Childhood cancers in Zambia before and after the HIV epidemic.

abstract：:Determinations of body height and calculations of growth velocity are still the major parameters for the assessment of normal and aberrant growth. The present study was performed to investigate the minimum time interval between consecutive measurements that is necessary for a statement on significant length increment ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hermanussen M,Burmeister J

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:Renal candidal bezoar is uncommonly encountered in neonatal intensive care. An affected neonate who improved only after surgical removal of obstructive fungus from the renal pelvis and local irrigation with amphotericin B is described. The need for early consideration of surgical intervention is stressed. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rehan VK,Davidson DC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to compare quality of life (QoL) among children and adolescents with different stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and determine factors associated with changes in QoL. DESIGN:Cross-sectional. SETTING:The Kids with CKD study involved five of eight paediatric nephrology units in Australia and ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Francis A,Didsbury MS,van Zwieten A,Chen K,James LJ,Kim S,Howard K,Williams G,Bahat Treidel O,McTaggart S,Walker A,Mackie F,Kara T,Nassar N,Teixeira-Pinto A,Tong A,Johnson D,Craig JC,Wong G

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social inequalities in a variety of indicators of child health were measured using a 'small area' geographical method of social classification. Cross sectional analyses of routine child health information and of a population survey of the height of primary school children were used. Social classification was by census...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reading R,Jarvis S,Openshaw S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) and 7 (HHV-7) infections were identified in febrile children by qualitative and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays. Diagnosis was based on the differential detection of viral DNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), but not in saliva. Six of 41 febrile infa...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Clark DA,Kidd IM,Collingham KE,Tarlow M,Ayeni T,Riordan A,Griffiths PD,Emery VC,Pillay D

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:A paucity of evidence regarding the natural history of congenital pulmonary airway malformations (CPAMs) and pulmonary sequestration (PS) has resulted in a divergence in management strategy of asymptomatic cases. METHODS:We describe the long-term clinical course of 119 children diagnosed with these lesions ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cook J,Chitty LS,De Coppi P,Ashworth M,Wallis C

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of a questionnaire returned by 20 doctors giving information of 249 schools showed that many of the rooms made available to school health services are inadequate in terms of physical resources and privacy. A higher set of standards is recommended to enable schools and pupils to derive maximum benefit from comm...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Henshelwood J,Polnay L

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) is a rare multisystem disease with high early mortality from lung disease and cancer. Nutritional failure adversely impacts outcomes in many respiratory diseases. Several factors influence nutrition in children with A-T. We hypothesised that children with A-T have progressive grow...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Stewart E,Prayle AP,Tooke A,Pasalodos S,Suri M,Bush A,Bhatt JM

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:The range of thermal control and the thermoneutral range of preterm infants under 30 weeks' gestation was calculated by extrapolation of data from studies on more mature infants. Even assuming some thermoregulatory capacity, the range of control is less than 3 degrees C, the thermoneutral range is less than 0.5 degree...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wheldon AE,Hull D

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Children's exposure to racism via caregiver experience (vicarious racism) is associated with poorer health and development. However, the relationship with child healthcare utilisation is unknown. We aimed to investigate (1) the prevalence of vicarious racism by child ethnicity; (2) the association between ca...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Paine SJ,Harris R,Stanley J,Cormack D

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allergic response is distinct from other immune reactions in its reliance on IgE, its high affinity receptor, Fc epsilon RI, and the primary effector cell--the tissue mast cell. Positive skin tests or raised concentrations of specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) in the serum define IgE sensitisation or "atopy". IgE par...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Milgrom H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the rate and nature of anxiety symptoms and disorders in children, and their relation to social adversities in a cultural sample not previously researched. METHODS:237 children aged 9 to 13 years living in the Gaza Strip were selected randomly from 112 schools. Children completed the revised manifes...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thabet AA,Vostanis P

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Data on acute paediatric anaphylaxis presentations to the emergency department (ED) are limited. All allergic presentations to one Australian paediatric ED were studied to determine epidemiological, clinical, and outcome data. METHODS:Retrospective, case based study of patients under 16 years atten...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Braganza SC,Acworth JP,Mckinnon DR,Peake JE,Brown AF

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy six children, 18 boys and 58 girls, aged 0-15.9 (median 1.0) years, with acute pyelonephritis were prospectively studied with a technetium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scan during infection and two months later. Fifty nine of these children were also studied two years after the infection. Seventeen child...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jakobsson B,Berg U,Svensson L

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the provision of UK paediatric and adolescent diabetes services and examine changes in service delivery since 2002. METHOD:Questionnaires were sent to the lead paediatric consultant from all paediatric and adolescent diabetes services (n=205). Questions were based on National Institute for Health and Cli...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gosden C,Edge JA,Holt RI,James J,Turner B,Winocour P,Walton C,Nagi D,Williams R,Matyka K

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practice of general paediatricians in the initial evaluation of congenital hypothyroidism (CHT) was assessed. This was performed by a questionnaire survey of paediatricians in East Anglia of whom 84% responded. Nineteen of 25 clinicians based in seven district hospitals managed children with CHT. The median number...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ahmed SF,Barnes ND,Hughes IA

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Anomalies of the bronchial cilia were studied in 5 children with recurrent pulmonary infections. Case 1 had Kartagener's syndrome and an absence of the inner and outer dynein arms in most cilia, although a few shortened and even some normal arms could be seen. Cases 2 and 3 had unilateral bronchiectasis without family...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Corbeel L,Cornillie F,Lauweryns J,Boel M,van den Berghe G

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolites of vitamin D were measured in plasma from 83 patients with idiopathic infantile hypercalcaemia syndrome who were mentally handicapped but had normal calcium values at the time of the study. No significant difference was detected in the mean plasma concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D2, 1,25-dihydroxyvitam...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Martin ND,Snodgrass GJ,Cohen RD,Porteous CE,Coldwell RD,Trafford DJ,Makin HL

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To reduce the overall expenditure on melatonin for the local health economy by working collaboratively with the CCG's. To ensure that all paediatric patients prescribed melatonin have been clinically assessed by a specialist and the most appropriate formulation is dispensed. METHOD:Evaluation of GP melatonin presc...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Haley H

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female genital mutilation (FGM) is almost always performed on children and consequently paediatricians should have a central role in the detection and prevention of FGM. FGM has no health benefits and can cause lifelong damage to physical and psychological health. Extensive migration of FGM practising communities mean...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Creighton SM,Hodes D

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the accuracy of the interpretation of the chest film in delineating localised abnormalities of ventilation and perfusion, as well as the overall severity of airways obstruction, exercise tolerance, and clinical condition in children with cystic fibrosis. Radiographic findings in various regions of...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Coates AL,Boyce P,Shaw DG,Godfrey S,Mearns M

更新日期：1981-02-01 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：:Interstitial nephritis was diagnosed at renal biopsy in 10 previously healthy children. All had identical clinical symptoms: anaemia, raised sedimentation rate, low glomerular filtration rate, protein and leucocytes in the urine, but no bacteria; nine also had glycosuria. Six of the children had a history of recent in...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Koskimies O,Holmberg C

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung function measurements with and without a disposable bacterial filter were compared in 60 children. Although statistically significant, the reduction of lung function measurements caused by using bacterial filters was small and clinically irrelevant (2-4% of predicted for forced expiratory volume in one second and...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kamps AW,Vermeer K,Roorda RJ,Brand PL

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00