abstract：:Twenty two babies who developed bronchopulmonary dysplasia were compared with 22 babies matched for gestational age who did not. Those with bronchopulmonary dysplasia weighed less at birth and had lower energy intakes from day 7 to day 56. Undernutrition before and after birth is a major problem in babies who develop ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wilson DC,McClure G,Halliday HL,Reid MM,Dodge JA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lungs of 482 liveborn infants were examined at necropsy for the presence of intravascular lipid. Forty one patients had received parenteral feeding (including lipid emulsion in 30), and 441 had died before starting feeds or had received enteral feeds alone. Tissue was processed into wax and then stained with Sudan...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Puntis JW,Rushton DI

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The difficulty of distinguishing surgically correctable causes of conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia in infants from other causes means that some infants may undergo laparotomy and intraoperative cholangiography unnecessarily, and others may be referred for surgery too late. In an attempt to improve the diagnostic accurac...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wilkinson ML,Mieli-Vergani G,Ball C,Portmann B,Mowat AP

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 37 children with refractory wide-spread atopic eczema were treated with an antigen avoidance regimen comprising hospitalisation, exclusive feeding with an elemental formula for a median duration of 30 days, and measures to reduce exposure to pet and dust mite antigens at home. After the initial period of fo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Devlin J,David TJ,Stanton RH

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 25 year period, 31 asthmatic children received artificial ventilation for acute asthma at Alder Hey Children's Hospital on 48 occasions. Altogether 47 episodes occurred from 1971-89, with no decline in the number of episodes per year (mean 2.5) over this period. Eight children died during intermittent positive ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Seddon PC,Heaf DP

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes bearing the T cell receptor gamma delta (TCR-gamma delta) were searched for in human early milk lymphocyte suspensions by two colour cytofluorimetric analysis. It was found that the proportion of TCR-gamma delta+ cells was twofold greater in colostrum than in either autologous or heterologous blood samples...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bertotto A,Castellucci G,Fabietti G,Scalise F,Vaccaro R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to date reference ranges were established for fasting renal excretion of calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium on 101 healthy children aged 2-15 years. A normal range for intact parathyroid hormone was also measured. The indices of calcium and magnesium excretion showed no correlation with age or sex so that a common ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shaw NJ,Wheeldon J,Brocklebank JT

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven very low birthweight babies being ventilated for respiratory problems during the first week of life developed air leaks on 22 occasions. On 16 out of 19 occasions the infants showed increases in urinary excretion of vasopressin after these events and on 10 occasions out of 13 there was a rise in the plasma argi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McIntosh N,Prakash P,Smith A

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the natural history and psychological impact of the growth pattern in boys with constitutional delay in growth and puberty (CDGP), 43 boys presenting with short stature due to CDGP were followed up to final height. At presentation mean (SD) chronological age was 14.0 (1.9) years, bone age delay 2.7 (1.0) ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Crowne EC,Shalet SM,Wallace WH,Eminson DM,Price DA

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:Twenty-one babies of 34-41 weeks' gestational age with birth asphyxia (5 minute Apgar score less than or equal to 5 or umbilical artery pH less than or equal to 7.2) were studied during the first two days of life to find out whether the urinary excretion of tubular markers of renal function is of value in the early di...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Roberts DS,Haycock GB,Dalton RN,Turner C,Tomlinson P,Stimmler L,Scopes JW

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial recording in 45 low risk fetuses throughout the second and third trimesters showed that hiccups were the predominant diaphragmatic movement before 26 weeks' gestational age and that there was a significant negative correlation with gestational age. There was a pronounced reduction between 24 and 26 weeks, which...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pillai M,James D

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between measurements of lateral ventricle area (determined by serial ultrasound scans) and outcome was studied in 70 preterm neonates of 33 weeks' gestation or less. The study group was subdivided into four groups according to cranial ultrasonographic findings at 2 weeks postnatal age: group A (n = 15)...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Saliba E,Bertrand P,Gold F,Marchand S,Laugier J

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma concentration was measured after rectal and nasogastric administration of paracetamol 15 mg/kg to 28 febrile children aged between 9 days to 7 years who had undergone cardiac surgery. After equivalent doses, rectal administration in neonates and children on the first postoperative day was found to produce plasm...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hopkins CS,Underhill S,Booker PD

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening for hearing loss in the first year of life, using the distraction test, remains the responsibility of health visitors in most health districts in the United Kingdom. We have evaluated the screening procedure used routinely in one health region in a population of infants at increased risk of sensorineural dea...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Johnson A,Ashurst H

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children at three inner city child health clinics were offered haemoglobin estimation by fingerprick blood test when attending for immunisation against measles. Of the 98 immunised, 92 (94%) participated in the study, together with 58 other children. Anaemia (haemoglobin concentration less than 110 g/l) was found in 3...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Marder E,Nicoll A,Polnay L,Shulman CE

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten preterm infants with recurrent respiratory symptoms (median gestational age 30 weeks) were entered into a non-randomised placebo controlled trial of bronchodilator treatment at 12.5 months of age. The infants had coughed or wheezed, or both, on at least four days a week for the past month. The infants received eit...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Yuksel B,Greenough A,Maconochie I

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 164 children born within the defined boundaries of greater Manchester during the years 1981 to 1984 inclusive were identified as having bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, giving a prevalence of 1.2/1000 population of 1/817 births. Ninety three children developed an additional conductive hearing loss sec...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Das VK

