abstract：:At the Birmingham Maternity Hospital the mean cost of caring for surviving infants who require neonatal intensive care ranges from approximately pounds 2500 (for infants above 1500 g birthweight), to pounds 5500 (for infants 1000 to 1499 g birthweight), to pounds 10 000 (for infants less than 1000 g birthweight). The ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Newns B,Drummond MF,Durbin GM,Culley P

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Japanese outbreaks of erythema infectiosum were investigated for evidence of human parvovirus infection by a solid phase antibody capture radioimmunoassay based on a monoclonal antibody to human parvovirus. Specific IgM and high concentrations of specific IgG were detected in 37 sera from 27 children with erythema...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Okabe N,Koboyashi S,Tatsuzawa O,Mortimer PP

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the results of a prospective study in which 120 women who developed hypertension in the last trimester of pregnancy were randomly allocated in double blind manner to atenolol or placebo. The mean duration of treatment was five weeks. The only difference between groups during the neonatal period was in resp...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reynolds B,Butters L,Evans J,Adams T,Rubin PC

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of weight for height and triceps skinfold with seven respiratory symptoms has been examined using logistic regression analysis in 7800 5 to 11 year old children (6200 in England and 1600 in Scotland). The results support the view that overweight children have a greater liability to some respiratory sym...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Somerville SM,Rona RJ,Chinn S

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient hyperphosphatasaemia is usually a chance finding arising from the use of biochemical screening profiles. Clinical correlates in cases so far described have been non-specific. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Arthur LJ,Hill PG,Attenburrow AA

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal sodium handling was studied in 23 children at three different stages of the minimal change nephrotic syndrome--the oedema forming state, proteinuric steady state, and remission. Clearances of inulin and para-aminohippuric acid and urinary sodium excretion were determined basally, after intravenous infusion of is...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bohlin AB,Berg U

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two children with ruptured, multiple hydatid cysts treated with mebendazole. Long term follow up has confirmed the success of this treatment. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Karpathios T,Syriopoulou V,Nicolaidou P,Messaritakis J

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal D-fructose absorption in 31 children was investigated using measurements of breath hydrogen. Twenty five children had no abdominal symptoms and six had functional bowel disorders. After ingestion of fructose (2 g/kg bodyweight), 22 children (71%) showed a breath hydrogen increase of more than 10 ppm over ba...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kneepkens CM,Vonk RJ,Fernandes J

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty nine preterm infants of between 1.0 and 2.0 kg birthweight who were fed 250 ml/kg/day of breast milk or standard formulas gained weight at the intrauterine rate without complications. It is suggested that high volume feeding is a satisfactory alternative to low birthweight formula milks and is more desirable in ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lewis MA,Smith BA

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intravenous urogram and micturating cystourethrogram were carried out in 100 infants presenting with documented urinary tract infections. Ninety three cases were identified by suprapubic aspiration and 7 by culture of two voided urine samples containing greater than 100 X 10(6) organisms per litre. The urinary trac...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bourchier D,Abbott GD,Maling TM

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred children with glass injuries were investigated; 48 were injured in falls through architectural glass and 87 by broken bottles. Nine children had serious lacerations--7 of which were sustained at home. Radiographs were important in diagnosing retained fragments but prophylactic antibiotics were unnecessary....

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bell D

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gross neuropathy consequent upon selective malabsorption of vitamin B12 was diagnosed in a 6 year old Bangladeshi girl brought to Great Britain for further investigation of an unexplained illness of three years' duration. The initial peripheral blood count was normal. Treatment with vitamin B12 has led to substantial ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Conway SP,Gillies DR,Littlewood JM

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trial was conducted using sequential analysis by pairs to compare the efficacy of corticosteroids and salicylates in the treatment of acute rheumatic carditis. The results show a significantly favourable effect of steroid treatment both in clinical response and in reduction of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate. In ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Human DG,Hill ID,Fraser CB

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary ciliary dyskinesia was shown in a 12 year old boy with bronchiectasis who had developed hydrocephalus in the neonatal period. The possible relevance of his ciliary abnormality is discussed. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Greenstone MA,Jones RW,Dewar A,Neville BG,Cole PJ

