abstract：:A questionnaire study regarding airway morbidity in children and environmental factors was performed in April 1985. The parents of 5301 children, aged 6 months to 16 years, from different rural areas in mid Sweden were sent a validated questionnaire and 4990 (94%) responded. The cumulative prevalence of bronchial hype...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Andrae S,Axelson O,Björkstén B,Fredriksson M,Kjellman NI

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of babies colonised with gentamicin resistant Gram negative organisms in a nursery over a 30 month period did not correlate with the quantity or duration of aminoglycosides used, but it did correlate with two indicators of workload: the number of baby days and a score based on the level of nursing care ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Isaacs D,Catterson J,Hope PL,Moxon ER,Wilkinson AR

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient triggered ventilation was assessed in 14 neonates (gestational age 24-40 weeks). Inspiratory changes in airflow, monitored by a pneumotachograph, were used to trigger the ventilator and this was not associated with complications. Patient triggered ventilation was maintained for up to eight hours (mean duration...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Greenough A,Pool J

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a three year period 444 requests for the neonatal transfer of babies with acute medical problems were received at this regional neonatal medical unit. Despite an increase in available resources in the North Western Health Region the provision of intensive care remained inadequate with 38% of requests declined, an...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Roper HP,Chiswick ML,Sims DG

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six families with at least one infant each with confirmed ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency were investigated by DNA analysis. All the affected sons had died, and no DNA had been stored. Using the restriction endonucleases MspI and Bam HI three restriction fragment length polymorphisms were detected which led to e...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Svirklys LG,Wilcken B,Hammond J,Mackinlay AG,O'Sullivan WJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histological examination of the breasts of 26 infants and young children who died suddenly between the ages of 3 weeks and 2 years was performed. The glands were composed of well formed lobules surrounded by dense interlobular stroma, while within the lobules there was looser connective tissue. The lobules contained d...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： McKiernan J,Coyne J,Cahalane S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three babies said to have had 'meconium stained liquor' were subsequently found never to have passed meconium. The green discoloured liquor was the result of bilious vomiting in utero secondary to intestinal obstruction. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Griffiths DM,Burge DM

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus was observed in 29 of 448 patients with thalassaemia major attending seven Italian centres. Twelve patients, at onset of clinical diabetes, presented with an asymptomatic glycosuria, 13 with ketosis, and four with ketoacidosis. All were diagnosed after 1979, at a mean age of 17 years. Mean age at dia...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： De Sanctis V,Zurlo MG,Senesi E,Boffa C,Cavallo L,Di Gregorio F

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma amino acids were measured in 35 preterm infants, of whom 11 weighed less than 1000 g and 24 weighed between 1000 g and 1500 g at the time of sampling. Repeat samples were obtained in 18 at least seven days later. Seventeen infants were fed with preterm formula milk and 18 with expressed maternal breast milk at ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ventura V,Brooke OG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty five patients with encephalitis were studied prospectively, and their clinical and virological features compared with outcome. Among 22 patients with laboratory confirmation of virus infection, evidence of direct effect on the central nervous system by the virus occurred significantly more often both in those w...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kennedy CR,Duffy SW,Smith R,Robinson RO

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm infants with symptomatic patent ductus arteriosus had considerably raised plasma concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide. Surgical ligation of the patent ductus arteriosus was associated with an immediate fall in plasma atrial natriuretic peptide concentration. Thus left to right shunting and left atrial ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rascher W,Seyberth HW

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A volumetric Doppler technique was used to measure net ductus arteriosus shunt during the first 48 hours of life in 30 infants of less than 33 weeks' gestation, and in 10 full term infants. In the full term infants a left to right shunt of 62 ml/kg/minute (95% confidence limits 43-82) shortly after birth decreased rap...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Drayton MR,Skidmore R

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective medical examination of children starting school has been operated in Cramlington for five years, and the data for the school year 1984-85 are reported. It is argued that the 'routine medical' is an outdated concept and that its abolition would allow more time for more important aspects of educational medicin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Callaghan EM,Colver AF

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of chemoprophylaxis with rifampicin and isoniazid in 1981 significantly reduced the incidence of tuberculosis. Between 1978 and 1981 children accounted for 136 of 642 notified cases, and this was reduced to 55 of 418 between 1982 and 1986. This effect was most obvious among children from the Indian su...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ormerod LP

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospective analysis of glycosylated haemoglobin concentrations in a diabetic outpatient clinic over three and a half years showed a small seasonal variation in the mean value with a peak in mid February and a nadir in mid August. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ferrie CD,Sharpe TC,Price DA,Surtees RA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum IgG antibodies to teichoic acid and alpha toxin from Staphylococcus aureus were measured in 62 patients with cystic fibrosis by enzyme linked immunosorbent assays. The patients were followed up for 12-24 months in a prospective study. Raised titres were found exclusively in patients chronically colonised with S ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hollsing AE,Granström M,Strandvik B

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a family in which the father carried a balanced translocation between chromosomes 15 and 22 two of his children had Prader-Willi syndrome and an unbalanced chromosome complement, having lost the proximal bands from the long arm of chromosome 15. His four other surviving children were normal but carried a balanced t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fernandez F,Berry C,Mutton D

更新日期：1987-08-01 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：:Mortality before surgery must be taken into account when comparing the surgical mortality of atrial redirection procedures (Mustard's or Senning's operation) and the arterial switch operation for patients with complete transposition. This is because the switch operation is usually performed within the neonatal period ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mok Q,Darvell F,Mattos S,Smith T,Fayers P,Rigby ML,Shinebourne EA

