abstract：:Multiple arterial punctures in the neonate can result in iatrogenic arteriovenous fistula formation. In one case, a 3-month-old infant who had been born prematurely was noted to have physical findings consistent with arteriovenous malformation following approximately 90 arterial blood gas determinations over a 13-week...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Ontell SJ,Gauderer MW

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1977, 7% of the 38,855 infants born in Utah were estimated to have required a total of 27,439 special-care hospital days. About half (53%) were mildly ill; their average length of stay was 4.6 days, or 24% of the total hospital-days. Another 20% of the infants had intermediate illness, with a 12-day average stay, o...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Jung AL,Streeter NS

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocytosis, extramedullary erythropoiesis, and increased levels of plasma erythropoietin have been observed in newborn infants of diabetic mothers. Because there is evidence that there is a relationship between increased fetal hemoglobin production and acute erythropoietic expansion, it was considered important to...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bard H,Prosmanne J

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conventional loading dose of phenobarbital for newborn infants with hypoxic-ischemic seizures, 20 mg/kg, often fails to control convulsive activity. To determine the safety of a higher loading dose and to establish the pharmacokinetic parameters of a higher loading dose, ten severely asphyxiated term newborns were...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Donn SM,Grasela TH,Goldstein GW

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In sum, we have offered a few observations about the practice of interdisciplinary research. Now, in addition to our rather specific suggestions, we want to add a few general comments about the interactions of professionals who are actually involved in interdisciplinary research. Collaboration between physicians and p...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Ellison PH,Kopp CB

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of television viewing and obesity in data collected during cycles II and III of the National Health Examination Survey was examined. Cycle II examined 6,965 children aged 6 to 11 years and cycle III examined 6,671 children aged 12 to 17 years. Included in the cycle III sample were 2,153 subjects previo...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Dietz WH Jr,Gortmaker SL

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of furosemide on the course of transient tachypnea of the newborn was evaluated in a controlled, prospective study. Fifty infants with transient tachypnea of the newborn were randomly assigned to control or treatment groups. Those in the treatment group were given furosemide, 2 mg/kg orally, at the time of ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Wiswell TE,Rawlings JS,Smith FR,Goo ED

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A relationship between sudden infant death syndrome and the use of phenothiazine-containing medications is suspected. In order to investigate the influence of phenothiazines upon cardiorespiratory and sleep characteristics, four normal infants (mean age 15.8 weeks) had polygraphic recordings made for one night. The re...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kahn A,Hasaerts D,Blum D

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In February 1981, a measles outbreak occurred in a pediatric practice in DeKalb County, GA. The source case, a 12-year-old boy vaccinated against measles at 11 1/2 months of age, was in the office for one hour on the second day of rash, primarily in a single examining room. On examination, he was noted to be coughing ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bloch AB,Orenstein WA,Ewing WM,Spain WH,Mallison GF,Herrmann KL,Hinman AR

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of 1,144 infants and their families was performed. Smoking and family histories were evaluated with respect to the incidence of lower respiratory disease during the first year of life. It was found that (1) tracheitis and bronchitis occurred significantly more frequently in infants exposed to cigar...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Pedreira FA,Guandolo VL,Feroli EJ,Mella GW,Weiss IP

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoisomerization of native bilirubin to more polar configurational isomers (Z,E-bilirubin) and structural isomers (lumirubin) was studied in 20 premature infants with physiologic jaundice to determine the effect of low-dose (6 microW/cm2/nm) v high-dose (12 microW/cm2/nm) phototherapy. Patients were assigned prospec...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Costarino AT,Ennever JF,Baumgart S,Speck WT,Paul M,Polin RA

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transesophageal atrial pacing was used to initiate and terminate tachycardia in 24 infants (seven female and 17 male, aged 1 to 34 days) with ECG documentation of supraventricular tachycardia. Six infants received no chronic treatment, and chronic oral digoxin prophylaxis was administered to 18 infants in an effort to...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Benson DW Jr,Dunnigan A,Benditt DG,Thompson TR,Narayan A,Boros S

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of two clinically homogeneous subgroups in Tourette syndrome, depending upon the presence or absence of migraine or a family history of migraine, is suggested. Patients with Tourette syndrome who have migraine (n = 18) were found to have a significantly higher prevalence of disorders of arousal--particul...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Barabas G,Matthews WS

