Immunological responses to respiratory syncytial virus infection in infancy.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the efficacy and safety of polyethylene glycol 3350 plus electrolytes (PEG+E) for the treatment of chronic constipation in children. DESIGN:Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled crossover trial, with two 2-week treatment periods separated by a 2-week placebo washout. SETTING:Six UK paediat...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thomson MA,Jenkins HR,Bisset WM,Heuschkel R,Kalra DS,Green MR,Wilson DC,Geraint M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family histories relating to asthma and wheezy bronchitis were examined in 77 asthmatic, 78 wheezy bronchitic, and 87 control children, aged between 1 and 12 years. The percentage of children with at least one asthmatic relative was significantly greater in the asthmatic and wheezy bronchitic probands than in the ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sibbald B,Horn ME,Gregg I

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are few data on the optimal micronutrient composition of paediatric enteral feeds. The recent European Directive on Foods for Special Medical Purposes (1999/21/EC) did not distinguish between the composition of adult and paediatric feeds. AIMS:To evaluate, in an open, observational study, the long ter...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Johnson TE,Janes SJ,MacDonald A,Elia M,Booth IW

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent famine in Ethiopia has resulted in the dislocation of millions of people. Many of these individuals have moved to refugee camps in Sudan or to feeding centres within Ethiopia. A total of 1325 children up to the age of 15 years were examined by an ophthalmologist in January 1985 at several sites in these two...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pizzarello LD

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital lymphoedema is a lifelong condition that has detrimental physical and psychosocial outcomes for young patients and burdensome treatment responsibilities that may hamper patients' motivation for self-management. There is limited research from the perspective of young people with primary lymphoedema...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hanson CS,Newsom J,Singh-Grewal D,Henschke N,Patterson M,Tong A

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The case fatality rate from meningococcal disease (MD) has remained relatively unchanged in the post antibiotic era, with 20-50% of patients who develop shock still dying. In 1992 a new paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) specialising in MD was opened. Educational information was disseminated to l...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Booy R,Habibi P,Nadel S,de Munter C,Britto J,Morrison A,Levin M,Meningococcal Research Group.

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to determine whether or not the probiotic Lactobacillus GG can colonise the immature bowel of premature infants and if so, does colonisation result in a reduction of the size of the bowel reservoir of nosocomial pathogens such as enterobacteriaceae, enterococci, yeasts or staphylococc...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Millar MR,Bacon C,Smith SL,Walker V,Hall MA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The management of subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) is still controversial, as the benefit to risk ratio of prolonged L-thyroxine therapy is not clear cut. Some authors have shown abnormalities of myocardial function and structure in adults with SH, which could be reversed by L-thyroxine therapy. As SH frequen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Toscano E,Pacileo G,Limongelli G,Verrengia M,Di Mita O,Di Maio S,Salerno M,Del Giudice E,Caniello B,Calabrò R,Andria G

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last half century there has been an exponential increase in international travel including to more exotic and long-haul destinations. The assessment of febrile returning child travellers presents diagnostic challenges and is often performed poorly. A detailed travel and medical history, clinical examination...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Halbert J,Shingadia D,Zuckerman JN

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerns have been raised about the hazards of the insulin tolerance test (ITT), used to measure growth hormone secretion. In Glasgow, we continue to use this test, adhering to a strict protocol. A review of outcome over a 10 year period (1989-99), during which 550 ITTs were performed, was undertaken. No serious adver...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Galloway PJ,McNeill E,Paterson WF,Donaldson MD

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the value of neurodevelopmental examination, fragile X testing, iron studies, and other screening procedures in children with mild to moderate learning difficulties. DESIGN:A cross sectional case-control study. SUBJECTS:A 34% random sample (n = 130) of children with mild to moderate learning diff...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Corrigan N,Stewart M,Scott M,Fee F

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis rarely presents in the neonatal period. Though treatable, it may be fatal despite modern treatment. The diagnosis of congenital tuberculosis should be considered in any neonate with pneumonia that fails to respond to conventional treatment, particularly in a child from an ethnic or socioeconomic environme...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bate TW,Sinclair RE,Robinson MJ