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The age distribution of anginose infectious mononucleosis in children was analysed retrospectively for the years 1966-85. During that period the disease became significantly more common in children of a young age and less common in older children. This shift could not be attributed either to socioeconomic conditions o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Spirer Z,Holtzman M,Melamed I,Shalit I

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty children (age range 75 days-47 months) with reflux oesophagitis entered a random double blind trial in which they received either Cisapride (Janssen Pharmaceutical Ltd), a new prokinetic agent, or an identical placebo syrup. Diagnosis of gastro-oesophageal reflux was made by measurement of intraluminal oesophag...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cucchiara S,Staiano A,Capozzi C,Di Lorenzo C,Boccieri A,Auricchio S

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If cord blood IgE is used to detect those predisposed to become allergic it is important to define appropriately the normal values for this measurement. A commonly cited cut off point is 1.0 IU/ml. We analysed 5353 cord blood samples for IgE by means of an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. Descriptive statistics of t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kimpen J,Callaert H,Embrechts P,Bosmans E

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：:Two hundred and twenty eight deprived children were compared with a matched sample of more endowed children living in the same urban area. Both groups were served by the same experienced primary health care team. The deprived group had a significantly higher number of general practitioner consultations and admissions ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Marsh GN,Channing DM

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The airway response to nebulised ipratropium bromide was studied in 17 chronically or recurrently wheezy infants aged 4-15 months. The peripheral airway response was assessed by the change in maximum flow at functional residual capacity (Vmax FRC) and the upper and central airway response by the change in specific air...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Prendiville A,Green S,Silverman M

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial exercise tests were carried out by 12 children with asthma on two study days. After a control exercise test either nedocromil sodium 4 mg or placebo were given double blind by metered dose inhaler. Highly significant inhibition of exercise induced asthma occurred after nedocromil, lasting for over two hours. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chudry N,Correa F,Silverman M

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults have shown that the requirement for assisted ventilation correlates closely with a poor outcome, and the need for ventilation is now being used as an indication for plasmapheresis. As comparable studies in children have not been performed we reviewed our experience o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cole GF,Matthew DJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild hypnotics are often recommended for young children with sleep problems. This study assesses the efficacy of trimeprazine tartrate in 1 to 3 year old children with persistent and severe night waking in a double blind crossover trial with placebo. Children on treatment with trimeprazine had significantly fewer waki...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Simonoff EA,Stores G

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent daytime incontinence is a fairly uncommon but important problem. Videourodynamic studies were carried out in 215 children presenting with this problem in whom there were no neurological signs and who had not responded to simple measures. Over 90% of symptomatic children were shown to have an abnormality, of...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Borzyskowski M,Mundy AR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of platelet thromboxane B2, a stable metabolite of thromboxane A2, was measured in seven newborn infants with pulmonary hypertension during the first day of life. Platelet thromboxane B2 production was significantly lower than in 12 healthy controls but did not correlate with simultaneous blood gas values. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kääpä P

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes 48 children, aged 14 years or less, who met diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa modified from Morgan and Russell. The characteristics of the sample (13 boys and 35 girls) are described along with features of the illness, associated family characteristics, treatment in hospital, and a brief de...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fosson A,Knibbs J,Bryant-Waugh R,Lask B

更新日期：1987-02-01 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：: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：:Measurements of the resistance, time constant, and compliance of the respiratory system were made in 25 mechanically ventilated, preterm babies on 32 occasions, using the single breath technique. Patients were classified according to the level of respiratory resistance by reference to a population of 36 babies studied...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Prendiville A,Thomson A,Silverman M

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double blind crossover trial of 20 micrograms intranasal 1-deamino-8-d-arginine vasopressin (DDAVP) versus placebo was carried out in 17 children with intractable enuresis aged between 6 and 13 years who had failed to respond to drugs and an enuresis alarm. Fluid intake was not restricted. There was a significant re...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dimson SB

更新日期：1986-11-01 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：:Six newborn infants with intrauterine supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (five cases of atrial flutter and one of supraventricular tachycardia) are described. Transplacental digitalisation was attempted in three cases. Supraventricular tachycardia associated with hydrops fetalis, detected in a fetus at a gestation of 3...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nagashima M,Asai T,Suzuki C,Matsushima M,Ogawa A

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11 year old girl developed progressive upper gastrointestinal ulceration and recurrent episodes of intravenous catheter associated polymicrobial septicaemia. Evaluation failed to establish a cause. After exclusion of the parents and careful surveillance of the patient she improved, supporting the diagnosis of suspe...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rubin LG,Angelides A,Davidson M,Lanzkowsky P

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4 year old boy developed a profound motor neuropathy after repeated deliberate inhalation of petroleum vapour. The condition was characterised by extreme slowing of the nerve conduction velocity. He made a gradual recovery over six months. The neuropathy was attributed to the N-hexane component of petroleum. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hall DM,Ramsey J,Schwartz MS,Dookun D

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9 year old girl presenting with multiple glomus tumours is reported. Multiple glomus tumours are rare, often asymptomatic lesions, with a familial tendency and found in a more proximal location than their solitary counterparts. In our report four close relatives had similar lesions. Indications for surgical excision...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Beasley SW,Mel J,Chow CW,Jones PG

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00