abstract：AIMS:To describe the developmental progress of very premature babies at the age of 2 years, who were managed in an era where nasal prong continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) was the preferred method for the management of initial respiratory disease. METHODS:Two groups of very premature babies of <32 weeks gestat...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Stack JA,Jalaludin B

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over two decades gene therapy has been actively pursued as a treatment modality for the inherited diseases that affect the paediatric population, however, it is still to make a real impact in the clinic. There are many reasons for this including inadequate technology and a lack of understanding of the biological c...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Anson DS,Fletcher JM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To report infant care practice prevalence for known modifiable sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) risk factors among a generally disadvantaged yet low-SIDS rate population of mothers with Pacific infants. METHODS:The Pacific Islands Families study follows a cohort of Pacific infants born at a large tertiary hospi...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Schluter PJ,Paterson J,Percival T

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group A streptococcus causes the widest range of disease in humans of all bacterial pathogens. Group A streptococcal diseases are more common in children than adults with diseases ranging from pharyngitis and impetigo to invasive infections and the post-streptococcal sequelae--acute rheumatic fever and acute post-...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Steer AC,Danchin MH,Carapetis JR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study compared the personality profiles of children with sighing dyspnoea with healthy children and tested the hypothesis of heightened anxiety scores in sighing dyspnoeic subjects using the Childhood Behavior Check List for Ages 4 to 18 (CBCL/4-18). The pulmonary function tests of these two groups of children...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Wong KS,Huang YS,Huang YH,Chiu CY

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary paediatric practice includes considerable exposure to complex, chronic problems with prominent elements of social and emotional disruption. The psychological burden placed on paediatricians involved in this type of work is poorly recognised, both during training and beyond. Personal supervision for paedia...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： O'Keeffe MJ,Shelton DC

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine the use of high frequency ventilation (HFV) to treat newborn infants in Australia and New Zealand and the associated complications and outcomes. METHODS:Data for all infants receiving HFV were collected from the 28 neonatal intensive care units contributing to the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Net...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Tingay DG,Mills JF,Morley CJ,Pellicano A,Dargaville PA,Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network.

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Problems of inattention and hyperactivity affect one half of individuals with autistic disorder. Care must be taken to ensure that inattention and hyperactivity are not manifestations of other behavioural pathology seen in association with autistic disorder, as this will affect treatment decisions. The prescribing of ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Hazell P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To study the efficacy of treating phimosis with topical steroid, and its long-term outcome and side effects. We also looked into the effect of daily retraction and cleansing of prepuce on preventing recurrence of phimsosis. METHODS:This prospective study comprised 138 boys who were prescribed 0.05% betamethasone o...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Ku WH,Chiu BS,Huen KF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe changes in infant prelinguistic communication skills between 8 and 12 months, and identify factors associated with those skills. METHODS: DESIGN:Parent questionnaire data for a prospective population-based cohort of infants in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. PARTICIPANTS:1911 infants born November...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Reilly S,Eadie P,Bavin EL,Wake M,Prior M,Williams J,Bretherton L,Barrett Y,Ukoumunne OC

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is a hereditary disorder of elastic tissue. The characteristic skin changes are asymptomatic yellow papules around the neck and in body folds giving the skin a characteristic cobblestone appearance. The eyes, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems are also commonly involved. In this...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Sakata S,Su JC,Robertson S,Yin M,Chow C

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the effectiveness of oral baclofen in reducing spasticity and improving function in children with cerebral palsy. METHODS:A double-blind, randomised cross-over pilot study of oral baclofen versus placebo. Assessment tools included the Goal Attainment Scale, Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory, M...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Scheinberg A,Hall K,Lam LT,O'Flaherty S

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Adenoidal hypertrophy (AH) in children is associated with obstructive manifestations like mouth breathing, snoring. Unfortunately, little is known regarding sleep architecture of AH in children. The purpose of this study was therefore undertaken to investigate the polysomnographic variables in children with AH. ME...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Zhang XW,Zhou F,Li Y,Huang ZT,Wang ZL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate parental attitudes to cystic fibrosis (CF) carrier detection of their infant by newborn screening (NBS). METHODS:Data were collected from a postal questionnaire sent to parents of infants identified as CF carriers by NBS in 1996-1997 (inclusive) and 2001 in Victoria, Australia (n = 66). RESULTS:Alm...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Lewis S,Curnow L,Ross M,Massie J