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty preterm infants (gestational age 26 to 30 weeks) were investigated by cross sectional echocardiography using a 5 or 7.5 MHz transducer positioned in the suprasternal notch or the left subclavicular position to enable visualisation of the aortic arch, main pulmonary artery, left pulmonary artery, and ductus arte...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rigby ML,Pickering D,Wilkinson A

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile cytopathic toxin was found in the faeces or gut content of five of 39 neonates with necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). Toxin concentrations were uniformly low and did not differ from those found in healthy neonates. C difficile is unlikely to be involved in the pathogenesis of NEC. Stools from 33 b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thomas DF,Fernie DS,Bayston R,Spitz L

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen blind babies who were considered to be showing the characteristics of delayed visual maturation were studied prospectively. The diagnosis was made on clinical grounds, and the criteria for this are discussed. All of these infants developed visual responses between 4 and 6 months of age and had normal or near n...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cole GF,Hungerford J,Jones RB

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9 year old girl with symptoms of the Sjögren syndrome showed interstitial lymphocytic infiltrate on renal biopsy. Two years later she had clinical and biological evidence of systemic lupus erythematosus, associated with a typical glomerulonephritis. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Palcoux JB,Janin-Mercier A,Campagne D,Fonck Y,Betail G

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse triiodothyronine (rT3), triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4), and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) values were measured by radioimmunoassay in 40 children with congenital hypothyroidism who were being given levothyroxine (0.05-0.35 mg/day) and in 14 normal controls. In 15 of the children with hypothyroidism ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Desai M,Irani AJ,Patil K,Pandya CS

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality from cystic fibrosis throughout childhood is more than twice as high in England and Wales than it is in the State of Victoria, Australia. Possible reasons for this difference are reviewed. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Phelan P,Hey E

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty nine infants with severe asphyxia (28 affected perinatally and 11 later) were studied by electrophysiological cerebral function monitoring (CFM) for periods varying from a half to 49 days. Nineteen infants died while still in intensive care and two died later from sequelae. Eighteen survived and were followed u...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bjerre I,Hellström-Westas L,Rosén I,Svenningsen N

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy infants with suspected bacterial infection in the first 48 hours of life were treated either with piperacillin and flucloxacillin or with penicillin and gentamicin. Infection was confirmed and successfully eradicated in 6 of the 35 infants receiving piperacillin and flucloxacillin. Four infants treated with pe...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Placzek M,Whitelaw A,Want S,Sahathevan M,Darrell J

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical patterns of adverse reactions to cows' milk were examined in 72 children with cows' milk hypersensitivity. Two main groups were found, according to the time of onset of the adverse reaction--immediate onset, within one hour of milk ingestion and delayed onset, after one hour. Children with immediate onset...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ford RP,Hill DJ,Hosking CS

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperatures of 587 children were taken before and after diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis (DTP) or diphtheria/tetanus (DT) vaccine. Only slight temperature increases were found but these were notably more frequent after plain than adsorbed DTP vaccine preparations and the frequency increased with each successive dose....

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Waight PA,Pollock TM,Miller E,Coleman EM

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zinc content of peripheral blood leucocytes from the cord blood of 63 normal and 20 preterm babies, and of 27 babies with evidence of idiopathic intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) was measured. Leucocyte zinc depletion was present in babies with acute IUGR (IUGR babies compared with controls, mean 47.8 v 51.5 ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Meadows N,Ruse W,Keeling PW,Scopes JW,Thompson RP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety seven teachers of diabetic pupils in Liverpool completed a questionnaire designed to assess their knowledge of diabetes mellitus and the sources from which they had obtained information. The survey aimed to evaluate their understanding and to aid in planning an alternative policy of teacher education. Only 24 t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bradbury AJ,Smith CS

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10 1/2 year old boy presented with raised intracranial pressure and precocious puberty caused by a human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) secreting pineal germinoma. After craniospinal irradiation he improved clinically and his HCG concentration fell to an undetectable value. Two years later he remains well. Pineal ger...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ahmed SR,Shalet SM,Price DA,Pearson D

