Symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection in two consecutive sisters.

abstract：:Two male patients with congenital cleft lip and palate first seen at ages 10.2 and 21.5 years presented with typical signs of hypothalamic-interior pituitary hormone deficiencies. They were found to lack GH, LH, and FSH and to be partially deficient in TSH and ACTH. Several congenital defects may explain this rare syn...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Roitman A,Laron Z

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The primary aim was to evaluate the efficacy of financial incentives for reducing paediatric tobacco smoke exposures (TSEs) through motivating cigarette usage reduction among low-income maternal caregivers and members of their social network. DESIGN:Randomised control pilot trial over a 6-month study follow...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jassal MS,Lewis-Land C,Thompson RE,Butz A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There may be insufficient awareness of dopa responsive dystonia (DRD), which has a characteristic diurnal variation of symptoms. Two children are reported in whom the diagnosis of DRD was missed. The first was thought to have hysteria and the second hereditary spastic paraparesis. A full history is vital for the diagn...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Patel K,Roskrow T,Davis JS,Heckmatt JZ

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:Samples from the pharynx, stomach, duodenum or jejunum, and faeces were collected on 7 days between 1st and 28th day from neonates weighing less than 1.5 kg at birth who were fed by transpyloric tube. These were cultured on selective and non-selective media, and the results were expressed in a semi-quantitative manner...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dellagrammaticas HD,Duerden BI,Milner RD

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Better understanding of the proportion of children who ever receive special educational needs (SEN) provision or social care services during school years is highly relevant for healthcare as reductions in one or more of these services could impact on healthcare. Using the National Pupil Database linked to the all-of-E...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jay MA,Gilbert R

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three babies said to have had 'meconium stained liquor' were subsequently found never to have passed meconium. The green discoloured liquor was the result of bilious vomiting in utero secondary to intestinal obstruction. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Griffiths DM,Burge DM

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Susceptibility to infections is a well known feature of Down's syndrome. The possible relation between this predisposition and the serum concentrations of the IgG subclasses was studied in 38 children with Down's syndrome aged 1-12 years. An age matched group of 50 healthy children served as controls. The serum concen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Annerén G,Magnusson CG,Lilja G,Nordvall SL

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocturnal growth hormone secretion over a 12 hour period was assessed at 20 minute intervals in 25 prepubertal subjects with Turner's syndrome and 11 normal prepubertal girls of short stature to try and elucidate the relationship between body weight and endogenous secretion of growth hormone in Turner's syndrome. Ther...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lu PW,Cowell CT,Jimenez M,Simpson JM,Silink M

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two investigations of paediatric manpower in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland were carried out, each using a different method. The first survey located registrars and senior registrars and checked on their occupational status 3 years later in order to see which ones had been promoted. Loss factors--such as emigrat...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Liberman MM,Bellman MH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the presence of in vitro penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae increases the risk of clinical failure in children hospitalised with severe pneumonia and treated with penicillin/ampicillin. DESIGN:Multicentre, prospective, observational study. SETTING:12 tertiary-care centres in ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cardoso MR,Nascimento-Carvalho CM,Ferrero F,Berezin EN,Ruvinsky R,Camargos PA,Sant'anna CC,Brandileone MC,de Fátima P March M,Feris-Iglesias J,Maggi RS,Benguigui Y,CARIBE Group.

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Foot pathology is a major source of morbidity in adults with diabetes. The aim of this study was to determine if children with insulin dependent diabetes have an increased incidence of foot pathology compared with non-diabetic children. DESIGN:Questionnaire, clinical examination, and biomechanical assessmen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Barnett SJ,Shield JP,Potter MJ,Baum JD

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty seven healthy infants (18 born at full term and 19 preterm) were studied serially with cross sectional and Doppler echocardiography to compare their postnatal circulatory adaptation. Pulmonary artery pressure was assessed by its inverse relationship with the ratio of pulmonary artery time to peak velocity and r...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Evans NJ,Archer LN

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic lipase catalyses the hydrolysis of emulsified triglycerides to form a transparent solution of monoglycerides and fatty acids. Levels of serum pancreatic lipase were measured in neonates known to have cystic fibrosis and compared with levels in control infants. During the first weeks of life infants with cys...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Adriaenssens K,Van Riel L

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey was carried out in 10 centres in England and Wales to determine the costs of hearing screening in the first year of life. The screens that were studied were targeted neonatal, universal neonatal, and the health visitor distraction test (HVDT) or alternative surveillance. Valid data were available from five ce...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Stevens JC,Hall DM,Davis A,Davies CM,Dixon S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neonatal autosomal-recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is associated with pulmonary hypoplasia and severe respiratory distress. There is no published information on long-term lung function in ARPKD survivors. METHODS:Pulmonary function tests, including spirometry and diffusion capacity, were perform...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jahnukainen T,Kirjavainen T,Luoto T,Ylinen E,Linkosalo L,Arikoski P,Pakarinen M,Jalanko H

