Comparison of the use of Tanner and Whitehouse, NCHS, and Cambridge standards in infancy.

abstract：:Clinical observations and findings on imaging are reported in six newborns with symmetrical thalamic lesions (STL). In three cases the diagnosis was confirmed by postmortem examination. Characteristic observations in this series and 17 previously reported cases include no evidence of perinatal asphyxia, high incidence...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Eicke M,Briner J,Willi U,Uehlinger J,Boltshauser E

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerns have been expressed in recent years about the decline in children's clinical and biomedical research in the UK, and in the paediatric academic workforce. Here I consider the extent to which these concerns are justified, the sweeping changes that have taken place in research funding, governance and organisatio...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Modi N

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined test of anterior pituitary function was used on 21 normal children. It shows that a comprehensive evaluation can be made of growth hormone, thyroid stimulating hormone, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, and gonadotrophin reserve. Simultaneous assessment of those peripheral glands associated with the anterior pi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Savage DC,Swift PG,Johnston PG,Goldie DJ,Murphy D

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective medical examination of children starting school has been operated in Cramlington for five years, and the data for the school year 1984-85 are reported. It is argued that the 'routine medical' is an outdated concept and that its abolition would allow more time for more important aspects of educational medicin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Callaghan EM,Colver AF

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of disseminated intravascular clotting (DIC) in the pathogenesis of the bleeding diathesis kwashiorkor was investigated in 22 patients. According to the severity of the clinical and haematological findings, two grades of DIC were observed. A severe grade of DIC was shown in 6 cases (5 fatal) presenting with ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hassanein EA,Tankovsky I

更新日期：1975-04-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To see if perineal sensation in infants with open spina bifida is associated with a better long-term outcome, particularly in terms of survival, renal-related deaths and incontinence. METHODS:We conducted a prospective cohort study on a complete cohort of 117 consecutive patients with open spina bifida, who...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Oakeshott P,Hunt GM,Whitaker RH,Kerry S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To measure drug adherence in children with mild asthma receiving long term prophylactic treatment. METHODS:Double blind randomised placebo controlled trial. Patients received inhaled budesonide 100 microg or 200 microg daily, or placebo for 27 months. All participants were asked to inhale medication or placebo fro...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jónasson G,Carlsen KH,Mowinckel P

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hospital clowning is a programme in healthcare facilities involving visits from specially trained actors. In the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), clowning may appear inappropriate and less intuitive. The patient could appear too ill and/or sedated, the environment too crowded or chaotic and the parents too stres...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mortamet G,Roumeliotis N,Vinit F,Simonds C,Dupic L,Hubert P

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：: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：:During the 6-year period from 1 October 1971 to 30 September 1977, 13 (about 1%) of 1225 admissions to hospital with asthma developed severe ventilatory failure (peak arterial PCO 2 greater than 8 kPa). Mean age was 4.1 years (2.3--7.9), and on average each patient had been admitted to hospital on 5 occasions during t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Simpson H,Mitchell I,Inglis JM,Grubb DJ

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on the efficacy and safety of long-acting β2-agonists (LABA) in children are limited, and current guidelines recommend that LABA always be used with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS). OBJECTIVE:To compare asthma control, assessed by rescue medications use, in children prescribed LABA and ICS as a fixed-dos...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elkout H,McLay JS,Simpson CR,Helms PJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to produce dihydroxylated metabolites of vitamin D was studied in a term neonate suffering from severe renal insufficiency. The infant died at age 26 days owing to end-stage renal failure and the necropsy examination showed a single dysplastic kidney weighing 1.5 g. At age 2 weeks the serum levels of the d...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Alkalay A,Mogilner BM,Nissim F,Edelstein S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum IgG antibodies to teichoic acid and alpha toxin from Staphylococcus aureus were measured in 62 patients with cystic fibrosis by enzyme linked immunosorbent assays. The patients were followed up for 12-24 months in a prospective study. Raised titres were found exclusively in patients chronically colonised with S ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hollsing AE,Granström M,Strandvik B

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years photopheresis, an extracorporeal form of photochemotherapy using psoralen and ultraviolet A irradiation of leucocytes, has been claimed to be an effective form of immunomodulation. AIM:To evaluate its effect in type 1 diabetes we performed a double blind, controlled study using placebo table...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ludvigsson J,Samuelsson U,Ernerudh J,Johansson C,Stenhammar L,Berlin G

