abstract：:All 212 neonates undergoing cardiac surgery at this hospital during the 5-year period from 1976 to 1980 inclusive were reviewed. Forty required open heart surgery with 23 (57%) deaths. One hundred and seventy-four neonates underwent non-bypass procedures and could be divided into three groups: group 1 (82 patients) ha...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bove EL,Bull C,Stark J,de Leval M,Macartney FJ,Taylor JF

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to produce dihydroxylated metabolites of vitamin D was studied in a term neonate suffering from severe renal insufficiency. The infant died at age 26 days owing to end-stage renal failure and the necropsy examination showed a single dysplastic kidney weighing 1.5 g. At age 2 weeks the serum levels of the d...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Alkalay A,Mogilner BM,Nissim F,Edelstein S

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes in transcutaneous oxygen tension (TcPO2) during 123 observations of 10 care procedures were compared with the intrinsic variability of the TcPO2 at the time of the procedures. Standard deviations of the TcPO2 were measured by planimetry from continuous recording in undisturbed infants during a 10-minute co...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Danford DA,Miske S,Headley J,Nelson RM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of 12 children with classical maple syrup urine disease is reviewed. All patients presented in the neonatal period at ages varying from 5 to 21 (median 8) days. The time taken to make the diagnosis ranged from 1 day to longer than 9 months (median 7 days). Each survived his initial illness but 3 died later...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Naughten ER,Jenkins J,Francis DE,Leonard JV

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied changes in the birthweight of Asian babies born alive at this hospital between 1968 and 1978. In 1978 Pakistani babies were 139 g heavier but Indian babies only 25 g heavier than 10 years earlier. Contributing to these changes were significantly fewer short mothers and primiparae among Pakistanis, and ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Clarson CL,Barker MJ,Marshall T,Wharton BA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-seven cases of prune belly syndrome in children born between 1948 and 1977 are described. They have been classified into three groups according to the state of the urinary tract in the neonatal period. The results achieved in these cases form the basis of our present management. In group I, the most severely aff...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Woodhouse CR,Ransley PG,Innes-Williams D

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 4-year period the neonatal survival rate for 26 infants weighing 501-750 g was 42% and for 81 infants weighing 751-1000 g it was 61%. All 59 surviving infants have been assessed at follow-up; 39 were at least 2 years old (corrected for prematurity) and data from the remaining 20 were derived from assessment at 1 ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Orgill AA,Astbury J,Bajuk B,Yu VY

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two investigations of paediatric manpower in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland were carried out, each using a different method. The first survey located registrars and senior registrars and checked on their occupational status 3 years later in order to see which ones had been promoted. Loss factors--such as emigrat...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Liberman MM,Bellman MH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of thyroid disease in 134 children, adolescents, and young adults with diabetes mellitus beginning in childhood is described. Clustering of a family history of thyroid disease and the presence of thyrogastric antibodies in some patients supports the concept of familial autoimmunity. In 4 children a diag...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Court S,Parkin JM

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted to see if the discharge weight of preterm infants born at less than or equal to 2000 g could safely be reduced. A study group (21 infants) was discharged 'early' at a mean weight of 2010 g (1890-2190) provided there were no medical problems, weight gain was adequate, temperature control in room a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lefebvre F,Veilleux A,Bard H

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic lipase catalyses the hydrolysis of emulsified triglycerides to form a transparent solution of monoglycerides and fatty acids. Levels of serum pancreatic lipase were measured in neonates known to have cystic fibrosis and compared with levels in control infants. During the first weeks of life infants with cys...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Adriaenssens K,Van Riel L

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data drawn from the National Study of Health and Growth enabled an examination to be made of the attained height, weight for height, and triceps skinfold of children from one and two parent families. Children from one parent families were shorter than children from two parent families; however, once heights had been a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Garman AR,Chinn S,Rona RJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire relating to smoking habits, respiratory symptoms, and health attitude was administered to schoolchildren aged between 11 and 17 throughout a defined geographical area in both 1975 and 1979, with a valid response from 10498 and 12002 young people respectively. Each cohort was almost entirely different. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rawbone RG,Guz A

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically useful criteria were found by studying immunological functions on admission in 15 African children with acute hepatitis (AH) (11 of whom were HBsAg positive) and in 11 children with fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) (8 of whom were HBsAg positive), and by comparing these results with normal controls. Nine of ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mackenjee MK,Kiepiela P,Cooper R,Coovadia HM

