Screening a state middle school for asthma using the free running asthma screening test.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vanessa is a 34-year-old lawyer married to a police officer. Her first baby was born after a perfect pregnancy and labour until fetal distress necessitated an easy Ventouse extraction late in the second stage. Baby F had normal Apgar scores and weighed 2920 g. This paper records a conversation between Vaness...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Harris V,Hall D

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To document the impact that rapid increases in HIV infection in hospitalised children at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital has had on in-hospital mortality. METHODS:Hospital discharge summaries from January 1992 to the end of 1996 were reviewed. RESULTS:There were 20 733 admissions in the five year period; 7985 (39...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Zwi K,Pettifor J,Soderlund N,Meyers T

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trial was conducted using sequential analysis by pairs to compare the efficacy of corticosteroids and salicylates in the treatment of acute rheumatic carditis. The results show a significantly favourable effect of steroid treatment both in clinical response and in reduction of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate. In ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Human DG,Hill ID,Fraser CB

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

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：:The recent epidemic of childhood obesity(1) has raised concern because of the possible clinical and public health consequences.(2,)(3) However, there remains a widespread perception among health professionals that childhood obesity is a largely cosmetic problem, with minor clinical effects. No systematic review has ye...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reilly JJ,Methven E,McDowell ZC,Hacking B,Alexander D,Stewart L,Kelnar CJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings were born with congenital heart block, and one suffered from severe hydrops fetalis, although maintaining a higher heart rate than the other. The association of hydrops fetalis with disorders of cardiac rhythm is unlikely to be simply a manifestation of congestive cardiac failure in the fetus. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cooke RW,Mettau JW,Van Cappelle AW,de Villeneuve VH

更新日期：1980-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To study the clinical characteristics and predictors of mortality from snake bite envenomation in children. DESIGN:Prospective observational study with a one-group cohort design. SETTING:Paediatric intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital in South India. SUBJECTS:The study cohort consisted of 145 ch...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jayakrishnan MP,Geeta MG,Krishnakumar P,Rajesh TV,George B

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：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：:Diabetic control in 88 children attending three general paediatric clinics was compared prospectively over one year with that of 89 children attending a specialist paediatric diabetic clinic. Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1) concentration and days admitted were significantly lower in the group attending the specialist clin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bloomfield S,Farquhar JW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A tailor-made serogroup B outer membrane vesicle vaccine was evaluated in the context of a serogroup B meningococcal epidemic dominated by Neisseria meningitidis strain B:4:P1.7b,4. OBJECTIVE:To determine the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity in infants aged 6-8 months of a meningococcal B vaccine d...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jackson C,Lennon DR,Sotutu VT,Yan J,Stewart JM,Reid S,Crengle S,Oster P,Ypma E,Aaberge I,Mulholland K,Martin DR

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty nine children of short stature exercised for 10 minutes on a non-motorised treadmill. In 49 a growth hormone concentration of greater than 15 mU/l was reached, effectively excluding growth hormone deficiency. In 10 children the growth hormone concentration failed to reach 15 mU/l; growth hormone deficiency was c...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de San Lazaro C,Parkin JM,Turner SJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two newborn infants, male (A) and female (B), with lethal hyperammonaemia are described in the same family. In both, symptoms started on the second day of life. Lethargy and hypotonia were the most prominent initial findings and were followed by convulsions and coma. In both, blood ammonia levels rose to 570 mumol/u (...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mantagos S,Tsagaraki S,Burgess EA,Oberholzer V,Palmer T,Sacks J,Baibas S,Valaes T

更新日期：1978-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:The number of trips to the tropics taken by children with chronic health disorders (CHDs) is increasing. METHODS:All of the children with CHDs who attended two international vaccination centres in France before travelling to the tropics were included in a prospective, exposed/unexposed study. Each child was...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ducrocq C,Sommet J,Levy D,Trieu TV,Quercia F,Morin L,Belletre X,Koehl B,Sorge F,Alberti C,de Pontual L,Faye A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven children with precocious puberty were treated with cyproterone acetate and their adrenal function studied. In each child the drug caused significant adrenal hypofunction which was secondary to adrenocorticotrophic hormone suppression. None of these children had clinical evidence of adrenal hypofunction and it is...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Savage DC,Swift PG

