described who acquired conduction aphasia after head trauma. Detailed study of her repetition defect showed that it was because of impaired short-term verbal memory. CT scan showed two hypodense areas in the left hemisphere, which included the supramarginal gyrus and Wernicke's area. This case i...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Martins IP,Ferro JM

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical activity has significant health benefits and is positively associated with health-related quality of life and psychosocial functioning. Persons with disability are at particular risk of inactivity. For adults with cerebral palsy (CP), impaired health and function typically impede participation in physical act...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Thorpe D

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the influence of supracondylar femoral derotation osteotomy (FDO) on hip abduction muscle force and frontal hip moments in children with bilateral cerebral palsy. METHOD:For this retrospective cohort study 79 children (36 females, 43 males; mean age at surgery 11y [SD 3y]; range 4-17y) with bilateral c...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Thielen M,Wolf SI,Klotz MCM,Geisbüsch A,Putz C,Krautwurst B,Dreher T

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although prematurity and hypoxic-ischaemic injury are well-recognized contributors to the pathogenesis of cerebral palsy (CP), as many as one-third of children with CP may lack traditional risk factors. For many of these children, a genetic basis to their condition is suspected. Recent findings have implicated copy nu...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Fahey MC,Maclennan AH,Kretzschmar D,Gecz J,Kruer MC

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental dysphasia, a severe childhood learning disorder, is thought to result from problems in hemispheric specialization involving both left and right cerebral hemispheres. Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was measured at rest and during stimulation of both hemispheres independently: dichotic listening for t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Chiron C,Pinton F,Masure MC,Duvelleroy-Hommet C,Leon F,Billard C

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic hypothermia is among the adjuvant therapies suggested for refractory or super-refractory status epilepticus (R/SR-SE) in paediatric patients. Experimental evidence of neuroprotective and antiseizure effects provides a strong rationale for using therapeutic hypothermia in patients with status epilepticus. T...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Legriel S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneomuscular reflexes were recorded from the first dorsal interosseous muscles of 21 children with spastic cerebral palsy. The reflex responses in children with cerebral palsy were consistent with dysfunction of the pyramidal system, but differed from those seen in adults with central nervous lesions. This provides...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Evans AL,Harrison LM,Stephens JA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00