HCG stimulation test in children with abnormal sexual development.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To ascertain the relationship between prelacteal feeding, early formula feeding and adverse health outcomes, especially hospitalisation during the first year of life. DESIGN:Multicentre prospective cohort study. SETTING:Six hospitals across three cities in Vietnam. PATIENTS:A total of 2030 pregnant women w...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nguyen P,Binns CW,Ha AVV,Chu TK,Nguyen LC,Duong DV,Do DV,Lee AH

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the incidence of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) among children aged up to 16 years residing in the city of Karachi, Pakistan, during the five years from 1989 to 1993. DESIGN:Retrospective study of incidence using hospital and clinic records. SETTING:The city of Karachi, Pakistan. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Staines A,Hanif S,Ahmed S,McKinney PA,Shera S,Bodansky HJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life was sorted. With membership of the college under my belt, and my paediatric training completed, I needed a new challenge. I decided to launch into the deep waters of qualitative research. Stepping out with some trepidation into semistructured interviews and grounded theory, I soon found that the water was neither...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sidebotham P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Data suggest a potential role for vitamin D in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We wanted to assess the effect of vitamin D3 supplementation compared with placebo in children with ASD. DESIGN:This was a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. SETTING:A paediatric outpatient centre at high latitu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kerley CP,Power C,Gallagher L,Coghlan D

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the Glasgow Register of Congenital Malformations were used to investigate the epidemiology of congenital facial clefts over the period 1974-85. Facial clefts were registered in 247 infants representing a prevalence of 1.56 per 1000 total births. Cleft palate was more common than cleft lip, with cleft lip and...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Womersley J,Stone DH

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In preterm babies both haemoglobin and total neutrophil count values from capillary sites are significantly and variably higher than those from simultaneous arterial samples. Comparing simultaneous venous and arterial samples, the mean haemoglobin was slightly higher but the total neutrophil counts were similar. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thurlbeck SM,McIntosh N

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：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：:The lactulose/L-rhamnose urinary excretion ratio during continued infusion of milks containing both sugars was used as an index of the permeability of the neonatal bowel to large and small molecules. Healthy infants of gestational age 31-36 weeks proved to have a period of enhanced permeability to lactulose during the...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Beach RC,Menzies IS,Clayden GS,Scopes JW

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast fed infants may be at greater risk of mother to infant hepatitis B virus infection compared with formula fed infants. We studied 85 infants born to 84 hepatitis B surface antigen positive mothers (only two of whom were hepatitis B e positive), and who had received immunisation against hepatitis B virus. Our res...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Martino M,Appendino C,Resti M,Rossi ME,Muccioli AT,Vierucci A

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eating habits and attitudes concerning body shape and weight among 26 mothers of children with non-organic failure to thrive (the index group) were studied using the eating disorder examination. They were compared with equivalent data on 26 individually matched women who participated in a large community survey. T...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McCann JB,Stein A,Fairburn CG,Dunger DB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of gastric emptying in the preterm infant has been hampered by the absence of a suitable, valid technique. We have evaluated gastric antral clearance using serial ultrasonic measurement of the antral cross sectional area (ACSA). The study was easy to perform, providing successful results in 15 of 17 low birt...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Newell SJ,Chapman S,Booth IW

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course of 6 children with primary intestinal lymphangiectuasia who have been treated with low fat medium chain triglyceride-supplemented diets for between 3 and 8 years (4 for longer than 5 years) is described. Though laboratory findings indicate continuing chyle leak, evidence for long-term benefit from ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tift WL,Lloyd JK

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To describe the clinical features, diagnosis and management of children with tuberculosis in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. METHODS:Cases of culture-confirmed and clinically diagnosed tuberculosis were reported to the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit from December 2003 to January 2005. RESULTS:3...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Teo SS,Riordan A,Alfaham M,Clark J,Evans MR,Sharland M,Novelli V,Watson JM,Sonnenberg P,Hayward A,Moore-Gillon J,Shingadia D,British Paediatric Surveillance Unit Childhood Tuberculosis Study Group.

