Disproportionate head growth retardation in cystic fibrosis.

abstract：:The output of the drug and the particle size produced by various nebulisers were assessed, and sensible nebulisation times for sodium cromoglycate calculated. Three of the four nebuliser systems tested produced over 80% of total drug output within the first five minutes of nebulisation. We suggest that five minutes is...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Callaghan C,Clark AR,Milner AD

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty six children with typical features of Angelman's syndrome, including global developmental delay, ataxia, episodes of paroxysmal laughter, seizures, and microcephaly were studied. The series included three sibships of three affected sisters, two affected brothers, and two affected sisters, respectively. The faci...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Robb SA,Pohl KR,Baraitser M,Wilson J,Brett EM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum antitoxoplasma titres were determined simultaneously by the direct agglutination and the indirect immunofluorescent tests in 52 children aged 2 to 16 years having chronic lymph node enlargement, mainly cervical. Direct agglutination titres were raised (64 to 4096) in 22 children (42%), but rarely in the control ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thomaidis T,Anastassea-Vlachou K,Mandalenaki-Lambrou C,Theodoridis C,Vrahnou E

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The epidemiology of congenital infections is ever changing, with a recent resurgence in syphilis infection rates seen in the UK. Identification of congenital infection is often delayed; early recognition and management of congenital infections is important. Testing modalities and investigations are often lim...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Penner J,Hernstadt H,Burns JE,Randell P,Lyall H

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the relationship between serum point-of-care (POC) ketones at triage and moderate-to-severe dehydration based on the validated Gorelick Scales. DESIGN, SETTING AND PATIENTS:Prospective unblinded study from April 2016 to February 2017 in a paediatric emergency department. Patients aged 1 month to...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Durnin S,Jones J,Ryan E,Howard R,Walsh S,Dawkins I,Blackburn C,O'Donnell SM,Barrett MJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 90% of children with cancer reside in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) where healthcare resources are scarce and allocation decisions difficult. The cost effectiveness of treating childhood cancers in these settings is unknown. The objective of the present work was to determine cost-effectiv...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bhakta N,Martiniuk AL,Gupta S,Howard SC

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in paediatric care mean that more children with complex medical problems (heart disease, neurodevelopmental problems and so on) are surviving their early years. This has important implications for the design and delivery of healthcare given their extensive multidisciplinary requirements and susceptibility to ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Aitchison K,McGeown H,Holden B,Watson M,Klaber RE,Hargreaves D

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the natural history of respiratory symptoms not labelled as asthma in primary schoolchildren. DESIGN:Repeat questionnaire survey of subgroups identified from a previous questionnaire survey after a two year delay. SUBJECTS:The original population of 5321 Sheffield children aged 8-9 years yielded 4...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Powell CV,Primhak RA

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 37 children with refractory wide-spread atopic eczema were treated with an antigen avoidance regimen comprising hospitalisation, exclusive feeding with an elemental formula for a median duration of 30 days, and measures to reduce exposure to pet and dust mite antigens at home. After the initial period of fo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Devlin J,David TJ,Stanton RH

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) raises issues of considerable importance to medical practitioners and paediatricians in particular. The case concerns the parental right to withhold consent to medical intervention that doctors believe to be necessary in a child's best interests. The dram...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elias-Jones AC,Samanta J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease is a rare form of primary pulmonary hypertension of unknown aetiology. Four cases were diagnosed in young patients. The diagnosis was suspected on the basis of clinical, radiological, echocardiographic, and catheter evidence and confirmed by taking a lung biopsy sample. In all patients...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Justo RN,Dare AJ,Whight CM,Radford DJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:A child showing signs of Henoch-Schönlein purpura developed a right tibiofibular vascular thrombosis. Antiphospholipid antibody tests were positive for both lupus anticoagulant and anticardiolipin antibodies. This suggests that an antiphospholipid syndrome should be considered in cases of Henoch-Schönlein purpura and ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Monastiri K,Selmi H,Tabarki B,Yacoub M,Mahjoub T,Essoussi AS

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six healthy children, born in the UK, travelled to their parental homeland and developed a severe form of traveller's diarrhoea. This was characterised by rapid loss of weight and chronic diarrhoea. On return to this country, investigation in 5 of them showed an abnormal, small intestinal mucosa. There was a high inci...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hutchins P,Hindocha P,Phillips A,Walker-Smith J