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six healthy children, born in the UK, travelled to their parental homeland and developed a severe form of traveller's diarrhoea. This was characterised by rapid loss of weight and chronic diarrhoea. On return to this country, investigation in 5 of them showed an abnormal, small intestinal mucosa. There was a high inci...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hutchins P,Hindocha P,Phillips A,Walker-Smith J

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lactulose/L-rhamnose urinary excretion ratio during continued infusion of milks containing both sugars was used as an index of the permeability of the neonatal bowel to large and small molecules. Healthy infants of gestational age 31-36 weeks proved to have a period of enhanced permeability to lactulose during the...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Beach RC,Menzies IS,Clayden GS,Scopes JW

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information is presented about 19 children, under age 7 years, from 17 families, whose mothers consistently gave fraudulent clinical histories and fabricated signs so causing them needless harmful medical investigations, hospital admissions, and treatment over periods of time ranging from a few months to 4 years. Epis...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Meadow R

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of desamino-D-arginine vasopressin (DDAVP) was investigated in 32 enuretic children in a double-blind clinical study. The 15 children treated with DDAVP showed a significant reduction in the incidence of bed wetting--from 18.7 +/- 6.5 to 6.5 +/- 9.2 wet nights per 30 days. In 6 children bed wetting stoppe...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Aladjem M,Wohl R,Boichis H,Orda S,Lotan D,Freedman S

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Th incidence and severity of posterior subcapsular cataracts were studied in 58 children with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome. Eight (14%) children had cataracts. Visual acuity was normal in all but one child. There was no relationship between total dose or mean daily dose of prednisolone (corrected for body surf...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Brocklebank JT,Harcourt RB,Meadow SR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six children with congenital heart disease are described in whom poor growth was found to be due to small-bowel villous atrophy; none was in heart failure and only one was severely cyanosed. Growth improved in all 6 on a gluten-free diet. Gluten enteropathy may be more common than is realised in children with congenit...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Congdon PJ,Fiddler GI,Littlewood JM,Scott O

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A problem-orientated case record was used for the investigation and management of neonatal jaundice. Investigation of babies requiring phototherapy rarely showed any abnormality but we consider that such routine investigations are worth retaining. There were problems in the interpretation of moderately low plasma conc...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mathew PM,Wharton BA

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anomalies of the bronchial cilia were studied in 5 children with recurrent pulmonary infections. Case 1 had Kartagener's syndrome and an absence of the inner and outer dynein arms in most cilia, although a few shortened and even some normal arms could be seen. Cases 2 and 3 had unilateral bronchiectasis without family...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Corbeel L,Cornillie F,Lauweryns J,Boel M,van den Berghe G

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten intubated neonates (weights 0.90 to 2.58 kg) recovering from respiratory disease had lung mechanics, respiratory patterns, and functional residual capacity measured at 0 cmH2O continuous positive airways pressure and then after application of serially increasing levels of external expiratory resistance. At an exte...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Moomjian AS,Schwartz JG,Shutack JG,Rooklin AR,Shaffer TH,Fox WW

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-six Birmingham children with sickle cell disease were studied prospectively between 1969 and 1979. Thirty-five were homozygotes for HbS (SS), 12 had sickle thalassaemia (S thal), and 23 were double heterozygotes for HbS and C (SC). Twenty-six whose family studies were incomplete were classified as SS or S thal ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mann JR

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative biochemical criteria for lung growth and maturation were compared with the histological appearances in hypoplastic lungs from 20 fetuses and newborn infants. Cases associated with oligohydramnios showed a characteristic series of changes with narrow airways, retardation of epithelial and interstitial grow...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wigglesworth JS,Desai R,Guerrini P

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA was estimated in the lungs of 80 fetuses and newborn infants varying in gestation from 14 weeks to term. In fetuses of appropriate weight for gestational age total lung DNA increased at a constant rate from about 35 mg at 17 weeks' gestation to 480 mg at term. The lungs of immature fetuses were heavier and c...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wigglesworth JS,Desai R

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a non-progressive choreo-athetoid disorder of early onset, present in three families. There were no appreciable abnormalities in pregnancy, during the perinatal period, or in infancy. In each case the family history suggested transmission as an autosomal dominant trait, the gene showing diminished penetran...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sleigh G,Lindenbaum RH

