Overwhelming sepsis presenting as sudden unexpected death.

abstract：:The role of budesonide in controlling chest symptoms in infants was assessed. It was administered from a metered dose inhaler into a large volume spacer (Nebuhaler) with attached Laerdal mask. Twenty nine infants were recruited into a double blind crossover trial. Five defaulted. The remaining 24 (mean age 11 months) ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Noble V,Ruggins NR,Everard ML,Milner AD

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 164 children born within the defined boundaries of greater Manchester during the years 1981 to 1984 inclusive were identified as having bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, giving a prevalence of 1.2/1000 population of 1/817 births. Ninety three children developed an additional conductive hearing loss sec...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Das VK

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：:Two patients with raised intracranial pressure responding to ventriculoperitoneal shunting are described in whom ultrasound failed to show dilated ventricles. The importance of not equating absence of ventricular dilatation with normal pressure and ventricular dilatation with high pressure is emphasised. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pilling DW,Cudmore RE

更新日期：1985-06-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:To define better the adult phenotype and natural history of Noonan syndrome. DESIGN:A prospective observational study of a large cohort. RESULTS:Data are presented for 112 individuals with Noonan syndrome (mean age 25.3 (range 12-71) years), who were followed up for a mean of 12.02 years. Mutations in PTPN1...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shaw AC,Kalidas K,Crosby AH,Jeffery S,Patton MA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of partial trisomy of the long arm of chromosome 3 (3q21 leads to qter) is described. The clinical findings are compared with those in 5 previously reported cases. There is hirsutism and characteristic facial dysmorphism, the common features of which are a square-shaped face, prominent nasal bridge, everted nos...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fear C,Briggs A

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adult woman with pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism had a child with normal calcium and parathyroid hormone concentrations and cyclic AMP response to injected parathyroid hormone in infancy. By 2.5 years he had features of pseudohypoparathyroidism with raised parathyroid hormone and 'flat' cyclic AMP response. This is ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Barr DG,Stirling HF,Darling JA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mauriac syndrome is characterised by growth failure, cushingoid appearance and hepatomegaly which occurs in patients with insulin dependent diabetes and was first described shortly after the introduction of insulin as a treatment for the condition. OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical features, histological f...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fitzpatrick E,Cotoi C,Quaglia A,Sakellariou S,Ford-Adams ME,Hadzic N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a multicentre study on perinatal HIV-I infection including 1493 children born from 1471 pregnancies to 1415 infected mothers, 22 twin pairs and 56 sibships (115 children) were recorded. The frequency of twin pregnancies was 1.5 (22/1471) and 3.9% (56/1415) seropositive women had more than one at risk pregnancy. In ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Martino M,Tovo PA,Galli L,Caselli D,Gabiano C,Mazzoni PL,Giacomelli A,Duse M,Fundarò C

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Risk assessment for venous thromboembolism (VTE) and thromboprophylaxis in those with risk factors is established in adult practice. Evidence to support efficacy and safety of this approach in adolescents is lacking. We aimed to describe thrombotic risk factors and to determine the proportion of potentially p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Biss T,Alikhan R,Payne J,Alamelu J,Williams M,Richards M,Mathias M,Tunstall O,Chalmers E

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore how parents navigate urgent and emergency care (U&EC) services when their child <5 years old has a feverish illness, their views of that experience and whether services are meeting their needs and triaging in line with national guidance. DESIGN:Parents of a febrile child <5 years old contacting a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Maguire S,Ranmal R,Komulainen S,Pearse S,Maconochie I,Lakhanpaul M,Davies F,Kai J,Stephenson T,RCPCH Fever Project Board.