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between current micturition habits and previous urinary tract infection was analysed among 3553 school entrants aged 7 years by means of a questionnaire. A high incidence of urinary infection, confirmed by urine culture, was found (145 (8.4%) in the 1719 girls and 32 (1.7%) in the 1834 boys). There was...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hellström A,Hanson E,Hansson S,Hjälmås K,Jodal U

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validation of measurement of cerebral blood volume (CBV) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) using near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) against jugular venous occlusion plethysmography is described. Repeated measurements in six infants were made using both techniques simultaneously. A close relationship between the two mea...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wickramasinghe YA,Livera LN,Spencer SA,Rolfe P,Thorniley MS

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The value of comparative effectiveness trials in informing clinical and policy decisions depends heavily on the choice of control arm (comparator). Our objective is to identify challenges in comparator reasoning and to determine justification criteria for selecting a control arm in paediatric clinical trials....

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kelly LE,Davies EH,Saint-Raymond A,Tomasi P,Offringa M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an electronic inhaler timer device (Nebulizer Chronolog), compliance with the prescribed frequency of inhaled prophylactic medication in 14 asthmatic children was measured. Underuse occurred in 55% of study days while overuse occurred in only 2%. Such devices provide an important new tool for investigating inhal...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Coutts JA,Gibson NA,Paton JY

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the relationship between medical and functional severity of disability and levels of self esteem and self concept in 79 young people with spina bifida. Greater feelings of global self worth and of self esteem in physical appearance were associated with greater severity of disability. This was only ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Minchom PE,Ellis NC,Appleton PL,Lawson V,Böll V,Jones P,Elliott CE

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty Asian immigrant mothers who would have expected to breast feed their infants had they remained in rural Asia were studied. There was a striking reduction in the incidence and duration of breast feeding on arrival in the United Kingdom, and a fall in the age of weaning. The availability of an alternative to human...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Evans N,Walpole IR,Qureshi MU,Memon MH,Everley Jones HW

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight hospitals reported 781 non-iatrogenic accidents occurring to patients and visitors under 16 years of age during an 18 month period up to October 1989. Accidents more often involved boys and children aged 3 to 5 years old. Falls from a height, slips, and striking accidents were common by day and falls by night. A...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Levene S,Bonfield G

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：: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：:The foot length, occipito-frontal head circumference (OFC), crown-rump, and crown-heel length (CHL) of 123 neonates of gestational ages 26-42 weeks, were measured between 12 hours and 5 days. A gauge, designed and constructed at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, was used to measure foot length. In term babies (37-42 wee...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： James DK,Dryburgh EH,Chiswick ML

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of resource (staffing and services) in all 21 paediatric diabetes services in Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority, UK was surveyed and this information was combined with demographic and clinical data on 2683 children and young people with diabetes (aged 0-23 years) to assess whether level ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Harron KL,McKinney PA,Feltbower RG,Holland P,Campbell FM,Parslow RC

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To describe current practice during stabilisation of children presenting with critical illness to the district general hospital (DGH), preceding retrieval to intensive care. DESIGN:Observational study using prospectively collected transport data. SETTING:A centralised intensive care retrieval service in Eng...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lampariello S,Clement M,Aralihond AP,Lutman D,Montgomery MA,Petros AJ,Ramnarayan P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethical considerations have long been a part of clinical decision making. However, just as doctors and healthcare professionals are being increasingly challenged about the evidence base for their practice, there is increasing focus on the ethical dimension of clinical care. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Watson AR

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Congenital facial palsy (CFP) is clinically defined as facial palsy present at birth. It is associated with considerable disfigurement and causes functional and emotional problems for the affected child. The aetiology of the majority of cases however, remains elusive. AIMS:To investigate the role of a neuro...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jemec B,Grobbelaar AO,Harrison DH

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the frequency of use of complementary treatment and measure its impact on clinical outcomes in a hospitalised general paediatric population. METHODS:A population based random sample of children admitted to the general paediatric service at a metropolitan children's hospital in Auckland, New Zealand fr...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Armishaw J,Grant CC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the impact of two paediatric intensive care unit retrieval teams on the performance of three mortality risk scoring systems: pre-ICU PRISM, PIM, and PRISM II. METHODS:A total of 928 critically ill children retrieved for intensive care from district general hospitals in the south east of England (crude m...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tibby SM,Taylor D,Festa M,Hanna S,Hatherill M,Jones G,Habibi P,Durward A,Murdoch IA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00