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of 105 children with urinary tract infection showed an increasing prevalence of grades II-III vesicoureteric reflux with diminishing age. During infancy reflux was almost always severe, and affected boys as often as girls. Radiologically scarred kidneys were drained by refluxing ureters in 98% of cases. The p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shah KJ,Robins DG,White RH

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We assessed whether maternal mental health problems increased rates for child injury during the preschool years and mid-childhood, and the extent to which associations could be accounted for by a range of potential explanatory factors. DESIGN:We analysed the UK Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally represent...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hope S,Deighton J,Micali N,Law C

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:A child showing signs of Henoch-Schönlein purpura developed a right tibiofibular vascular thrombosis. Antiphospholipid antibody tests were positive for both lupus anticoagulant and anticardiolipin antibodies. This suggests that an antiphospholipid syndrome should be considered in cases of Henoch-Schönlein purpura and ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Monastiri K,Selmi H,Tabarki B,Yacoub M,Mahjoub T,Essoussi AS

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with chronic cytomegalovirus hepatitis and a child with atypical Alagille's syndrome had vitamin D deficiency rickets due to malabsorption. Both received ultraviolet irradiation. This treatment corrected biochemical abnormalities and healed the rickets. In the infant use of a sunlamp at home maintained norma...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kooh SW,Roberts EA,Fraser D,Curtis J,Jones G,Weber JL,Reilly BJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:In paediatrics drugs are prescribed as mg/kg doses to facilitate accurate dosing. Anecdotally, some drugs are prescribed in such a way that the volume to be given is difficult to measure which may lead to inaccuracies and potential for error. Locally, errors have been reported where there has been a misunderstandin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Balsara J,Fletcher P

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test whether early treatment could postpone the chronic colonisation of the respiratory tract with mucoid strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients with cystic fibrosis, we performed a pilot study in 28 patients aged 2 to 18 years. A two week course of azlocillin (150 mg/kg/day) and tobramycin (10 to 15 mg/kg/d...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Steinkamp G,Tümmler B,Malottke R,von der Hardt H

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：:Premature newborn rabbits, delivered on day 27 of gestation, were treated with tracheal deposition of dry artificial surfactant containing dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine and unsaturated phosphatidylglycerol (7:3), or crude natural surfactant prepared by centrifugation of lung wash from adult rabbits. Before receiving...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morley C,Robertson B,Lachmann B,Nilsson R,Bangham A,Grossmann G,Miller N

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the 265 children aged between 6 and 18 months admitted to hospital in a 26-month period each with his first febrile convulsion, there were 64 who satisfied our criteria for a simple febrile convulsion. Of these, 43 (random) were entered into a double-blind trial of continuous sodium valproate versus phenobarbitone,...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ngwane E,Bower B

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pethidine or an epidural injection of bupivacaine are common forms of obstetric analgesia in Britain. Bupivacaine has been thought to have little effect on the fetus, but neurobehavioural studies have cast doubt on this. We therefore investigated the elimination of these drugs by babies in similar population groups. B...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cooper LV,Stephen GW,Aggett PJ

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the utility of a novel Paediatric Consultation Assessment Tool (PCAT). DESIGN:Developed to measure clinicians' communication behaviour with children and their parents/guardian, PCAT was designed according to consensus guidelines and refined at a number of stages. Volunteer clinicians provided vi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Howells RJ,Davies HA,Silverman JD,Archer JC,Mellon AF

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remarkable advances have been made over the past decade in defining the burden of newborn mortality and morbidity and stillbirths, and in identifying interventions to address the major risk factors and causes of deaths. However, progress in saving newborn lives and preventing stillbirths in countries lags behind that ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Darmstadt GL,Shiffman J,Lawn JE

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine which antenatal and early-life factors were associated with infant postnatal growth in a resource-poor setting in Vietnam. STUDY DESIGN:Prospective longitudinal study following infants (n=1046) born to women who had previously participated in a cluster randomised trial of micronutrient supplemen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hanieh S,Ha TT,De Livera AM,Simpson JA,Thuy TT,Khuong NC,Thoang DD,Tran TD,Tuan T,Fisher J,Biggs BA

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To develop and validate a new allergy-specific patient-reported experience measure (PREM) for children and their parents, and to collect feedback in an integrated care setting. DESIGN:Two allergy-specific PREMs were produced using focus groups, cognitive testing, two prospective validation studies (collabor...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gore C,Griffin R,Rothenberg T,Tallett A,Hopwood B,Sizmur S,O'Keeffe C,Warner JO

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00