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism and excretion of paracetamol was studied in an infant of 29 weeks' gestation who was exposed to the drug when his mother ingested 32.5 g 16 hours before delivery. We have confirmed that sulphation is the major pathway and that the mixed function oxidase system is sufficiently active at this gestational ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lederman S,Fysh WJ,Tredger M,Gamsu HR

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gross T cell lymphocytosis developed in an otherwise healthy 5 year old girl and has persisted for nearly 3 years. It is associated with neutropenia and seems to be typical of a rare adult disorder that may be a type of T cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Murray JA,Lilleyman JS

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty six of 142 infants weighing less than 1500 g at birth, who had chest radiographs in the first 5 days of life, developed pulmonary interstitial emphysema (PIE) and in 19 this occurred in the first 24 hours. PIE was seen more frequently in infants weighing less than 1000 g at birth (24 of 57) than in those weighin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hart SM,McNair M,Gamsu HR,Price JF

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The range of thermal control and the thermoneutral range of preterm infants under 30 weeks' gestation was calculated by extrapolation of data from studies on more mature infants. Even assuming some thermoregulatory capacity, the range of control is less than 3 degrees C, the thermoneutral range is less than 0.5 degree...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wheldon AE,Hull D

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital haemolytic anaemia in a 14 year old girl was caused by increased red cell membrane cation permeability. Potassium permeability was unusually sensitive to hydrostatic pressure and treatment with N-ethylmaleimide, factors which activate a specific chloride dependent potassium channel in cell membranes. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Gardiner RM,Barnes ND,Ellory JC

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of neonatal jaundice can be made much easier using simple methods that increase the radiant energy in the range 420 to 480 nm. Two groups of infants being treated for physiological jaundice during a period of 6 months were compared. The first group received treatment from two unmodified phototherapy uni...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Modi N,Keay AJ

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of saliva (4 in 24 hours), collected at monthly intervals for the first 6 months of life in 8 term infants by their mothers, were analysed for cortisol by radioimmunoassay. Values in the first month were more variable, daily mean values were greater, and amplitudes of variation were greater than in subsequent ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Price DA,Close GC,Fielding BA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a laboratory test which is useful in determining whether deafness is due to intrauterine rubella. The study group consisted of 8 deaf patients with proved intrauterine rubella, 12 patients with familial deafness, and 17 controls. Blood was taken at time 0 from all of them. All the deaf children and 5 contr...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hosking CS,Pyman C,Wilkins B

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant feeding methods used by mothers who smoke and by mothers who do not, who delivered in one maternity hospital, were compared to determine if smoking affected breast feeding. Significantly more of the smoking group chose either to bottle feed from delivery or, having been discharged from the hospital breast feedi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lyon AJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously described difference in newborn blood phenylalanine concentrations between those living in urban and non-urban areas in the south west of England has been confirmed and shown to be independent of the type of feed. Several factors including the place of abode, type of feed, birthweight, and the accuracy of...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morris AF,Holton JB,Burman D,Colley JR

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured total work of breathing before and after the inhalation of water, salbutamol, and ipratropium bromide, given as nebulised solutions, in 39 studies on 25 infants with acute, severe bronchiolitis. Twenty minutes after nebulised water, mean work of breathing per minute was increased by 4% and work per li...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Stokes GM,Milner AD,Hodges IG,Henry RL,Elphick MC

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroxine (T4) screening values in infants of low birthweight in relation to birthweight and gestational age are reported. There were 86 healthy infants of low birthweight (group 1), and 29 preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome (group 2). All the group 2 infants and 36% of those in group 1 had a T4 screen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kok JH,Hart G,Endert E,Koppe JG,de Vijlder JJ

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples from the pharynx, stomach, duodenum or jejunum, and faeces were collected on 7 days between 1st and 28th day from neonates weighing less than 1.5 kg at birth who were fed by transpyloric tube. These were cultured on selective and non-selective media, and the results were expressed in a semi-quantitative manner...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dellagrammaticas HD,Duerden BI,Milner RD

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00