Reye's syndrome; diagnosis by muscle biopsy?

abstract：:National trends in the survival of low birthweight infants for the years 1953 to 1979 were examined. While stillbirth and day 1-28 mortality rates improved steadily throughout this period, day 0 mortality did not start to fall until the mid-1960s and then it improved in all birthweight groups. This suggests that speci...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pharoah PO,Alberman ED

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracies of chromogenic agar and the GeneXpert real-time PCR system (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, USA) for admission methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening of 1336 consecutive paediatric intensive care unit patients (1282 evaluable swab results) were determined using enrichment culture a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gray J,Patel M,Turner H,Reynolds F

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A boy with fatal I-cell disease is reported. Defective ganglioside and glycoprotein metabolism is due to deficient neuraminidase activity. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Milla PJ

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish the incidence of childhood coeliac disease (CD) in Scotland between 1 September 2009 and 31 August 2010, to determine clinical features at presentation and reasons for diagnosis, and to identify any differences in incidence and practice between regions. DESIGN:Prospective data collection throug...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： White LE,Bannerman E,McGrogan P,Kastner-Cole D,Carnegie E,Gillett PM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide the first estimate of the cost-effectiveness of financial incentive for breastfeeding intervention compared with usual care. DESIGN:Within-cluster ('ward'-level) randomised controlled trial cost-effectiveness analysis (trial registration number ISRCTN44898617). SETTING:Five local authority distri...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Anokye N,Coyle K,Relton C,Walters S,Strong M,Fox-Rushby J

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of point-of-care lung ultrasound in neonatology is rapidly expanding. This review summarises current evidence of a diagnostic, procedural and observational tool valuable in the management of newborns requiring intensive care. Approaching a patient, probe in-hand with focused clinical question is essential,...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Woods PL

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary tract anomalies were prospectively investigated with ultrasound in 29 children with functional constipation. These children were compared before and after treatment with 451 age matched healthy controls without constipation. The bladder residue and upper renal tract dilatation after micturition were significan...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dohil R,Roberts E,Jones KV,Jenkins HR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neonate developed complete thrombosis of the abdominal aorta after catheterisation of the umbilical artery. This was successfully treated with an intravenous infusion of streptokinase. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kirk CR,Bhrolchain CN,Qureshi SA

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal sodium handling was studied in 23 children at three different stages of the minimal change nephrotic syndrome--the oedema forming state, proteinuric steady state, and remission. Clearances of inulin and para-aminohippuric acid and urinary sodium excretion were determined basally, after intravenous infusion of is...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bohlin AB,Berg U

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a meningococcal (group A) epidemic, 47 Nigerian children with acute meningococcaemia without meningitis were studied. Their mortality rate was 43% compared with 8% during the whole epidemic. Those presenting with coma and shock had a mortality of 93%, but without shock or coma mortality was only 6%. Coma or sho...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lewis LS

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism and excretion of paracetamol was studied in an infant of 29 weeks' gestation who was exposed to the drug when his mother ingested 32.5 g 16 hours before delivery. We have confirmed that sulphation is the major pathway and that the mixed function oxidase system is sufficiently active at this gestational ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lederman S,Fysh WJ,Tredger M,Gamsu HR

更新日期：1983-08-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:The number of trips to the tropics taken by children with chronic health disorders (CHDs) is increasing. METHODS:All of the children with CHDs who attended two international vaccination centres in France before travelling to the tropics were included in a prospective, exposed/unexposed study. Each child was...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ducrocq C,Sommet J,Levy D,Trieu TV,Quercia F,Morin L,Belletre X,Koehl B,Sorge F,Alberti C,de Pontual L,Faye A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of four generations of a family had a defect of serum opsonization for yeast phagocytosis consistent with dominant inheritance. 2 were healthy, one had chronic osteomyelitis, and the fourth developed a fatal illness in infancy characterized by exfoliative dermatitis, diarrhoea, multiple bacterial infections, a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Scott H,Moynahan EJ,Risdon RA,Harvey BA,Soothill JF

更新日期：1975-04-01 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 picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a computerised means of replacing the roles of conventional radiological film. This review describes the Hammersmith PACS, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of PACS systems. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Strickland NH

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty preterm infants (birthweight under 1500 g) were treated with phenobarbitone to examine its effectiveness in reducing the incidence of intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH), the control group comprising 28 infants. The treated group had 57% incidence of IVH and mortality of 13% compared with 68% and 14%, respective...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Anwar M,Kadam S,Hiatt IM,Hegyi T

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our current understanding regarding the aetiology of infantile acute liver failure largely derives from studies conducted by regional liver units. This may introduce selection bias and therefore not provide a true reflection of the wider population. METHODS:Every coagulation screen with a prothrombin time ≥...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wands D,Tayler R,Kelly D,Pinto F,Simpson JH,Hansen R

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:Eight patients with the middle aortic syndrome are described. They were aged 2 months to 14 years at diagnosis; follow up was one to 11 years. Clinical presentations included asymptomatic hypertension (n = 5), severe headache, nose bleed, and chest pain (n = 1), and cardiac failure (n = 1). All had severe hypertension...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sumboonnanonda A,Robinson BL,Gedroyc WM,Saxton HM,Reidy JF,Haycock GB

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Adherence to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication treatment is often suboptimal. This can compromise patient outcomes. We aimed to describe the patterns of ADHD medication use in Australian children, and characteristics associated with patterns of use. DESIGN:Dispensing data were analys...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Efron D,Mulraney M,Sciberras E,Hiscock H,Hearps S,Coghill D

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus presenting in children under five years old exhibits several clinical and management features that differ from diabetes presenting in older children. In this review of the current population of the Oxford children's diabetes clinic, children with diabetes diagnosed aged 0- less than...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jefferson IG,Smith MA,Baum JD

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although antibiotics are recommended for the primary care management of community-acquired pneumonia, a recent UK study reported that most children admitted to hospital had not received antibiotics. OBJECTIVE:To describe primary care antibiotic use for children subsequently hospitalised with community-acqui...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Grant CC,Harnden A,Mant D,Emery D,Coster G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the experiences and concerns of young people and their parents regarding the management of medication for asthma or diabetes whilst at school. METHODS:Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted with 69 young people aged 8-15 years (43 with asthma and 26 with diabetes) and their parents (...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Newbould J,Francis SA,Smith F

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:Many children who present with these acquired impairments of communication have a clear preceding event such as an acquired brain injury from a road traffic accident. Children often respond differently in this situation to adult presentations. They may have a period of mutism when the prognosis might look poor and yet...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Hare A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate gastric emptying and intestinal transit of pelleted pancreatin in relation to food boluses. METHODS:Dual isotope scintigraphy combined with breath hydrogen sampling was used to track the concurrent gastric emptying and intestinal transit of 111indium labelled microspheres and a 99mtechnetium l...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Taylor CJ,Hillel PG,Ghosal S,Frier M,Senior S,Tindale WB,Read N

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4 year old boy developed a profound motor neuropathy after repeated deliberate inhalation of petroleum vapour. The condition was characterised by extreme slowing of the nerve conduction velocity. He made a gradual recovery over six months. The neuropathy was attributed to the N-hexane component of petroleum. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hall DM,Ramsey J,Schwartz MS,Dookun D

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00