abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis was identified in 37 of 73 consecutive neonates with purulent conjunctivitis, including four delivered by caesarean section with intact membranes. Most (28/37) presented in the first week. Infection was significantly associated with referral from the community. Genital C. trachomatis infection wa...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Barry WC,Teare EL,Uttley AH,Wilson SA,McManus TJ,Lim KS,Gamsu H,Price JF

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The age at which retinopathy of prematurity was first seen was determined in 143 infants. In all, the initial ophthalmological examination was normal. Birth weights varied from 630 to 2700 g and gestational ages from 24.5 to 40.0 weeks. The median postnatal age at which acute retinopathy of prematurity was first seen ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fielder AR,Ng YK,Levene MI

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluids used for flushing arterial catheters, bronchial lavage, and drug administration are not normally considered when assessing daily fluid intake, yet infants weighing less than 1000 g at birth gained up to 12 ml/kg/day of extra fluid and 2.4 mmol/kg/day (mean) of extra sodium from these hidden sources. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Noble-Jamieson CM,Kuzmin P,Airede KI

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two neonates with severe culture proven pertussis were successfully treated with salbutamol 0.5 mg three times daily. There was a demonstrable decrease in the total number of coughing spasms, their mean duration and severity. In one baby this was shown by the transcutaneous oxygen tension measurements. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tam AY,Yeung CY

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that because of vascular interchange between the monozygous twins vascular disruptions from a deceased cotwin with disseminated intravascular coagulation causes embolisation in the surviving twin. This study reports six cases in which all the surviving monozygous twins had central nervous system ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Szymonowicz W,Preston H,Yu VY

更新日期：1986-05-01 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：:A 3 year old girl with Down's syndrome became lethargic and withdrawn, and investigations showed a specific malabsorption of vitamin B12 without proteinuria. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cartlidge PH,Curnock DA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a prospective study in which we investigated why children fail to get vaccinated against whooping cough, including an assessment of the attitudes of parents and professionals and the impact of different views of the contraindications. There was considerable disagreement among the professionals on the inter...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Stevens D,Baker R,Hands S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurodevelopmental state of 41 children with congenital cytomegalovirus infection and their controls was assessed at 2 years using the Griffiths scale. The scores achieved by children with congenital cytomegalovirus but with no associated neurological abnormality (asymptomatic) were similar to those of the control...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pearl KN,Preece PM,Ades A,Peckham CS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic rhythms were studied over 24 hours in eight adolescent diabetic patients during treatment with porcine insulin and after transfer to human insulin. Despite an increase in dose with human insulin no significant changes were found in fasting blood glucose, 24h mean blood glucose, or glycosylated haemoglobin co...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hocking MD,Crase J,Rayner PH,Nattrass M

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early postnatal malnutrition produces delay in growth and developmental processes, and children from a low socioeconomical level where undernutrition is prevalent are shorter than those from higher socioeconomic levels. We examined the effects of severe and early protein energy malnutrition on growth and bone maturati...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Alvear J,Artaza C,Vial M,Guerrero S,Muzzo S

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of saliva and nasal secretions were collected sequentially from 15 breast fed and 15 bottle fed infants on five occasions between 6 days and 9 months of age. Total immunoglobulin concentrations of G, M, and A classes, and class specific antibodies to tetanus toxoid and a pool of commensal strains of Escherichi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Stephens S

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sodium intake of preschool children in their home environment was investigated and the major sources of sodium other than added table salt identified. Thirty five children from a Southampton general practice were studied. Twenty four hour urinary sodium excretion was measured as a reliable indicator of daily total...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Allison ME,Walker V

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty preterm infants (birthweight under 1500 g) were treated with phenobarbitone to examine its effectiveness in reducing the incidence of intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH), the control group comprising 28 infants. The treated group had 57% incidence of IVH and mortality of 13% compared with 68% and 14%, respective...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Anwar M,Kadam S,Hiatt IM,Hegyi T

