Assessment of risk factors for pneumonia in dysphagic children: significance of videofluoroscopic swallowing evaluation.

abstract：AIM:In female children with drug-resistant seizures and developmental delay from birth, atypical Rett syndrome caused by mutations in the CDKL5 gene should be considered. Several clinical features resemble classic Rett syndrome. Respiratory and sleep abnormalities are frequently present in Rett syndrome, whereas little...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hagebeuk EE,van den Bossche RA,de Weerd AW

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate ataxia rating scales in children for reliability and the effect of age and sex. METHOD:Three independent neuropaediatric observers cross-sectionally scored a set of paediatric ataxia rating scales in a group of 52 healthy children (26 males, 26 females) aged 4 to 16 years (mean age 10y 5mo SD 3y 11m...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Brandsma R,Spits AH,Kuiper MJ,Lunsing RJ,Burger H,Kremer HP,Sival DA,Childhood Ataxia and Cerebellar Group.

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Turner syndrome, a genetic disorder that results from the complete or partial absence of an X chromosome in females, has been associated with specific impairment in visuospatial cognition. Previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between parietal lobe abnormalities and visuospatial deficits in Turner syndrome...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Brown WE,Kesler SR,Eliez S,Warsofsky IS,Haberecht M,Reiss AL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chiari type II malformation (CII) is a congenital anomaly of the cerebellum and brainstem, both important structures for processing smooth ocular pursuit. CII is associated with myelomeningocele and hydrocephalus. We investigated the effects of CII on smooth pursuit (SP) eye movements, and determined the effects of sp...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Salman MS,Sharpe JA,Lillakas L,Steinbach MJ,Dennis M

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Converging evidence indicates that motor deficits in cerebral palsy (CP) are related not only to problems with execution, but also to impaired motor planning. Current rehabilitation mainly focuses on alleviating compromised motor execution. Motor imagery is a promising method of training the more 'cognitive' aspects o...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Steenbergen B,Crajé C,Nilsen DM,Gordon AM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) have difficulty maintaining adequate levels of oxygenation during rest, it was decided to investigate how the additional respiratory demands associated with nutritive feeding disrupt their breathing rates. The sucking and breathing patterns of six (three male, three fem...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Craig CM,Lee DN,Freer YN,Laing IA

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postural sway and gait of 35 children with convergent strabismus were tested and compared with those of a control group. They were found to have a short stride-length and single-limb support time in walking, particularly at slow speeds. The girls had a large postural sway, but not the boys. The results suggest a commo...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Odenrick P,Sandstedt P,Lennerstrand G

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The headache histories obtained from 214 children were analysed by computer to see whether it was possible to identify and classify migraine, and to distinguish children with psychogenic headache. During headache attacks, most children had no or very few associated symptoms. For classification, 175 patients were divid...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rossi LN,Cortinovis I,Bellettini G,Brunelli G,Bossi A

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the development and preliminary psychometric testing of the Daily Activities of Infants Scale (DAIS), a parent-completed measure of opportunities parents provide infants for development of postural control and movement. First we obtained 1300 photographs of typical activities from 17 families with infants ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bartlett DJ,Fanning JK,Miller L,Conti-Becker A,Doralp S

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate if communication ability and method were related to each other and to age, sex, gross motor function, or manual ability in children with cerebral palsy. METHOD:This cross-sectional study used data registered in the Swedish Cerebral Palsy Surveillance Program registry, involving 3000 children aged 0 ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kristoffersson E,Dahlgren Sandberg A,Holck P

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：AIM:Mutations in the SLC16A2 gene have been implicated in Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (AHDS), an X-linked learning disability* syndrome associated with thyroid function test (TFT) abnormalities. Delayed myelination is a non-specific finding in individuals with learning disability whose genetic basis is often uncertai...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Gika AD,Siddiqui A,Hulse AJ,Edward S,Fallon P,McEntagart ME,Jan W,Josifova D,Lerman-Sagie T,Drummond J,Thompson E,Refetoff S,Bönnemann CG,Jungbluth H

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four infants developed dyskinesia after cardiopulmonary bypass surgery three to four days postoperatively. The dyskinesia was choreoathetotic, and involved mainly the mouth, tongue and face. It was absent during sleep. Three of these infants improved over periods of several weeks, but one infant remained dyskinetic on...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Huntley DT,al-Mateen M,Menkes JH

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We aimed to evaluate the contribution of early magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the presymptomatic diagnosis of Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) in infants with a facial port-wine birthmark (PWB). METHOD:Asymptomatic infants with a facial PWB who performed a first MRI scan before 3 months and a second MRI scan afte...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bar C,Pedespan JM,Boccara O,Garcelon N,Levy R,Grévent D,Boddaert N,Nabbout R

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum thyroid hormone levels were measured in women living in an area of severe dietary iodine deficiency in a remote region of Papua New Guinea. Levels of maternal hormone were found to be related to the motor competence of the women's offspring, who were aged between six years and 11 years 10 months at the time of a...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Pharoah P,Connolly K,Hetzel B,Ekins R