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven children with unilateral proptosis were investigated over a period of 8 1/2 years. Seventeen (63%) of them had local or disseminated malignancy, a higher proportion than in earlier reports. The frequency of inflammatory lesions, particularly ethmoiditis progressing to proptosis, appeared to have decreased...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Oakhill A,Willshaw H,Mann JR

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of breast milk collected from mothers of infants with breast milk jaundice were analysed for 5 beta-pregnane-3 alpha, 20 beta-diol, and other pregnanediols using gas chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry. None was detected in any of the specimens and therefore it is unlikely to be the inhibitory fac...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Murphy JF,Hughes I,Verrier Jones ER,Gaskell S,Pike AW

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a child with primary defect of polymorph bacterial killing associated with systemic lungs erythematosus. We suggest that her autoimmune disease results from chronic bacterial antigen stimulation and propose a hypothetical model linking immunodeficiency with autoimmunity. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Levinsky RJ,Harvey BA,Roberton DM,Wolff OH

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children with Reye's syndrome are described. One child died, the second had mild and transient illness, and the third had recurrent episodes. In all 3 children a muscle biopsy showed pronounced infiltration of the myofibres with fat microdroplets as shown by the oil red O stain and by electron microscopical exam...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shapira Y,Deckelbaum R,Statter M,Tennenbaum A,Aker M,Yarom R

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven children with precocious puberty were treated with cyproterone acetate and their adrenal function studied. In each child the drug caused significant adrenal hypofunction which was secondary to adrenocorticotrophic hormone suppression. None of these children had clinical evidence of adrenal hypofunction and it is...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Savage DC,Swift PG

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid function was studied in 54 low birthweight infants during a 3-week period. Each infant was placed in one of three groups. Group 1 (n = 21), infants who were well and appropriately grown fro gestational age; group 2 (n = 23), infants who were appropriately grown but who had hyaline membrane disease; group 3 (n ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Uhrmann S,Marks KH,Maisels MJ,Kulin HE,Kaplan M,Utiger R

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the accuracy of the interpretation of the chest film in delineating localised abnormalities of ventilation and perfusion, as well as the overall severity of airways obstruction, exercise tolerance, and clinical condition in children with cystic fibrosis. Radiographic findings in various regions of...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Coates AL,Boyce P,Shaw DG,Godfrey S,Mearns M

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National trends in the survival of low birthweight infants for the years 1953 to 1979 were examined. While stillbirth and day 1-28 mortality rates improved steadily throughout this period, day 0 mortality did not start to fall until the mid-1960s and then it improved in all birthweight groups. This suggests that speci...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pharoah PO,Alberman ED

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morbidity pattern, based on hospital admissions for a complete year's cohort of all children born in Sheffield 1975-6, was studied. In many children the diagnosis given on admission had changed by the time they were discharged from hospital. About one-quarter of children under age 6 months were admitted for social...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lloyd B,Pursall E,Emery JL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:36 parents of infants who had died suddenly did not differ in frequency of atopic symptoms, immediate skin tests, IgE, IgE antibody, immunoglobulin G, A, and M, or yeast opsonisation, from 36 matched controls, although atopy was common (about half had atopy in both groups. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Warnasuriya N,Downham MA,Skelton A,Turner MW,Soothill JF

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral diaphragmatic pacing was successfully performed in an 18-month-old child with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (Ondine's curse) as an alternative to long-term mechanical ventilation. Subsequent complications were related more to cor pulmonale and tracheostomy care than to the pacing itself. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Coleman M,Boros SJ,Huseby TL,Brennom WS

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature newborn rabbits, delivered on day 27 of gestation, were treated with tracheal deposition of dry artificial surfactant containing dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine and unsaturated phosphatidylglycerol (7:3), or crude natural surfactant prepared by centrifugation of lung wash from adult rabbits. Before receiving...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morley C,Robertson B,Lachmann B,Nilsson R,Bangham A,Grossmann G,Miller N

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:162 children with infantile spasms were treated with ACTH at the Children's Hospital, Helsinki, and at the Aurora Hospital, Helsinki, during 1960--76. In a large proportion (37%) of the children the treatment caused pronounced side effects, and the mortality was 4.9%. The most common complications were infections: sep...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Riikonen R,Donner M

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00