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A postal survey of recently appointed consultant paediatricians was undertaken to determine whether they perceived their training had adequately equipped them for their current job. The response rate was 69% (207/299). After excluding replies from consultants trained outside the UK the analysis was carried out on 167 ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lenton SW,Dison PJ,Haines LC

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A register has been compiled of the 421 children with congenital cerebral palsy born between 1960 and 1975 from a defined geographical area of North East England (population 770 000). There was a fall in the rate of cerebral palsy among very low birthweight babies between 1964 and 1975 and also in the small group with...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jarvis SN,Holloway JS,Hey EN

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc absorption was measured in 37 children with malnutrition using the oral zinc tolerance test (22.5 mg elementary zinc) and the results compared with those of a group of healthy control subjects. The increase in plasma zinc was significantly lower in patients with marasmic kwashiorkor than in the control group. The...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Atalay Y,Arcasoy A,Kürkçüoğlu M

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To use a combined single document clinical case sheet/computer record which can form the basic document for a life medical record is a practical proposition. With adequate briefing doctors and nurses soon become familiar with the record and appreciate its value. Secretarial and clerical requirements are reduced to a m...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Walker CH

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 20 children needing treatment for symptomatic sick sinus syndrome, the average age at presentation was 7.1 years and ranged from 9 months to 18 years. Symptoms were never precise but, in retrospect, 5 children had syncope, 7 had a rapid heart action, 6 had dyspnoea or tachypnoea, 2 had nonspecific chest pains, 2 ha...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Radford DJ,Izukawa T

更新日期：1975-11-01 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：:Syncope in childhood is very common. The vast majority of episodes are benign, and are due to neurocardiogenic syncope. Only a minority are due to something potentially more serious or life threatening. The diagnosis and differentiation of benign from more serious causes of syncope is made primarily by the history. In...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McLeod KA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In depth confidential inquiries on all post-perinatal infant deaths were carried out for two years in North and Southern Derbyshire District Health Authorities in order to explore why the postperinatal death rates and cot death rates have been consistently higher in Southern than in North Derbyshire. It was found that...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Newlands M,Adamson E,Ghulam S,Saleh M,Emery JL

更新日期：1991-12-01 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:Following recent reports of increased numbers of adolescents being diagnosed with the adult or type 2 form of diabetes we aimed to describe the prevalence of both type 2 and other forms of diabetes in an urban population of children and young people in northern England. METHODS:A hospital based cro...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Feltbower RG,McKinney PA,Campbell FM,Stephenson CR,Bodansky HJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To describe the prevalence of depression in children with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and investigate the relationship between depression in CFS/ME and clinical symptoms such as fatigue, disability, pain and school attendance. DESIGN:Cross-sectional survey data using the Hos...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bould H,Collin SM,Lewis G,Rimes K,Crawley E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To describe the epidemiology of children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) admitted to paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in the UK. METHODS:Prospective collection of clinical and demographic information from paediatric and adult intensive care units in the UK and Eire between February 2001 and August 2003. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Parslow RC,Morris KP,Tasker RC,Forsyth RJ,Hawley CA,UK Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Study Steering Group.,Paediatric Intensive Care Society Study Group.

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The auditory function of 370 infants, drawn from both low and high risk groups, was tested before postnatal discharge using three tests: standard auditory brain stem responses (ABR), automated analysis of ABR, and automated analysis of evoked otoacoustic emissions (OAE). All infants failing any neonatal test had furth...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kennedy CR,Kimm L,Dees DC,Evans PI,Hunter M,Lenton S,Thornton RD

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an electronic inhaler timer device (Nebulizer Chronolog), compliance with the prescribed frequency of inhaled prophylactic medication in 14 asthmatic children was measured. Underuse occurred in 55% of study days while overuse occurred in only 2%. Such devices provide an important new tool for investigating inhal...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Coutts JA,Gibson NA,Paton JY

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective follow up of 116 high risk infants, a 24 hour behavioural chart on seven consecutive days was analysed at seven and 12 weeks of age. Of children who manifested atopic disease at 2 years, 44/116 (38%), had shown significantly more fussing during the seventh, and colic type cry during the twelfth week t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kalliomäki M,Laippala P,Korvenranta H,Kero P,Isolauri E

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twice daily sustained release theophylline gave satisfactory steady serum theophylline concentrations in asthmatic children aged 7 to 14 years. The children showed improvement in symptoms, less frequent waking at night, reduced use of beta agonist inhalers, and improved early morning peak flows while being treated wit...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elias-Jones AC,Higenbottam TW,Barnes ND,Godden DJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00