abstract：:A newborn infant was found to have diffuse esophageal spasm in association with apnea and bradycardia. This association has not been physiologically documented before. The infant's condition improved after the administration of glycopyrrolate, an anticholinergic agent. It is speculated that the association of esophage...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Fontán JP,Heldt GP,Heyman MB,Marin MS,Tooley WH

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We did not find any significant difference between pediatricians and family practitioners with regard to their knowledge of the potentially serious toxicities of the tricyclic antidepressants. One of this group, imipramine, is in widespread use for the treatment of enuresis. A large proportion of the pediatricians (40...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Rauber A,Maroncelli R

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a multicenter collaborative study, M-mode echocardiograms were obtained shortly after birth on 3,559 premature infants with birth weight less than or equal to 1,750 g. Of these infants, 1,496 did not develop a cardiac murmur or other signs of a "hemodynamically significant" patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). E...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Johnson GL,Breart GL,Gewitz MH,Brenner JI,Lang P,Dooley KJ,Ellison RC

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data for this article, as in previous reports, are drawn principally from the Monthly Vital Statistics Report, published by the National Center for Health Statistics. The international data come from the Demographic Yearbook and the quarterly Population and Vital Statistics Report, both published by the Statistical Of...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Wegman ME

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a 7-month-old, terminally ill Gypsy infant was admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit. Treating this child and her extended family was a challenging experience during which numerous culture-related problems were encountered. The Gypsy approach to acute medical care consisted of the presence of a large e...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Wetzel RC,Dean JM,Rogers MC

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was undertaken using a range-gated, pulsed Doppler velocimeter to study flowpressure relationships in the anterior cerebral artery. Serial velocity and pressure studies were performed with each infant serving as his or her own control. The hypothesis tested was that ill preterm infants sustaining s...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Ahmann PA,Dykes FD,Lazzara A,Holt PJ,Giddens DP,Carrigan TA

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity of a mass blood pressure screening program carried out on Dallas high school students who were followed for at least 3 years is reported. Blood pressure results on initial screening in the tenth grade were related to outcome blood pressure status. The frequency of initial blood pressure elevation (systoli...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Fixler DE,Laird WP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants born to women who are asymptomatic hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriers frequently acquire hepatitis B virus infection in infancy. The spectrum of disease in such affected infants includes mild transient acute hepatitis B, chronic active hepatitis with or without cirrhosis, chronic persistent hepatitis...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Delaplane D,Yogev R,Crussi F,Shulman ST

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 720-g premature newborn developed disseminated candidiasis during treatment with systemic antibiotics and total parenteral nutrition through an umbilical arterial catheter. Clinical features were typical for candidal skeletal infection at this age and included warmth and fusiform swelling of the lower extremities to...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Ward RM,Sattler FR,Dalton AS Jr

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was done to assess the necessity of hospital care for poisoning episodes in children less than 5 years old and to evaluate the impact of a regional poison center on the use of emergency rooms for pediatric poisonings. Of the pediatric patients seen in emergency rooms for acute poisonings, 63% did not require t...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Chafee-Bahamon C,Lovejoy FH Jr

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized prospective study of the effect of medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) upon the absorption and retention of major minerals and nutrients, as well as upon 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels, was performed in low-birth-weight infants. Ten infants received a high-calcium and vitamin D-containing formula, which contain...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Huston RK,Reynolds JW,Jensen C,Buist NR

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study was undertaken to determine whether the O2 carrying capacity of newborns born to mothers who smoke can accommodate to carbon monoxide poisoning to compensate for the potential tissue hypoxia induced by CO. From a cohort of 1,222 women and newborn infants the total hemogloblin concentration, hematocri...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bureau MA,Shapcott D,Berthiaume Y,Monette J,Blouin D,Blanchard P,Begin R