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24 hour energy balance study was carried out on 20 black Kenyan children with acute measles and repeated after recovery. The energy content of a weighed 24 hour food intake and of a simultaneous collection of faeces and urine was determined by bomb calorimetry. Energy expenditure was measured by indirect calorimetry...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Duggan MB,Alwar J,Milner RD

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The numbers of children under 5 years in South Glamorgan admitted to hospital because of accidental poisoning have been analysed for 1980-4. There has been no significant fall in those taking solid dose, prescribable medications since the voluntary agreement between the government and the pharmaceutical profession in ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sibert JR,Clarke AJ,Mitchell MP

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolites of vitamin D were measured in plasma from 83 patients with idiopathic infantile hypercalcaemia syndrome who were mentally handicapped but had normal calcium values at the time of the study. No significant difference was detected in the mean plasma concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D2, 1,25-dihydroxyvitam...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Martin ND,Snodgrass GJ,Cohen RD,Porteous CE,Coldwell RD,Trafford DJ,Makin HL

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A register has been compiled of the 421 children with congenital cerebral palsy born between 1960 and 1975 from a defined geographical area of North East England (population 770 000). There was a fall in the rate of cerebral palsy among very low birthweight babies between 1964 and 1975 and also in the small group with...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jarvis SN,Holloway JS,Hey EN

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus presenting in children under five years old exhibits several clinical and management features that differ from diabetes presenting in older children. In this review of the current population of the Oxford children's diabetes clinic, children with diabetes diagnosed aged 0- less than...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jefferson IG,Smith MA,Baum JD

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe our technique of small bowel biopsy, which has been used on 190 occasions over a four year period. In 77%, the examination was completed within 10 minutes, and fluoroscopy times were less than 10 seconds in 75% of the cases. The technique is easily taught, and it has made the examination a minor procedure....

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Collins AL,Brookfield DS,Hyde I,Rolles CJ

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty four children with acute bronchiolitis were given twice daily chest physiotherapy in addition to standard supportive measures and were compared with 46 controls who were not given physiotherapy. There was no clinically discernable benefit on the course of their illness. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Webb MS,Martin JA,Cartlidge PH,Ng YK,Wright NA

更新日期：1985-11-01 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 Prematometer is a new instrument for the accurate measurement of the length of small neonates inside incubators. It is capable of giving precise results. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Smith RA,Newcombe RG,Coggins AM,Gray OP

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy three preterm infants weighing less than 1500 g or less than 32 weeks' gestation, or both, were allocated randomly to treatment (fresh frozen plasma 10 ml/kg on admission and at 24 hours of age) or control groups. Fifteen (41%) out of 37 control patients sustained intraventricular haemorrhage compared with fiv...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Beverley DW,Pitts-Tucker TJ,Congdon PJ,Arthur RJ,Tate G

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial nephritis was diagnosed at renal biopsy in 10 previously healthy children. All had identical clinical symptoms: anaemia, raised sedimentation rate, low glomerular filtration rate, protein and leucocytes in the urine, but no bacteria; nine also had glycosuria. Six of the children had a history of recent in...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Koskimies O,Holmberg C

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipofuscin develops in cells when peroxidation damage occurs. Its development in the liver of patients receiving prolonged parenteral nutrition suggests that peroxidation damage by free radicals has occurred. Deficiencies in antioxidants such as vitamin E may be an important contributing factor. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Berger HM,Den Ouden AL,Calame JJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four preterm infants of very low birthweight (less than 1500 g) developed signs of copper deficiency between age 8 and 10 weeks. All had required prolonged ventilatory support, parenteral nutrition, and nasojejunal feeding. The clinical features, which included osteoporosis, oedema, anaemia, neutropenia, and late apno...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sutton AM,Harvie A,Cockburn F,Farquharson J,Logan RW

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two neonates with spontaneous rupture of the bladder and an otherwise normal genitourinary tract are described. Conservative management resulted in complete resolution of the lesion in one but the other child died from a coliform septicaemia. Necropsy showed a discrete ischaemic lesion in the fundus of the bladder. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morrell P,Coulthard MG,Hey EN