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important adaptation of the gastrointestinal tract to the extrauterine environment is its development of a mucosal barrier against the penetration of proteins and protein fragments. To combat the potential danger of invasion across the mucosal barrier the newborn infant must develop within the lumen and on the lumi...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Walker WA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year, 5,000 Americans die and 300,000 are hospitalized as a result of 2.8 million residential fires. Almost all house fires allow time for safe exit if an early warning is given. Smoke detectors are an effective, reliable, and inexpensive method of providing such warning. After an upsurge of deaths related to fir...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Gorman RL,Charney E,Holtzman NA,Roberts KB

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperphenylalaninemia due to a biopterin synthesis defect was detected in an infant with decreased biopterin and increased neopterin levels in plasma and urine. Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) administration normalized plasma phenylalanine levels. CSF biopterin and neurotransmitter metabolite levels were normal and with the...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hoganson G,Berlow S,Kaufman S,Milstien S,Schuett V,Matalon R,Naylor E,Seifert W

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Munchausen's syndrome was initially described in 1951. It has become increasingly recognized since that time. Recently, Munchausen's syndrome by proxy or Polle syndrome has been described. In this disease entity, a parent causes a factitious disease in a child. The disease may require extensive medical testing and the...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Clark GD,Key JD,Rutherford P,Bithoney WG

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral state, heart rate, and respiration were monitored during heelstick procedures in samples of healthy, term neonates (N = 48) and preterm neonates treated in minimal care (N = 48) and intensive care (N = 48) nurseries. The treated infants who were given pacifiers spent significantly less time fussing and cryi...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Field T,Goldson E

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis is, that necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) of the neonate occurs by the coincidence of two of three pathologic events: (1) intestinal ischemia, (2) colonization by pathogenic bacteria, and (3) excess protein substrate in the intestinal lumen. NEC is more likely to appear following quantitative extremes, i...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kosloske AM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many physicians and parents consider immunizations routine; as a result, they fail to discuss this important aspect of health care. Parents should be educated about each vaccine and the role it plays in the well-being of their child. To ensure that parents will be able to give informed consent to have their child immu...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Fulginiti VA

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The place of causal inference in clinical practice is considered. One function relates to the validation of existing knowledge, as in the evaluation of the medical literature, and is exemplified by the process of editorial selection. A second function relates to the validation of potential knowledge, as in the testing...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Susser M

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1967 the American Academy of Pediatrics published standards for periodic health supervision visits. In 1972 and 1975, in response to changes in child health needs, the guidelines were revised. The current AAP periodicity guidelines, adopted in 1981, provide for reasonable care and meet the minimum requirements for ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Strain JE

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcosinemia has been detected by routine screening of urine for metabolic and transport disorders in Massachusetts. Three infants who had sarcosinemia were detected through the neonatal urine specimen, an observed incidence of 1:350,000. A fourth child had sarcosinemia detected through family screening after his brot...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Levy HL,Coulombe JT,Benjamin R

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioavailability and absorption pattern of theophylline from a slow-release theophylline sprinkle preparation were investigated in 12 asthmatic children both in fasting conditions and after a standardized meal. Theophylline given intravenously was used as a reference. Theophylline from the slow-release theophylline...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Pedersen S,Møller-Petersen J

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial nasal obstruction in preterm infants increases the airway resistance. In spite of this, nasal feeding tubes are often used, if only because oral tubes are difficult to secure. A palatal appliance has been devised that maintains the position of oroenteric feeding tube(s) and is not associated with local complic...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： van Someren V,Linnett SJ,Stothers JK,Sullivan PG

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal hyperviscosity syndrome is known to affect multiple organ systems. The effects of polycythemic hyperviscosity on cutaneous blood flow and transcutaneous PO2 and PCO2 were compared in ten term infants prior to and following correction of the hyperviscous state. Cutaneous blood flow was measured by the heat cle...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Waffarn F,Tolle CD,Huxtable RF

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cognitive functioning of 20 children and adolescents with end-stage renal disease was assessed 1 to 3 weeks prior to the onset of hemodialysis, and at 1 month and 1 year after successful kidney transplantation, and results were compared with those of a matched control group. A battery of intelligence, achievement,...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Fennell RS 3rd,Rasbury WC,Fennell EB,Morris MK

