An assessment of a new breath actuated inhaler device in acutely wheezy children.

abstract：:We have studied 50 children with one parent with asthma at a mean age of 6.4 years by symptom questionnaire and performed allergy skin testing and measurement of bronchial responsiveness to methacholine in both parent and child in 29-32 cases. Ninety eight per cent of the parents were receiving medication for asthma. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Clifford RD,Pugsley A,Radford M,Holgate ST

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Administration of 1 alpha-OH-D3 to hypocalcaemic neonates (mean +/- SD, serum calcium 1.50 +/- 0.13 mmol/l) significantly increased serum calcium in all 24 infants within 48 hours after starting therapy (mean +/- SD 1.83 +/- 0.23 mmol/1). The time required to correct hypocalcaemia was significantly shorter (2.04 +/- 0...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Barak Y,Milbauer B,Weisman Y,Edelstein S,Spirer Z

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortic arch anomalies in infancy often cause intrathoracic airway obstruction. Airway function was assessed as part of the diagnostic evaluation in six symptomatic infants both by plethysmography and using a chest compression technique to obtain partial flow-volume loops. Two infants had normal intrathoracic airway fu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thomson AH,Beardsmore CS,Firmin R,Leanage R,Simpson H

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although antibiotics are recommended for the primary care management of community-acquired pneumonia, a recent UK study reported that most children admitted to hospital had not received antibiotics. OBJECTIVE:To describe primary care antibiotic use for children subsequently hospitalised with community-acqui...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Grant CC,Harnden A,Mant D,Emery D,Coster G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out on the way in which children's beds were used by the specialty of paediatrics in a district general hospital. Five differing ways were found of interpreting the present Department of Health guidelines on health services information (Körner recommendations). These gave bed occupancy figures v...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： MacFaul R,Long R

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9 year old girl with symptoms of the Sjögren syndrome showed interstitial lymphocytic infiltrate on renal biopsy. Two years later she had clinical and biological evidence of systemic lupus erythematosus, associated with a typical glomerulonephritis. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Palcoux JB,Janin-Mercier A,Campagne D,Fonck Y,Betail G

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study maternal and fetal influences on blood pressure in childhood 405 children aged 4 years who were born and still resident in the Salisbury health district were visited at home for blood pressure and growth measurements. Information on the pregnancy, delivery, and baby was abstracted from the routine obstetric n...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Law CM,Barker DJ,Bull AR,Osmond C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9 year old girl presented with clinical manifestations of Henoch-Schönlein syndrome and macroscopic haematuria. Laboratory investigations showed selective IgA deficiency and renal biopsy showed mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis with diffuse granular deposits of C3 on immunofluorescence. IgA deposits were ab...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Martini A,Ravelli A,Notarangelo LD,Burgio VL,Plebani A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All 212 neonates undergoing cardiac surgery at this hospital during the 5-year period from 1976 to 1980 inclusive were reviewed. Forty required open heart surgery with 23 (57%) deaths. One hundred and seventy-four neonates underwent non-bypass procedures and could be divided into three groups: group 1 (82 patients) ha...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bove EL,Bull C,Stark J,de Leval M,Macartney FJ,Taylor JF

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two neonates with severe culture proven pertussis were successfully treated with salbutamol 0.5 mg three times daily. There was a demonstrable decrease in the total number of coughing spasms, their mean duration and severity. In one baby this was shown by the transcutaneous oxygen tension measurements. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tam AY,Yeung CY

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative biochemical criteria for lung growth and maturation were compared with the histological appearances in hypoplastic lungs from 20 fetuses and newborn infants. Cases associated with oligohydramnios showed a characteristic series of changes with narrow airways, retardation of epithelial and interstitial grow...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wigglesworth JS,Desai R,Guerrini P

更新日期：1981-08-01 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：:A child with idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis for three years required three monthly transfusions. Circulating avian, gliadin, and reticulin antibodies suggested the diagnosis of gluten enteropathy, and jejunal biopsy showed subtotal villous atrophy. During 15 months on a gluten free diet his growth and behaviour i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reading R,Watson JG,Platt JW,Bird AG

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：:Transcutaneous Doppler ultrasound measurements were made of the superior mesenteric artery of 22 preterm infants (mean birth weight 600-2580 g) to investigate the response of intestinal blood flow to feeding. Analysis of the data in relation to milk intake showed a significant change in peak velocity and mean velocity...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Leidig E

更新日期：1989-04-01 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 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 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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the mental health of children and adolescents admitted to neonatal intensive/special care units (NICUs) in infancy. METHODS:This cross-sectional study used a provincially representative cohort from the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study. Parents provided data on psychiatric disorders using the MI...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chiorean A,Savoy C,Beattie K,El Helou S,Silmi M,Van Lieshout RJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of 27 amino acids in the vitreous humour was analysed in 120 cot deaths. Baseline data for age and postmortem interval are presented and the concentrations compared with the normal reference range for plasma. The results do not indicate that a specific aminoacidopathy is a factor in cot deaths. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Patrick WJ,Logan RW

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of transient hypogammaglobulinaemia of infancy (THI) detected in a major paediatric centre over a 10 year period was examined. A total of 2468 subjects less than 2 years of age had an IgG measurement taken between July 1979 and March 1990. Subjects with known immunodeficiencies were excluded. Fifteen pat...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Walker AM,Kemp AS,Hill DJ,Shelton MJ

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New charts for height, weight, height velocity, and weight velocity are presented for clinical (as opposed to population survey) use. They are based on longitudinal-type growth curves, using the same data as in the British 1965 growth standards. In the velocity standards centiles are given for children who are early- ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tanner JM,Whitehouse RH

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how many children are admitted to paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with life-limiting conditions (LLCs) and their outcomes. DESIGN:National cohort, data-linkage study. SETTING:PICUs in England. PATIENTS:Children admitted to a UK PICU (1 January 2004 and 31 March 2015) were identified in t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fraser LK,Parslow R

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung function tests were carried out in the first 6 hours of life on 26 babies born by vaginal delivery and 10 born by caesarean section. The babies born by caesarean section had a mean thoracic gas volume of only 19.7 ml/kg body weight compared with 32.7 ml/kg for the babies born vaginally. We conclude that this is o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Milner AD,Saunders RA,Hopkin IE

更新日期：1978-07-01 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：AIM:To investigate the emotional reactions of registrars following the death of a child. METHODS:A multicentre study to determine the sources of support for registrars and the use of debriefing following a child's death. A questionnaire was sent or given to registrars within the South West Region. RESULTS:There was a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Baverstock A,Finlay F

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotising enterocolitis occurred in 3 infants after angiography at cardiac catheterisation. It is suggested that hypertonic contrast medium might have been responsible and that this complication could be avoided by the use of nonionic contrast media. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cooke RW,Meradji M,de Villeneuve VH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The epidemiology of congenital infections is ever changing, with a recent resurgence in syphilis infection rates seen in the UK. Identification of congenital infection is often delayed; early recognition and management of congenital infections is important. Testing modalities and investigations are often lim...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Penner J,Hernstadt H,Burns JE,Randell P,Lyall H

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of brain abnormalities determined by magnetic resonance in 30 consecutive children presenting with intractable complex partial seizures is reported. Images were optimised to visualise the hippocampus and cortical grey matter. Abnormalities of the hippocampus or temporal lobe were seen in all 19 children ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cross JH,Jackson GD,Neville BG,Connelly A,Kirkham FJ,Boyd SG,Pitt MC,Gadian DG

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00