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight infants with severe hyperosmolar dehydration and hypernatraemia were treated, using three regimens of intravenous fluids: A. 1/2 normal saline, given fast; B.1/2 normal saline given slowly; C. 1/5 normal saline. 28 of the infants were studied in a treatment trial, and it is concluded tha 0-18% saline in 4...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Banister A,Matin-Siddiqi SA,Hatcher GW

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chest physiotherapy still remains one of the most important aspects in the treatment of chest complications of cystic fibrosis. A mechanical device that allows the patient with cystic fibrosis to do his own chest physiotherapy will be of great benefit if it is as effective as manual percussion. 14 patients with cystic...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Maxwell M,Redmond A

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen children with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia diagnosed over a period of 16 years at a children's hospital are reviewed. All had an underlying disease, either congenital immunodeficiency or a malignancy. 15 patients were treated, 10 with pentamidine isethionate alone, 2 with both pentamidine and co-trimoxazole...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lipson A,Marshall WC,Hayward AR

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a child who presented with a progressive neurological disorder associated with hypertension and paroxysms of irritability and sweating in whom an abnormality of catecholamine metabolism or excretion was demonstrated. An elder sister died at the age of 2 1/2 years with similar clinical symptoms but without bl...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Young I,Hosking GP

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative morphological assessment was carried out of the cellularity and staining properties of the cells of the layers of the human cerebellar cortex, both in the normal child and in 41 children suffering from a series of disorders including mental retardation. A computerized image analyser and highly standardi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gadson DR,Emery JL

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of desamino-D-arginine vasopressin (DDAVP) was investigated in 32 enuretic children in a double-blind clinical study. The 15 children treated with DDAVP showed a significant reduction in the incidence of bed wetting--from 18.7 +/- 6.5 to 6.5 +/- 9.2 wet nights per 30 days. In 6 children bed wetting stoppe...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Aladjem M,Wohl R,Boichis H,Orda S,Lotan D,Freedman S

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To examine the disease burden and epidemiology of community acquired rotavirus gastroenteritis in Austrian children treated in a paediatric practice. METHODS:A prospective, population based, multicentre study in four paediatric practices and two children's hospitals (Innsbruck and Leoben). Children

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Frühwirth M,Karmaus W,Moll-Schüler I,Brösl S,Mutz I

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its first description optic nerve hypoplasia has been identified with increasing frequency, and a range of associated problems have been described. The major neurological and endocrine associations are well established, but those factors that predispose to the development of optic nerve hypoplasia remain unclear...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Roberts-Harry J,Green SH,Willshaw HE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:You can't teach old dogs new tricks. Teaching middle-aged dogs new tricks is hard enough. They tend to stick to particular styles of attacking the postman that over the years have proved pretty reliable, often choosing to ignore new findings, or simply failing to keep up with progress in current discussions on, say, t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cameron D

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-three low birthweight babies were independently assessed for gestational age using the scoring system of Dubowitz et al. (1970) and 5 neurological reflexes described by Robinson (1966). The results obtained by the 5 reflexes were compared with those obtained by the scoring system and were found to be accurate ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Serfontein GL,Jaroszewicz AM

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with biotinidase deficiency were studied. Clinical findings at presentation varied with dermatological signs (dermatitis and alopecia), neurological abnormalities (fits, hypotonia, and ataxia), and recurrent infections being the most common features, although none of these occurred in every case. Biochemi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wastell HJ,Bartlett K,Dale G,Shein A

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the epidemiology of pyridoxine dependent seizures and other forms of pyridoxine responsive seizures. DESIGN:Monthly notifications to the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit over two years. Questionnaire follow up. SETTING:UK and the Republic of Ireland. PATIENTS:Children aged 15 years or younger ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Baxter P

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

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