abstract：:A pure growth of Branhamella catarrhalis was obtained from a purulent bronchial exudate in a 28-month-old Rwandese girl, hospitalized for acute inspiratory dyspnoea with fever. The outcome was favourable under treatment with ampicillin, although the isolate was shown to produce a beta-lactamase in vitro. ...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Bogaerts J,Lepage P,Vande Weghe JP,Vandepitte J

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The daily excretion of C-peptide in the urine was measured in 105 healthy infants and children from birth to 14 years of age. For technical reasons no studies were performed from 1-3 years of age. The excretion of C-peptide showed a close positive correlation with age and weight. The relationship with weight was alrea...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Gács G,Jakabfi P,Zubovich L

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bulging fontanelle due to benign increased intracranial pressure is not generally recognized as a manifestation of nutritional rickets but should be considered in the appropriate clinical setting. Two children who we saw presented with bulging anterior fontanelles were found to have pseudotumor cerebri in associatio...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： DeJong AR,Callahan CA,Weiss J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary recovery and serum determination of Paba were carried out in 48 control children (C) and 53 paediatric patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) divided into three classes by age. Ninety and 120 min after the ingestion of 15 mg/kg of BT-Paba and of a standard meal, serum Paba was determined. In the same subjects the ...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Bellentani S,Grisendi A,Rinaldi M,Bertolani P,Costa G,Agostini M,Mastella G,Balli F,Manenti F

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calorie intake and weight gain of 24 low birth weight (LBW) infants, less than 33 weeks gestation and less than 1500 g birth weight, was studied prospectively. Fourteen infants were fed on a commercially available LBW formula milk and ten were fed on their own mother's fresh unpasteurised expressed breast milk (EB...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Hendrickse WA,Spencer SA,Roberton DM,Hull D

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A girl, 13 months of age, presented with generalised granulomatous skin, hair and mucosal candidiasis. Her lymphocytes failed to respond in vitro to Candida antigen (CA); the intradermal test with CA was also negative. Serum immunoglobulins, complement components, granulocyte functions (phagocytic and fungicidal), T-c...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Corbeel L,Ceuppens JL,Van den Berghe G,Claeys H,Casteels-Van Daele M

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A five-year-old-girl with a history of recurrent hypoglycemia presented with acidosis, intractable vomiting, and abdominal tenderness; the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis was made by abdominal ultrasonography and supportive biochemical studies. Urinary organic acid analysis revealed metabolites suggestive of HMG-CoA l...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Wilson WG,Cass MB,Søvik O,Gibson KM,Sweetman L

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the first description by Catel and Manzke of hyperphalangy and clinodactyly of the index finger associated with Robin malformation sequence, seven further cases have been published. In two families more than one case occurred. Another family is presented with possibly two affected boys showing variable features ...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Brude E

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A developmental approach to the management of sleep disturbances was successful in 85% (44/52) of the children (aged 2-36 months) within 2-6 weeks. No drugs were used. The approach was based on the following two principles: taking into account the characteristics of sleep behavior in infants and young children by sett...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Largo RH,Hunziker UA

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 33 newborn infants with gestational ages ranging from 27 to 41 weeks were tested by radioimmunoassay for IgG antibodies to surface antigens of group B streptococci (GBS) types Ia, Ib, II and III. Antibody levels to GBS antigens were positively correlated to gestational age and birthweight. However, only the ...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Christensen KK,Christensen P,Duc G,Höger P,Kind C,Matsunaga T,Müller B,Seger RA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete masculinisation of the external genitalia (type V of Prader classification) is reported in two siblings with normal internal female genitalia, normal ovaries and a 46,XX chromosome constitution in different cell lines without any detectable source of exposure to androgen during pregnancy. ...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Fryns JP,Kleczkowska A,Vandenberghe K,Haspeslagh M,Van den Berghe H

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is usually considered to be a neonatal disease, and is rarely described beyond the newborn period. During the last 15 years, 19 infants from the Negev region, Israel, with NEC were beyond the neonatal age group (range = 34-616 days, median = 90 days). Of this group only 16% were born pr...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Dagan R,Ben-Yacov O,Mares AJ,Moses SW,Bar-Ziv J

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed autopsy study of three children with ornithine carbamoyl transferase (OCT) deficiency is presented. Although variable in extent, a basic pattern of neuropathological lesions is discernible. Case 1 shows gross cerebral atrophy, cases 2 and 3 milder lesions in the basal nuclei but also multiple cerebellar het...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Harding BN,Leonard JV,Erdohazi M