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe the use of media as a sleep aid in adolescents and relate this to their sleep routines and feelings of tiredness. METHODS:A questionnaire about using media as a sleep aid, media presence in bedrooms, time to bed and time out of bed on average weekdays and average weekend days, and questions regarding l...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Eggermont S,Van den Bulck J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most vascular diseases have a tendency to affect both heart and the brain. Intracranial aneurysms are more often found in patients with aorta coarctation than in general population, and aneurysm rupture occurs much earlier in these patients. Here, we report a case of aorta coarctation which was diagnosed with its cere...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Hüdaoğlu O,Kurul S,Cakmakci H,Men S,Yiş U,Dirik E

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is the most common clinical presentation of acute poliovirus infection, occurring in 0.1-1% of infected cases. AFP surveillance has been used world-wide to monitor the control and eradication of circulating wild poliovirus. This study aims to review the significance of all enter...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Kelly H,Brussen KA,Lawrence A,Elliot E,Pearn J,Thorley B

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe the epidemiology, immunisation status and management of children with intussusception in the Northern Territory (NT), 1993-2003. METHODS:Intussusception data were obtained from all NT hospitals using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD 9/10) codes for children under 18 years of age betwee...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Webby RJ,Bines JE,Barnes GL,Tindall H,Krause V,Patel M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the influence of breastfeeding on overweight and obesity in early adolescence. METHODS:Data about breastfeeding duration, BMI of children at 14 years, and confounding variables, were collected from an ongoing longitudinal study of a birth cohort of 7776 children in Brisbane. Prevalence of overweight a...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Shields L,O'Callaghan M,Williams GM,Najman JM,Bor W

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To gain insight into the use of hypoallergenic formula in Australia by analysis of prescribing statistics. METHODS:Statistics on supply of amino acid and extensively hydrolyzed formula were obtained from the Health Insurance Commission web site. The number of prescriptions supplied in 2003 and 2004 per 1000 childr...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Kemp A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To describe demographic characteristics and trends, indications for referral and medical findings in children and young people seen for suspected sexual abuse. METHODS:Retrospective review of consecutive medical records over a 7-year period. RESULTS:A total of 2310 new patients were seen for concerns about sexua...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Kelly P,Koh J,Thompson JM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of medical antireflux treatment, and of an infant mental health consultation (IMHC), on persistent crying in infants and maternal distress. METHODS:Infants under 9 months of age with persistent crying, and their mothers, were enrolled in a randomized placebo-controlled trial. At enrollme...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Jordan B,Heine RG,Meehan M,Catto-Smith AG,Lubitz L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To document whether medically stable infants can be transferred safely from incubators to unheated, open cots at 1500 g. METHODS:Four cohorts were recruited in a stepwise observational trial of transfer from incubators to unheated, open cots. We aimed to transfer the first 15 infants into cots on reaching a...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： West CR,Williams M,Weston PJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aims of our study were to review the Royal Children's Hospital cohort of children having thyroidectomy for thyroid nodules over the last 8 years and to report the changing pattern of thyroid cancer seen in our institution over that time. METHODS:We undertook a retrospective case-note review of all patie...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Hameed R,Zacharin MR

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the outcomes of two models for the management of children admitted to hospital with suspected child abuse: routine early case conferencing versus standard evaluation. METHODS:Between March 2001 and February 2002 professionals from the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria Police and Child...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Smith JA,Efron D

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the frequency and types of adverse reactions to currently available vaccines in very preterm infants. METHODS:Case notes were obtained for very preterm infants < or =30 weeks' gestational age who received their first immunization at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, during 1999-2003. Data were ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Ellison VJ,Davis PG,Doyle LW

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the efficacy and tolerability of the ketogenic diet (KD) in refractory paediatric epilepsy. METHODS:Twenty-six consecutive children were treated with the classical KD from 1996 to 2001. The epilepsy syndromes included symptomatic generalized epilepsy (15), idiopathic generalized epilepsy (4), sympt...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Mackay MT,Bicknell-Royle J,Nation J,Humphrey M,Harvey AS