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coeliac disease occurred at the same age in MZ twins. The diagnosis was confirmed by histology of the small intestine, rapid response to a gluten-free diet, and relapse after reintroduction of gluten. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Penna FJ,Mota JA,Roquete ML,de Carvalho AS,de Oliveira Lemos AT,Barbosa AJ,Leao E,Ferreira RA,de Paula Castro L

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured total work of breathing before and after the inhalation of water, salbutamol, and ipratropium bromide, given as nebulised solutions, in 39 studies on 25 infants with acute, severe bronchiolitis. Twenty minutes after nebulised water, mean work of breathing per minute was increased by 4% and work per li...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Stokes GM,Milner AD,Hodges IG,Henry RL,Elphick MC

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 40 hospitalized infants and children with cytomegalovirus infection, 14 (35%) had interstitial pneumonitis, 4 (10%) had wheezing or tachypnoea but without x-ray evidence of classical interstitial pneumonia, the remaining 22 (55%) were free of pulmonary involvement. Most patients had tachypnoea and nonproductive ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smith SD,Cho CT,Brahmacupta N,Lenahan MF

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has indicated that children who have received treatment for leukaemia which includes cranial irradiation exhibit deficits in their ability to focus attention. It has been suggested that the use of cranial irradiation may have a role to play in long term sequelae. AIMS:To investigate neurop...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rodgers J,Marckus R,Kearns P,Windebank K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The provision of positive end expiratory pressure, via a unique portable system, in the long term management of a child with thoracic dystrophy is reported. The system uses low gas flow enabling a reduction in equipment and simplification of the circuit as compared with a standard continuous positive airways pressure ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Edees S,Moulden A,Winter RJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-seven cases of prune belly syndrome in children born between 1948 and 1977 are described. They have been classified into three groups according to the state of the urinary tract in the neonatal period. The results achieved in these cases form the basis of our present management. In group I, the most severely aff...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Woodhouse CR,Ransley PG,Innes-Williams D

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simplified guidelines for the emergency care of children have been developed to improve the triage and rapid initiation of appropriate emergency treatments for children presenting to hospitals in developing countries. The guidelines are part of the effort to improve referral level paediatric care within the World Heal...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gove S,Tamburlini G,Molyneux E,Whitesell P,Campbell H

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A subnormal cortisol response (30 min level (C30min)<550 nmol/L) to synthetic adrenocorticotrophic hormone/Synacthen test (SDST) in all infants does not necessarily indicate underlying or persistent hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis pathology. METHODS:We retrospectively evaluated the diagnoses and outcome...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tan TSE,Manfredonia C,Kumar R,Jones J,O'Shea E,Padidela R,Skae M,Ehtisham S,Ivison F,Tetlow L,Clayton PE,Banerjee I,Patel L

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UK guidelines for HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) in adults have recently been updated. Indications for PEP have been modified and there has been a change in the recommended antiretroviral therapy for adults to a combination of raltegravir with tenofovir and emtricitabine (Truvada). Raltegravir and tenofovir are n...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bamford A,Tudor-Williams G,Foster C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to date reference ranges were established for fasting renal excretion of calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium on 101 healthy children aged 2-15 years. A normal range for intact parathyroid hormone was also measured. The indices of calcium and magnesium excretion showed no correlation with age or sex so that a common ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shaw NJ,Wheeldon J,Brocklebank JT

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the risk of disability from unintentional injury in teenagers and young adults. METHODS:Analyses of data from the National Child Development Study, a follow up study of 98% of all children born in England, Scotland, and Wales in one week in March, 1958. In 1981, 12,537 study participants, 76% of t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Barker M,Power C,Roberts I

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotising pneumonia in young, previously healthy patients due to Panton-Valentine leucocidin (PVL) producing Staphylococcus aureus has been increasingly recognised. PVL pneumonia is often associated with influenza co-infection and high mortality. This case report describes the successful management of the first docu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Obando I,Valderrabanos ES,Millan JA,Neth OW

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the accuracy of a low cost, spring calibrated, hand held scale in classifying newborns into three weight categories (> or =2500 g, 2000-2499 g, <2000 g). METHODS:The test device was compared to a gold standard digital baby scale with precision to 2 g. In Sarlahi district, Nepal, 1890 newborns were el...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mullany LC,Darmstadt GL,Coffey P,Khatry SK,LeClerq SC,Tielsch JM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty four of 74 paediatricians in the West Midlands (43 general medical, 11 subspecialist) replied to a postal questionnaire about their outpatient practice: 37 timed each consultation in one clinic. On average, subspecialty consultations lasted 37 minutes for new patients and 29 minutes for review. In general clinic...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Partridge JW

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00