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct measurements of parathyroid activity are available in only small numbers of children with vitamin D deficiency rickets (VDR). Therefore serum immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (iPTH) and the urinary cyclic adenosine-3',5'-monophosphate excretion (UcAMP) were measured together with other important indices of ca...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Kruse K,Bartels H,Kracht U

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soon after birth a 36-week-gestational age, appropriate for dates, newborn infant developed hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia which responded to diazoxide and glucose infusion. While normoglycaemic, he became increasingly ill with high lactate, pyruvate, and alanine levels. Provocation tests suggested a defect in lactat...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Aynsley-Green A,Weindling AM,Soltész G,Jenkins PA

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male infant with transient citrullinemia is described. Initially, he was found to have hypertyrosinemia and hypermethioninemia upon routine neonatal screening for inborn errors of metabolism performed at 4 days of age and was revealed to have citrullinemia upon detailed examination of plasma amino acids. At 30 days ...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Ohtake A,Takayanagi M,Ogura N,Nakajima H

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-trimoxazole is an effective antibacterial agent for the prophylaxis of urinary tract infection. Because experimental evidence raises the possibility that high-dose cotrimoxazole might interfere with normal somatic growth, the longitudinal growth and growth velocities were analysed in 114 girls receiving long-term, ...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Smellie JM,Preece MA,Paton AM

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the basis for the recurrent infections in patients with glycogen storage disease (GSD) Ib we tested polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) function in one patient. Bactericidal capacity and phagocytosis-induced O2 consumption were reduced. Also, phorbol myristate acetate-stimulated superoxide production and gl...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Gahr M,Heyne K

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) is probably a genetically transmitted disease affecting infants and very young children. Cardinal symptoms are fever, hepatosplenomegaly, and pancytopenia. Frequently meningeal involvement is seen, manifested by neurologic symptoms and a lymphohistiocytic pleocytosis w...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Janka GE

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a case of hypochondrogenesis, abnormal fat deposits were found in the chondrocytes, by anatomopathological and by ultrastructural examination. In the cultured fibroblast we were unable to demonstrate abnormal lipid loading. Our case could be isolated from other types of lethal congenital chondrodysplasias--especial...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Hendrickx G,Hoefsloot F,Kramer P,Van Haelst U

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-month-old infant was admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with Pneumococcal meningitis. A few hours after admission he developed intractable convulsions that could not be stopped with phenytoin, phenobarbitone and a continuous drip of diazepam. Thiopentone sodium anaesthesia was induced for 24 h terminati...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Goitein KJ,Mussaffi H,Melamed E

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The laryngo-tracheo-oesophageal cleft is marked by a missing anatomical separation of the oesophagus and the larynx. The cleft can be restricted to the dorsal part of the larynx (type I), extend to the upper area of the trachea (type II) or involve the whole of the trachea (type III). In reviewing our three cases and ...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Roth B,Rose KG,Benz-Bohm G,Günther H

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When boys affected with steroid sulfatase deficiency are delivered, the lack of the enzyme in the placenta may cause birth complications. In postnatal life this gene defect gives rise to X-linked recessive ichthyosis. In a series of 25 patients birth complications were reported in 9 cases. Of these boys, 4 displayed b...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Traupe H,Happle R

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a five-year-old girl with congenital hepatic fibrosis raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate and serum gammaglobulins were noted for 3 years. Needle liver biopsy showed histological features of cholangitis and Klebsiella oxytoca was cultured from a liver biopsy specimen. Antibiotic treatment resulted in normalizatio...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Alvarez F,Hadchouel M,Bernard O

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma prolactin (PRL) response to arginine was examined in 16 prepubertal and 18 pubertal children with constitutional short stature, 5 patients with hyperthyroidism and 4 patients with primary hypothyroidism. The mean basal concentration of plasma PRL was significantly higher (P less than 0.01) in primary hypothyroi...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Abe K,Matsuura N,Fujita H,Fujieda K,Kato T,Nohara Y,Mikami Y,Fukushima N

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of lithium intoxication in the newborn is presented. Besides displaying extreme hypotonia and a goitre, the infant developed symptoms of congenital heart disease immediately after birth. Cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography revealed an elevated pulmonary vascular resistance and indicated that the cardi...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Filtenborg JA

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A girl, now three years old, is reported, in whom at the age of 5 months the diagnosis of 3-HMG-CoA lyase deficiency was established. The characteristic excretion pattern consisted of 3-HMG, 3-CH3-glutaconic acid, 3-CH3-glutaric acid and 3-HIVA. Activity of 3-HMG-CoA lyase in leucocytes was very low. She had compensat...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Leupold D,Bojasch M,Jakobs C