更新日期：1982-03-01 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：:The effect of phototherapy on plasma cyclic-AMP in newborn infants has been studied. Our results suggest that phototherapy does not produce appreciable changes in plasma cyclic-AMP levels. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Constantopoulos A,Karaboula K,Matsaniotis N

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased emphasis on strict glycaemic control of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in young patients may be expected to cause increases in rates of significant hypoglycaemia. To evaluate whether this is the case for a large population based sample of IDDM children and adolescents rates of severe (coma, convu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Davis EA,Keating B,Byrne GC,Russell M,Jones TW

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two neonates with acute infantile cerebral Gaucher's disease had prominent collodion skin. Ichthyosis has been described in some cases of metabolic lipid disorders, however, this is the first report of the association of lamellar desquamation of the newborn (collodion baby) with Gaucher's disease. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lui K,Commens C,Choong R,Jaworski R

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urinary citrate/creatinine ratio was evaluated in 25 children with idiopathic calcium urolithiasis and 24 controls. The mean (SD) urinary citrate/creatinine ratio in controls and patients was 0.510 (0.205) and 0.181 (0.076), respectively, a statistically significant difference. In neither group was there a relatio...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Akçay T,Konukoğlu D,Celik C

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate whether infants who died of SIDS were more likely to have higher acute and lifetime average exposures to outdoor carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) than comparison healthy infants. METHODS:A total of 169 case and 169 matched control infants born between 1988 and 1992, were studied. CO ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Klonoff-Cohen H,Lam PK,Lewis A

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic abdominal pain (CAP) is common among schoolchildren, but risk factors for its onset are still largely unknown. AIMS:To determine the frequency of onset of CAP in schoolchildren and investigate risk factors for its development. METHODS:1411 schoolchildren aged 11-14 years were recruited from schools...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： El-Metwally A,Halder S,Thompson D,Macfarlane GJ,Jones GT

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis was identified in 37 of 73 consecutive neonates with purulent conjunctivitis, including four delivered by caesarean section with intact membranes. Most (28/37) presented in the first week. Infection was significantly associated with referral from the community. Genital C. trachomatis infection wa...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Barry WC,Teare EL,Uttley AH,Wilson SA,McManus TJ,Lim KS,Gamsu H,Price JF

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical studies of pancreatic tissue from patients with cystic fibrosis associated with diabetes mellitus (CFDM) show increased numbers of somatostatin secreting delta cells. To look for a possible functional correlate to this finding basal and arginine stimulated plasma somatostatin and serum C peptide co...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Meacham LR,Caplan DB,McKean LP,Buchanan CN,Parks JS,Culler FL

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin concentrations were determined in 64 consecutively born preterm babies at birth and serially throughout each baby's stay in the neonatal unit. No significant IgG generation was found during the first 15 weeks of life, regression analysis giving an exponential decay model. Concentrations fell to 2 g/l or...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Conway SP,Dear PR,Smith I

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Anaphylaxis is a severe, potentially fatal allergic reaction best treated with intramuscular epinephrine via epinephrine auto-injectors (AAIs). Our published concerns over laceration injuries to young children associated with AAIs led to this service evaluation of the two administration methods: swing and jab...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pike LC,Tuthill D

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:Four child-protection scenarios were sent to 200 named/designated and non-named/non-designated doctors. The respondents judged each scenario as abuse or accident and indicated their degree of certainty. There was a 71% response rate. There were no significant differences in judgement or degrees of certainty of judgeme...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Power S

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Varicella universal vaccination (UV) has been implemented in many countries for several years. Nevertheless, varicella UV remains debated in Europe and few data are available on the real burden of infection. We assessed the burden of varicella in Belgium through analysis of hospitalised cases during a 1-year...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Blumental S,Sabbe M,Lepage P,Belgian Group for Varicella.

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with severe malnutrition (SAM) present to hospital with an array of complications, resulting in high mortality despite adherence to WHO guidelines. Diagnostic resources in developing countries are limited and bedside tests could help identify high-risk children. Dipstick urinalysis is a bedside scre...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thuo N,Ohuma E,Karisa J,Talbert A,Berkley JA,Maitland K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychotropic medication use by children in the USA has increased. We used the IMS MIDAS Prescribing Insights to examine prescribing trends in nine countries between the years 2000 and 2002. Trends in seven countries rose significantly from year 2000 to 2002; the UK had the highest increase (68%). ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wong IC,Murray ML,Camilleri-Novak D,Stephens P

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00