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polygraphic recordings were made on 10 preterm infants recovering from respiratory distress syndrome and 12 healthy preterm control infants at 40, 52, and 64 weeks' conceptual age to study the influence of respiratory distress syndrome on the development of the sleep apnoea profile. Two significant differences were fo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bentele KH,Albani M,Budde C,Schulte FJ

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with raised intracranial pressure responding to ventriculoperitoneal shunting are described in whom ultrasound failed to show dilated ventricles. The importance of not equating absence of ventricular dilatation with normal pressure and ventricular dilatation with high pressure is emphasised. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pilling DW,Cudmore RE

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:General practice records of 1058 children were studied to determine the incidence, prevalence, natural history, diagnosis, and treatment of wheezing presenting in the first 21 years of life. Up to 7 years of age, boys were more likely to present with wheeze and to have recurrent episodes. Later there was a higher inci...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Strachan DP

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of negative hydrogen breath tests due to colonic bacterial flora which are unable to produce hydrogen was determined after oral lactulose challenge in 98 healthy Dutch schoolchildren. There was a negative result in 9.2%. The probability of a false normal lactose breath test (1:77) was calculated from the...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Douwes AC,Schaap C,van der Klei-van Moorsel JM

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Albuminuria was studied in 40 diabetic children before and after a standardised exercise test, and also in 21 normal children; the results are expressed as geometric mean (95% range) of urine albumin:urine creatinine ratio (mg/mg). There was no significant difference between the mean resting albumin:creatinine ratio i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jefferson IG,Greene SA,Smith MA,Smith RF,Griffin NK,Baum JD

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin concentrations were determined in 64 consecutively born preterm babies at birth and serially throughout each baby's stay in the neonatal unit. No significant IgG generation was found during the first 15 weeks of life, regression analysis giving an exponential decay model. Concentrations fell to 2 g/l or...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Conway SP,Dear PR,Smith I

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A preterm infant with classic phenylketonuria required rather less than 90 mg/kg of phenylalanine and between 270 and 290 mg/kg tyrosine daily to achieve a rate of weight gain of around 20 g/kg per day. Using Lofenalac as the low phenylalanine food, the intake of tyrosine, an essential amino acid for patients with phe...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shortland D,Smith I,Francis DE,Ersser R,Wolff OH

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9 year old girl presented with clinical manifestations of Henoch-Schönlein syndrome and macroscopic haematuria. Laboratory investigations showed selective IgA deficiency and renal biopsy showed mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis with diffuse granular deposits of C3 on immunofluorescence. IgA deposits were ab...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Martini A,Ravelli A,Notarangelo LD,Burgio VL,Plebani A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Real time ultrasonography of the pelvic organs was performed on 114 normal premenarcheal girls aged between 2 years and 13 years 11 months. Values were obtained for total uterine length, anteroposterior diameters of the corpus and cervix, corpus/cervix ratio, and uterine and ovarian volumes and the resultant data were...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Salardi S,Orsini LF,Cacciari E,Bovicelli L,Tassoni P,Reggiani A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal transmission of hepatitis B virus infection in relation to the hepatitis B e antigen/antibody system and serum hepatitis B virus-DNA were evaluated. Results indicate that hepatitis B virus-DNA analysis can identify hepatitis B serum antigen positive mothers who may transmit infection to their offspring. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： De Virgiliis S,Frau F,Sanna G,Turco MP,Figus AL,Cornacchia G,Cao A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty nine children of short stature exercised for 10 minutes on a non-motorised treadmill. In 49 a growth hormone concentration of greater than 15 mU/l was reached, effectively excluding growth hormone deficiency. In 10 children the growth hormone concentration failed to reach 15 mU/l; growth hormone deficiency was c...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de San Lazaro C,Parkin JM,Turner SJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twice daily sustained release theophylline gave satisfactory steady serum theophylline concentrations in asthmatic children aged 7 to 14 years. The children showed improvement in symptoms, less frequent waking at night, reduced use of beta agonist inhalers, and improved early morning peak flows while being treated wit...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elias-Jones AC,Higenbottam TW,Barnes ND,Godden DJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00