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An overview and update are offered on difficulties experienced by children with monaural sensorineural deafness. It is the general consensus that children with unilateral hearing loss experience few, if any, communication and/or educational problems. The medical and educational status of a group (N = 60) of children w...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bess FH,Tharpe AM

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fatal myocardial infarction in a 22-year-old man with hemophilia A and a factor VIII inhibitor is described. The catastrophic event occurred while the patient was receiving high doses of unactivated prothrombin complex concentrates. Autopsy examination revealed myocardial hemorrhage with no evidence of coronary arte...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Sullivan DW,Purdy LJ,Billingham M,Glader BE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 3-month period, 1,062 mother-infant pairs were studied for infections following internal fetal monitoring during labor. Six infants (0.56%) developed septic scalp dermatitis at the site of the spiral electrode application. Factors associated with septic scalp dermatitis included the number of vaginal examinat...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Wagener MM,Rycheck RR,Yee RB,McVay JF,Buffenmyer CL,Harger JH

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual training continues to be used as a remediation technique for reading disabilities despite consistent evidence that it does not provide effective treatment. A review of the ophthalmologic, optometric, and psychological literature relating to the assumption that a relationship exists between reading failure and p...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Metzger RL,Werner DB

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee ( ACIP ) has devised noninvasive, historical criteria for determining individuals who are susceptible to measles. These criteria, which involve proof of vaccination, are incorporated into school entrance regulations and are used to indicate people who require vaccination d...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Scott RM,Butler AB,Schydlower M,Rawlings P

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pilot study investigated the neurologic, cognitive, and behavioral consequences of nonfatal infancy apnea. Fifteen formerly apneic, monitored children were compared with age-similar siblings and with age-sex matched playmates. Significant impairment in gross motor development and mild cognitive deficiencies were obs...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Deykin E,Bauman ML,Kelly DH,Hsieh CC,Shannon D

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal muscle deficiency, urinary tract abnormalities, and cryptorchidism are the three major features of the prune-belly syndrome, also referred to as triad syndrome or Eagle-Barrett syndrome. The etiology is unclear and the pathogenesis a subject of continuing debate. Clinical and pathologic experience with seven...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Moerman P,Fryns JP,Goddeeris P,Lauweryns JM

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with homozygous sickle cell anemia is the youngest known to have died from acute splenic sequestration crisis. A cord blood screening program might have prevented this infant's death. ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Walterspiel JN,Rutledge JC,Bartlett BL

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unclear why children of adolescent mothers experience more developmental problems than children of adult mothers. There has been minimal systematic investigation of whether there is a relationship between the young age of the mother and her mothering behaviors. Our data fail to demonstrate any relationship betwe...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： McAnarney ER,Lawrence RA,Aten MJ,Iker HP

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four evaluations of ambulatory pediatric tasks were used for quality assurance in eight pediatric group practices situated in two teaching hospitals and six related health centers. The evaluations used criteria incorporating branching logic to judge the quality of care revealed in data abstracted from medical records....

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Palmer RH,Strain R,Maurer JV,Thompson MS

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the outbreaks of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis occurring in maternity hospitals of Paris and suburbs in 1979-1980, it has been possible to examine by light and electron microscopy gut specimens from ten newborns with this illness. Coronavirus-like particles, enclosed in intracytoplasmic vesicles of damaged ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Rousset S,Moscovici O,Lebon P,Barbet JP,Helardot P,Macé B,Bargy F,Le Tan Vinh,Chany C

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The improved survival of very low-birth-weight infants, who require prolonged hospitalization and many invasive procedures, increases the risks for nosocomial illnesses, such as disseminated fungal infections. In a 2-year period, systemic fungal infections were clinically diagnosed in ten infants. This necessitated th...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Baley JE,Kliegman RM,Fanaroff AA

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A program that calculates a value of clearance for an individual patient prior to reaching steady state in the early stages of aminophylline therapy is presented. The program is written for the Texas Instruments TI-59 programmable calculator and may be used with or without the PC-100C printer. The program can provide ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Mitsuoka JC,Fleck RJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00