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of calcium, magnesium, and glucose were measured in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of children with febrile convulsions. Calcium and magnesium levels were within the normal range and the blood: CSF ratios were similar to those of normal subjects. Hyperglycaemia was a frequent finding and was reflected ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rutter N,Smales OR

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the relationship between medical and functional severity of disability and levels of self esteem and self concept in 79 young people with spina bifida. Greater feelings of global self worth and of self esteem in physical appearance were associated with greater severity of disability. This was only ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Minchom PE,Ellis NC,Appleton PL,Lawson V,Böll V,Jones P,Elliott CE

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:In cystic fibrosis (CF), problems with sleep, eating/mealtime behaviours, physiotherapy adherence and parental mental health issues are common, yet their natural history and the extent of service use to address them are unknown. OBJECTIVE:Follow up the 2007 cohort to determine: (1) prevalence of child sleep...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sheehan J,Massie J,Hay M,Jaffe A,Glazner J,Armstrong D,Hiscock H

更新日期：2012-07-01 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

abstract：:Whole body protein synthesis and catabolism were measured using the [ring-2H5]phenylalanine and [1-13C]leucine primed constant infusion technique in 32 paediatric patients with cancer at different stages of treatment. Rates of synthesis (S) and catabolism (C) derived from the [ring-2H5]phenylalanine and [1-13C]leucine...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Daley SE,Pearson AD,Craft AW,Kernahan J,Wyllie RA,Price L,Brock C,Hetherington C,Halliday D,Bartlett K

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum concentrations of the phagocytosis-stimulating peptide, tuftsin, were determined by radioimmunoassay in 21 patients with sickle cell disease and in 12 healthy controls. The mean serum tuftsin concentration was significantly lower in patient with haemoglobin SS disease (154.3 +/- 35.1 ng/ml; 308.6 +/- 70.2 nm...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Spirer Z,Weisman Y,Zakuth V,Fridkin M,Bogair N

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare the respiratory health and function at 8 to 9 years of age of a total population based cohort of 300 very low birthweight (VLBW) children with that of two classroom controls (n = 590) matched for age and sex. STUDY DESIGN:Cohort study with controls. SETTING:Schools throughout Scotland. RESULTS:The VL...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McLeod A,Ross P,Mitchell S,Tay D,Hunter L,Hall A,Paton J,Mutch L

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-accidental injury should be suspected and excluded in any infant found to have intracranial and retinal haemorrhage of unknown aetiology. This can be a sensitive issue for both medical staff and parents. We present a case in which the underlying cause of intracranial and retinal haemorrhage was fibromuscular dyspl...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Currie AD,Bentley CR,Bloom PA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When children are considered for participation in research, British and international guidelines suggest that they should provide assent in addition to their parents' consent. However, examination of these guidelines shows there is confusion regarding the concept of assent. Furthermore, the need for assent may cause p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Baines P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotton wool balls have been used to aid the collection of urine from infants. Concentrations of two urinary proteins, albumin and retinol binding protein, decreased by 40 and 80% respectively within 15 minutes of contact with the cotton wool. Cotton wool balls should not be used when investigating proteinuria. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smith GC,Taylor CM

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of negative hydrogen breath tests due to colonic bacterial flora which are unable to produce hydrogen was determined after oral lactulose challenge in 98 healthy Dutch schoolchildren. There was a negative result in 9.2%. The probability of a false normal lactose breath test (1:77) was calculated from the...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Douwes AC,Schaap C,van der Klei-van Moorsel JM

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) related cancers in children are not as common and as well described as in adults. An HIV epidemic has been prevalent in Zambia since 1983-1984. To study the effect of the epidemic on the epidemiology of cancers in children a retrospective study was undertaken at the University Teachi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chintu C,Athale UH,Patil PS

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary ciliary dyskinesia was shown in a 12 year old boy with bronchiectasis who had developed hydrocephalus in the neonatal period. The possible relevance of his ciliary abnormality is discussed. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Greenstone MA,Jones RW,Dewar A,Neville BG,Cole PJ

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00