Measurement of social inequalities in health and use of health services among children in Northumberland.

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：:Treatment of posthaemorrhagic ventricular dilatation by early repeated cerebrospinal fluid taps was compared with conservative management in a randomised controlled trial of 157 infants in 15 centres. Thirty infants died and six moved abroad before follow up. During the first 14 days after randomisation, the early tre...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors：

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A girl was born to a mother who had undergone treatment for epilepsy with carbamazepine during pregnancy. The infant had dysmorphic features and was physically and mentally retarded. We consider that the malformations were the result of the maternal treatment with carbamazepine. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Vestermark V,Vestermark S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterise fetal brain growth in children with specific language impairment (SLI). DESIGN:A nested case-control study. SETTING:Perth, Western Australia. PARTICIPANTS:Thirty children meeting criteria for SLI at age 10 years were individually matched with a typically developing comparison child on sex, ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Whitehouse AJ,Zubrick SR,Blair E,Newnham JP,Hickey M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate behavioural outcome and quality of life in children aged 8-14 years after neonatal arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries. METHODS:Sixty children operated as neonates with combined deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and low flow cardiopulmonary bypass were evaluated at age ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hövels-Gürich HH,Konrad K,Wiesner M,Minkenberg R,Herpertz-Dahlmann B,Messmer BJ,Von Bernuth G

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Despite decreasing mortality, functional impairments in children with transposition of the great arteries (TGA) are still a concern. This study analyses health-related physical fitness (HRPF), arterial stiffness and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children with anatomically repaired TGA regarding co...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Häcker AL,Reiner B,Oberhoffer R,Hager A,Ewert P,Müller J

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：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：:The clinical response to sodium cromoglycate treatment was compared with its concentration in serum. Twenty five children with asthma entered a 10 week trial of two baseline weeks followed by eight weeks of treatment by the inhalation of 20 mg of sodium cromoglycate spincaps four times a day. Individual clinical respo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Yahav Y,Dany S,Katznelson D,Farfel Z

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A presenting sample of 127 consecutive referrals to a community based enuresis clinic were evaluated after treatment with baseline behavioural recording and the enuresis alarm. Almost one in five became dry after baseline recording only while 81 of 96 (84%) enuretics who used the alarm achieved the initial dryness cri...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Devlin JB,O'Cathain C

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the diagnostic accuracy of chest radiography in the detection of chest lymphadenopathy in children with clinically suspected pulmonary tuberculosis. METHODS: DESIGN:Prospective cross sectional study. SETTING:A short stay ward in a children's hospital in South Africa. PATIENTS:Consecutive child...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Swingler GH,du Toit G,Andronikou S,van der Merwe L,Zar HJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred consecutive cases of boys with foreskin problems referred to local paediatric surgeons in the Edinburgh area were studied. Fifty five underwent circumcision and the remainder were managed more conservatively with or without the use of local or general anaesthetic. Although sometimes avoiding general anaest...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lafferty PM,MacGregor FB,Scobie WG

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allergic response is distinct from other immune reactions in its reliance on IgE, its high affinity receptor, Fc epsilon RI, and the primary effector cell--the tissue mast cell. Positive skin tests or raised concentrations of specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) in the serum define IgE sensitisation or "atopy". IgE par...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Milgrom H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel form of severe, X linked mental retardation associated with alpha thalassaemia (ATR-X syndrome) has recently been described. Two affected cousins are described, one of whom has an unusually mild haematological phenotype. HbH inclusions, which are the hallmark of this disease, were only detected in the peripher...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Logie LJ,Gibbons RJ,Higgs DR,Brown JK,Porteous ME

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases are reported in which thrombi were found in the aorta at postmortem. In each case the thrombus had originated within the ductus arteriosus. We believe that in recent years the attention paid to the presence of indwelling cannulae as a cause of embolic phenomena in the newborn period has led to a reduction ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Knowlson GT,Marsden HB

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the risk factors for breakthrough varicella in a follow up study of a cohort of 181 healthy children immunised when aged 9-24 months with a reformulated Oka strain varicella vaccine (SmithKline Beecham Biologicals/Oka). DESIGN:The children were randomised in a double blind manner into one of four group...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lim YJ,Chew FT,Tan AY,Lee BW

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited access to exercise testing facilities means that the diagnosis of exercise induced asthma (EIA) is mainly based on self-reported respiratory symptoms. This is open to error since the correlation between exercise related symptoms and subsequent exercise testing has been shown to be poor. AIM:To study...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Seear M,Wensley D,West N

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:Four child-protection scenarios were sent to 200 named/designated and non-named/non-designated doctors. The respondents judged each scenario as abuse or accident and indicated their degree of certainty. There was a 71% response rate. There were no significant differences in judgement or degrees of certainty of judgeme...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Power S

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop and test patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) for children and young people in a specialist paediatric hospital setting. DESIGN:Six PREMs were developed and tested by children and young people for children and young people aged 8-11, 12-13 and 14-16 years in inpatient and outpatient settin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wray J,Hobden S,Knibbs S,Oldham G

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：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：: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：AIM:To investigate the epidemiology, clinical profile and risk factors of pseudotumor cerebri syndrome (PTCS) in children aged 1-16 years. METHODS:A national prospective population-based cohort study over 25 months. Newly diagnosed PTCS cases notified via British Paediatric Surveillance Unit were ascertained using cla...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Matthews YY,Dean F,Lim MJ,Mclachlan K,Rigby AS,Solanki GA,White CP,Whitehouse WP,Kennedy CR

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three neonates with rectal perforations probably caused by the use of the rectal thermometer, are reported. The dangers of this condition and the difficulty of diagnosis even at laporatomy are emphasised. It is suggested that since the axillary temperature in the neonate is an adequate reflection of the core temperatu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Frank JD,Brown S

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the diagnostic features of cluster headache-like disorder and describes its presentation in childhood. Case note summaries of patients with this condition are presented in the context of a brief summary of the literature. Four patients (two girls; aged 12 to 15 years) with cluster headache-like diso...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McNabb S,Whitehouse W

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of immunoglobulins (Ig) G.A.M. and E were determined in paired umbilical cord and maternal sera in 50 twin pregnancies. Mean IgG levels were higher in cord than maternal sera and in most cases the cord IgG level related more closely to that of the other twin than to either maternal level or birthwei...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bryan EM,Slavin B,Nicholson E

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of 256 families, among whom were twins, midparent-adult son correlations for height, weight, and combined skinfold measurements were 0.67, 0.47, and 0.23 respectively. The corresponding midparent-adult daughter correlations were 0.63, 0.42, and 0.24. Midparent-growing offspring correlations were highest for...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hawk LJ,Brook CG

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altogether 38 postpubertal children with coeliac disease were rebiopsied. Mucosal abnormality in nine (24%) of them indicated poor adherence to the diet. Gluten challenge with a diet containing a normal amount of gluten was performed in those 29 patients with a normal mucosa. During challenge, rebiopsy was done when r...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mäki M,Lähdeaho ML,Hällström O,Viander M,Visakorpi JK

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An usually high rate of both tuberculosis infection and active disease is reported in 11 of 38 nursery children in contact with a case of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis, emphasising the susceptibility of young children to this disease. This report also underlines some important principles in case finding and di...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Milburn HJ,Gibilaro J,Atkinson H,Heathcock R

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00