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a five and a half year period, exchange transfusions were performed through the peripheral vessels in 201 of the 214 infants (94%) who required either double volume or partial plasma exchange transfusions. Peripheral vessel exchange transfusion is simple, practicable, and safe with few complications. Technical ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fok TF,So LY,Leung KW,Wong W,Feng CS,Tsang SS

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long term results of treatment of inhalation of foreign bodies in a district children's hospital and in a tertiary referral centre were reviewed by clinical assessment, chest radiography, and standard four view 81mKr ventilation/99mTc macroaggregated albumin perfusion imaging (V/Q lung scan). The overall incidence...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Davies H,Gordon I,Matthew DJ,Helms P,Kenney IJ,Lutkin JE,Lenney W

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9 year old boy with intractable postprandial reflex vomiting was taught a self hypnotherapy technique incorporating relaxation exercises, mental imagery, and suggestions of symptom relief. The sequence was recorded on a personal stereo cassette tape. Vomiting was completely eliminated within four weeks. At 12 month ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sokel BS,Devane SP,Bentovim A,Milla PJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spirometric data from 1586 healthy children, who did not smoke, were analysed to examine the effects of overweight as measured by the body mass index (weight/height2) on lung function. Overweight (72 boys, 88 girls) was defined as on or above the 90th percentile weight for height. After having controlled for the confo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fung KP,Lau SP,Chow OK,Lee J,Wong TW

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified 410 infants who were not walking independently by the age of 18 months from among a geographically defined population of 4275 infants who either were born weighing less than 2000 g or had needed admission to the special care nursery in the neonatal period. The outcome of the late walkers was ascertained ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Johnson A,Goddard O,Ashurst H

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a two year period 100 infants with histories of wheeze were challenged with nebulised water. They were sedated and lung function measured by total body plethysmography. Thirteen of the 53 infants who developed bronchoconstriction after challenge with nebulised water were given nebulised sodium cromoglycate and re...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Callaghan C,Milner AD,Swarbrick A

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium spp are a cause of diarrhoea in toddlers. Symptoms and routes of transmission were investigated in a prospective case-control study in the city and surroundings of Basel, Switzerland. Twenty one (4.6%) out of 455 children with diarrhoea who attended paediatric and general practices from June to Septemb...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Egger M,Mäusezahl D,Odermatt P,Marti HP,Tanner M

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed metabolic balance studies in 77 preterm infants fed on human milk or adapted formulas, to determine the renal solute load and compared it with the potential renal solute load estimated by the composition of the diet or the urine according to Ziegler's, Bergman's, and Shaw's calculations. The renal solute ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： De Curtis M,Senterre J,Rigo J

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial splenectomy was performed on 30 patients with homozygous beta thalassaemia to reduce blood requirements and to avoid the risk of overwhelming postsplenectomy infections; 24 patients had thalassaemia major and six thalassaemia intermedia. Five patients received a high transfusion regimen before and after surger...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Montalembert M,Girot R,Revillon Y,Jan D,Adjrad L,Ardjoun FZ,Belhani M,Najean Y

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relevance of providing a rapid anticonvulsant monitoring service was assessed over a five year period at a paediatric epilepsy outpatient clinic. Altogether 481 drug assays were performed on 144 patients when considered clinically indicated. Drugs most frequently assayed were carbamazepine and sodium valproate, si...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Houtman PN,Hall SK,Green A,Rylance GW

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:School medical records of 1000 children born in 1981 were studied retrospectively. They showed that once known medical problems and those screened for by the school nurse (hearing, vision, growth) were excluded, only 17 problems requiring treatment were discovered: speech (n = 10), development (n = 3), undescended tes...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smith GC,Powell A,Reynolds K,Campbell CA

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：: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：:Diabetic control in 88 children attending three general paediatric clinics was compared prospectively over one year with that of 89 children attending a specialist paediatric diabetic clinic. Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1) concentration and days admitted were significantly lower in the group attending the specialist clin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bloomfield S,Farquhar JW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 100 patients with cystic fibrosis the severity of steatorrhoea was assessed by three separate methods. Using chemical faecal fat assay as the gold standard, two other rapid and inexpensive methods were compared with it. The steatocrit method proved unreliable in our hands and gave little indication of the presence ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Walters MP,Kelleher J,Gilbert J,Littlewood JM

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:Six neonates with aneurysms of the vein of Galen are described: five were associated with an intracerebral arteriovenous fistula and presented with heart failure in the neonatal period; one had hydrocephalus at birth. Two infants died from intractable cardiac failure within 48 hours of age and two from progressive hyd...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Donnabhain D,Duff DF

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：:Zinc absorption was measured in 37 children with malnutrition using the oral zinc tolerance test (22.5 mg elementary zinc) and the results compared with those of a group of healthy control subjects. The increase in plasma zinc was significantly lower in patients with marasmic kwashiorkor than in the control group. The...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Atalay Y,Arcasoy A,Kürkçüoğlu M

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three paediatric pathologists, one perinatal paediatrician, one obstetrician, and one epidemiologist separately used information collected on 239 babies in an attempt to validate the Wigglesworth classification of perinatal deaths. This was first done using clinical data only, then using the combination of clinical an...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Keeling JW,MacGillivray I,Golding J,Wigglesworth J,Berry J,Dunn PM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1973 a survey was conducted among 12 year old children living in a defined area of South Wales. In 1988 the survey was repeated in the same area, again among 12 year old children. Questionnaires were completed for all 965 children in the population sample; peak expiratory flow rates were performed on them all, and ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Burr ML,Butland BK,King S,Vaughan-Williams E

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00