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-five schoolchildren who share a common history of early undernutrition and who were reared after recovery by adoptive families (16), in institutional care (eight) or by their biological families (11) were assessed for physical and intellectual outcome. The adopted children had mean normal weight and height for ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Colombo M,de la Parra A,López I

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of mitochondrial disease is often a challenge because of the extreme heterogeneity of the clinical phenotype and the variety of underlying gene defects. Insight into the range of clinical phenotypes associated with a particular mitochondrial DNA mutation will facilitate better recognition of patients at risk...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Van Karnebeek CD,Waters PJ,Sargent MA,Mezei MM,Wong LJ,Wang J,Stöckler-Ipsiroglu S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of bowel and bladder control by day and at night during the first six years of life in 320 Swiss children in the Zurich longitudinal study (1955--1976) is described in detail. A scoring system was used which included intermediate stages of control. With toilet-training started in 96 per cent of the chi...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Largo RH,Stutzle W

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropometric data were collected on groups of seven-year-old Dunedin (New Zealand) boys, identified as hyperactive-only, aggressive-hyperactive, aggressive-only and non-aggressive/non-hyperactive. Measures taken included stature, weight, skeletal maturity, mid-upper arm circumference, triceps and subscapular fatfold...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： McGee R,Birkbeck J,Silva PA

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with Down syndrome (DS), a disorder of known genetic etiology (trisomy of chromosome 21), exhibit several types of structural brain abnormalities that are detectable pathologically and by MRI. In addition, in middle age, individuals with DS develop histological and, in some cases, clinical features of Alzh...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Pearlson GD,Breiter SN,Aylward EH,Warren AC,Grygorcewicz M,Frangou S,Barta PE,Pulsifer MB

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Scoliosis is a frequently occurring and serious complication of severe cerebral palsy (CP). This systematic review aims to the assess the risk factors associated with the emergence and progression of scoliosis in children with CP functioning at level IV or V of the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS)...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Loeters MJ,Maathuis CG,Hadders-Algra M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored proximal-to-distal components during goal-directed reaching movements in children with mild or moderate hemiplegic cerebral palsy (HCP); [seven females, four males; mean age 8 y 6 mo; SD 27 mo], compared with age-matched, typically developing children (seven females, five males; mean age 8 y 3 mo [...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Domellöf E,Rösblad B,Rönnqvist L

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the development of a new diagnostic motor performance test to spare more children from painful muscle biopsy, seven functional items were used to measure muscle strength and muscle endurance in a prospective study on new patients. Over a 2-year period, 22 patients (12 males, 10 females; mean age 8y 1mo [SD 2y 6mo],...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： van den Beld WA,van der Sanden GA,Feuth T,Janssen AJ,Sengers RC,Verbeek AL,Gabreëls FJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term test-retest reliability of the 10-metre fast walk test (10mFWT) and 6-minute walk test (6MWT) was evaluated in 31 ambulatory children with cerebral palsy (CP), with subgroup analyses in Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) Levels I (n=9), II (n=8), and III (n=14). Sixteen females and 15 males ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Thompson P,Beath T,Bell J,Jacobson G,Phair T,Salbach NM,Wright FV

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case series describes three children with chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS), an inflammatory condition characterized by a relapsing-remitting disease course responsive to steroids. The patients (two males, age 3y and 13y; one female, age 14y) ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Sa M,Green L,Abdel-Mannan O,Chong WKK,Jacques T,Clarke A,Childs AM,Lim M,Hemingway C,Hacohen Y

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:A 13-year-old boy with Hodgkin's disease developed acute polyneuropathy and autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Sural nerve biopsy and postmortem examination demonstrated no metastatic involvement and a lack of cellular inflammatory infiltration in the nervous system. There was significant axonal degeneration in peripheral n...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Kurczynski TW,Choudhury AA,Horwitz SJ,Roessmann U,Gross S

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine children (five males, four females; age range 6 years 1 month to 11 years 1 month) affected by benign epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal or Rolandic spikes (BECRS) with EEG evidence of marked activation of interictal epileptic discharges (IEDs) during sleep, and nine unaffected control children matched for...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Baglietto MG,Battaglia FM,Nobili L,Tortorelli S,De Negri E,Calevo MG,Veneselli E,De Negri M

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:New tools that capture hand function in everyday activities and contexts are needed for assessing children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. This study evaluates a wearable wrist monitor and tests the hypothesis that wrist extension frequency (FreqE) is an appropriate indicator of functional hand use. METHOD:Fifteen...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Howcroft J,Fehlings D,Zabjek K,Fay L,Liang J,Biddiss E

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We have previously demonstrated improved cognitive performance after a classroom-based exercise regime. In this study, we examined the reproducibility of this effect in a more socio-economically diverse sample and also investigated whether cognitive benefits of exercise were moderated by body mass index (BMI) or sy...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hill LJ,Williams JH,Aucott L,Thomson J,Mon-Williams M

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00