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exchange transfusion using a peripheral artery and vein was carried out 18 times in 17 newborn infants. The arteries use to withdraw blood were the radial [13], the ulnar [3] an the posterior tibial [2]. Infusion of blood was carried out simultaneously through a peripheral vein. There was no mortality or morbidity dir...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Sagi E,Eyal F,Armon Y,Arad I,Robinson M

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients developed clinical features of intracranial bleeding--which were confirmed by computerized axial tomograms--during their induction therapy for acute lymphocytic leukemia. Coagulation studies showed clotting abnormalities including severe hypofibrinogenemia. These findings most probably were related to the...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Urban C,Sager WD

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One year's experience in screening for congenital hypothyroidism in Greece is reported. Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) determination by a radioimmunoassay on dried blood spots was selected as the screening method. During the first year of screening 75,879 newborn infants were tested from Guthrie blood spots taken o...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Mengreli C,Kassiou K,Tsagaraki S,Pantelakis S

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenobarbital has been shown to offer effective prophylaxis against childhood febrile convulsions. However, a high percentage of children do not tolerate phenobarbital, mainly due to behavioral changes. Valproate, due to its low toxicity, appears to be an attractive alternative to phenobarbital treatment. Ninety child...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Lee K,Melchior JC

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven cases of phalangeal microgeodic syndrome in childhood are reported. Reviewing the literature, we have found a total of thirty Japanese cases, including the cases of our own. On the other hand, only ten cases have been reported outside Japan. The mean age of onset of the Japanese was six and a half years, which i...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Kaibara N,Masuda S,Katsuki I,Hotokebuchi T,Shibata K,Sada H,Eguchi M

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male patient with fucosidosis exhibited the following characteristics: 1. Early onset and rapid progression of neurological symptoms. 2.Skin changes compatible with angiokeratoma corporis diffusum. 3. Complete or nearly complete deficiency of alpha-fucosidase. 4. Survival to adult age (20 years). The deficiency of a...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Søvik O,Lie SO,Fluge G,Van Hoof F

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) functions are dependent on an intact intracellular cytoskeleton consisting of the microtubules and the microfilaments. To investigate the microtublule system in PMNs we observed the spontaneous, Colchicine and Diamide induced cap-formation by fluorescence microscopy ion PMNs o...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Rister M,Brucke G,Wegener F,Gladtke E

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six children with cerebral palsy were examined with respect to structural asymmetry of the mouth. In 19 children there were clear cut correlations between symmetry/asymmetry of voluntary function and the oral findings. Patients with symmetrical patterns of movements had symmetrical dentition, while in those wit...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Haberfellner H,Richter M

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two girls aged 6 and 10 years treated with anticonvulsants developed nystagmus and ataxia. The peak plasma concentrations of phenytoin were 42.6 and 46.6 microgram/ml, respectively, compatible with phenytoin toxicity. The decline in plasma phenytoin levels did not fit first order kinetics, but followed Michaelis-Mente...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Abe K,Okano M,Sasaki H

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A partial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 9 is reported in a female newborn and a 12.5 year-old male. The features expressed by both patients, and especially the peculiar type of the craniofacial dysmorphism, confirm the existence of a typical clinical syndrome associated with this partial autosomal monosomy. ...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Fryns JP,Pedersen JC,Duyck H,Fabry G,Van den Berghe H

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemostasis was studied in 8 tall girls during treatment with high doses of synthetic oestrogens for a period of 1 to 28 months. The girls received 0.5 mg ethinyloestradiol daily from day 1 to day 25 and 15 mg norethisteron daily from day 21 to day 25. All were without clinical signs of thromboembolism. Factors of the...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Muntean W,Borkenstein M

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the hepatotoxicity of rifampicin in children treated for tuberculosis, a survey was performed of 18 children receiving this medicine in combination with isoniazid. Fifteen of the 18 children (83%) showed a rise in ASAT values and 11 (61%) in ALAT values exceeding 29U/L. Seven children with maxima...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Linna O,Uhari M

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight patients with the syndrome of benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood are presented. This symptom complex is characterized by attacks of vertigo in young children combined with nystagmus, ataxia and transiently decreased vestibular function, but without impaired consciousness. Diagnostic and follow-up studies rev...

journal_title：European journal of pediatrics

authors： Koehler B

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00