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crigler-Najjar syndrome type 1 (CNS1) is characterized by a severe unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia from birth. Intensive blue-light phototherapy is the standard method for management; however, it imposes severe restrictions on the child and their family's lifestyle. We describe here the use of a novel sit-up photother...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Nydegger A,Bednarz A,Hardikar W

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary paediatric practices of Australian Aboriginal men and women, in more than 100 Aboriginal Language Groups, comprise a living discipline whose origins predate Western medicine by tens of millennia. The history of paediatrics acknowledges this surviving continuum of the world's oldest child-care practices. B...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Pearn J

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We observed a reduced incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) despite increased survival of extremely premature infants over the last two decades. A different susceptibility pattern to NEC according to gestation has been proposed. We aim to examine the influence of perinatal risk factors for NEC in infa...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Luig M,Lui K,NSW & ACT NICUS Group.

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old Chinese girl with 1-year history of progressive jaundice, steatorrhoea and pruritus was referred. Physical examination showed failure to thrive, marked jaundice, finger clubbing and hepatomegaly. There was laboratory evidence of cholestatic jaundice and autoimmunity, with marked elevation of alkaline phos...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Lee WS,Saw CB,Sarji SA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To quantify and then reduce the number of unnecessary chest X-rays (CXR) being performed on children presenting with asthma. METHODS:A retrospective review of case notes of all children, aged 1-15 years, who presented with asthma and had a CXR performed. The setting was two General Hospitals that see all ch...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Buckmaster A,Boon R

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of hair-thread tourniquet syndrome involving the labia majora of a 14-year-old autistic child. 'Hair-thread tourniquet' refers to the process whereby a thread of hair leads to the ischaemic strangulation of an appendage or other piece of tissue. Uncommonly recognized, this syndrome has gradually gaine...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Golshevsky J,Chuen J,Tung PH

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify and demonstrate necrotizing dermatitis in infancy; an uncommon, puzzling syndrome, in which anecdotal reporting and personal experience indicates that one third of cases may require skin grafting. Much informed discussion about the pathogenesis of this distressing syndrome centres on the role of ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Lui PC,Petersen D,Kimble RM,Raven RJ,Pearn JH

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 14-year-old girl with Marfan syndrome who presented with severe postural headache. Dural ectasia was demonstrated radiologically. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure was immeasurable on formal measurement. Radionucleide cisternography failed to demonstrate a CSF leak. We consider that the underlying fibri...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Milledge JT,Ades LC,Cooper MG,Jaumees A,Onikul E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A term infant was admitted at 6 h of age with seizures related to hyponatraemia. During the last hours of labour the infant's mother had drunk 3 L of water. After delivery the serum sodium was 121 mmol/L in the mother and 126 mmol/L in the infant. Both resolved spontaneously. We discuss this case and the impact of mat...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： West CR,Harding JE

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These guidelines have been developed by the anaphylaxis working party of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy to provide advice for minimizing the risk of food-induced anaphylaxis in schools, preschools and child-care centres. The guidelines outline four steps for the prevention of food anaphyla...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Baumgart K,Brown S,Gold M,Kemp A,Loblay R,Loh R,Mitrou D,Mullins R,Peake J,Ruhno J,Said M,Sinclair J,Smith V,Smith W,Solley G,Soutter V,Tang M,Ziegler J,Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy Anaphyla

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the prevalence of and assess risk factors associated with head lice infections (pediculosis) in children from government primary schools in Victoria, Australia. METHODS:Between May and October 2001, children were selected by clustered random sampling of schools and classes, then examined for he...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Counahan M,Andrews R,Büttner P,Byrnes G,Speare R

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-mortem investigation of sudden death in young people frequently reveals no overt cause for the death. Full investigation is hampered if tissue or blood is not retained for DNA analysis. We report a post mortem molecular diagnosis of long QT syndrome in a 12-year-old boy diagnosed with epilepsy who died suddenly p...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Skinner JR,Chong B,Fawkner M,Webster DR,Hegde M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To confirm the presence of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in New Zealand and establish its prevalence in selected paediatric patient groups. METHODS:Nasopharyngeal swabs were collected in two separate paediatric studies enrolling children clinically diagnosed with either bronchiolitis or pneumonia and tested ...

journal_title：Journal of paediatrics and child health

authors： Werno AM,Anderson TP,Jennings LC,Jackson PM,Murdoch DR

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00