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to determine whether iron deficiency, in the absence of anemia (hemoglobin greater than 11.0 g/dL), might produce alterations in behavioral development, four groups of nonanemic infants, 9 to 12 months of age, with varying degrees of iron deficiency were studied. Infants were classified as iron sufficient...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Oski FA,Honig AS,Helu B,Howanitz P

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A considerable portion of pediatric deaths represent disease with risk of recurrence in subsequent family members. Procedures to obtain samples of body fluids and tissues suitable for diagnosis of mendelian and chromosomal disorders are described. These procedures, the "perimortem protocol," are used in studying child...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kronick JB,Scriver CR,Goodyer PR,Kaplan PB

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-three children with acute rheumatic fever were studied using echocardiography to characterize heart involvement in this disease. Among 26 subjects with a first episode of acute rheumatic fever, 18 had a clinical diagnosis of carditis and six had heart failure. Heart failure usually resulted from valvular incomp...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Vardi P,Markiewicz W,Weiss Y,Levi J,Benderly A

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of signs and symptoms as predictors of the presence and severity of esophageal injury was evaluated in 378 children admitted to three pediatric hospitals between 1970 and 1980. The signs and symptoms analyzed included nausea, vomiting, dysphagia, refusal to drink, abdominal pain, increased salivation, oro...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Gaudreault P,Parent M,McGuigan MA,Chicoine L,Lovejoy FH Jr

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verapamil is a slow-channel calcium-blocking agent that has been released recently by the Food and Drug Administration for treatment of cardiac dysrhythmias in all age groups. Its primary action is to slow conduction in the atrioventricular node, thereby abolishing those types of supraventricular tachycardia using the...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Porter CJ,Garson A Jr,Gillette PC

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with cutaneous amebiasis of the vulva and amebic liver abscess is described. Epidemiologic investigations and serologic studies were crucial in establishing the diagnosis. The vulvar amebic ulcers responded dramatically to metronidazole therapy. Cutaneous amebiasis is a rare complication of Entamoeba histoly...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Rimsza ME,Berg RA

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was conducted to assess the applicability of the Denver Prescreening Developmental Questionnaire (DPDQ) in a predominantly black, low-income population in Mobile, Alabama. The effect of an educational intervention designed to increase the accuracy of parental responses to the DPDQ was also assessed...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Rosenbaum MS,Chua-Lim C,Wilhite J,Mankad VN

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience with ten children with superior vena cava obstruction is reported. Five patients had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, two had Hodgkin's disease, two had benign lesions, and one patient was suspected on clinical and radiologic basis to have a lymphoma. The clinical situation at presentation was often critical and req...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Issa PY,Brihi ER,Janin Y,Slim MS

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mother and daughter with Campylobacter jejuni-associated hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) are discussed. The mother was hospitalized with bloody diarrhea and HUS; C jejuni was isolated from her stool. The 2-year-old daughter had been admitted five days prior to her mother with HUS following a three-day prodrome of vo...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Chamovitz BN,Hartstein AI,Alexander SR,Terry AB,Short P,Katon R

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lateral decubitus chest radiograph is a useful procedure in the evaluation of ill-defined pulmonary densities that may stimulate infiltrates. This procedure, although described previously in the radiologic literature, has not been in frequent use. The procedure assists diagnosis in patients who are not able to tak...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Faerber EN,Darling DB,Leonidas JC

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with renal insufficiency was treated with the oral phosphate binder aluminum hydroxide from age 6 to 31 months. The prescribed dose of elemental aluminum varied from 31 to 108 mg/kg/d. Concurrently the patient developed vitamin D-resistant osteomalacia which failed to improve with parathyroidectomy. Encephalop...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Griswold WR,Reznik V,Mendoza SA,Trauner D,Alfrey AC

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coexistence in two sisters, born to related parents, of a corticoresistant nephrotic syndrome, lymphopenia, an immune deficit, short stature, and photophobia is described. The immune deficit is mainly cellular; studies of lymphocyte markers demonstrate a pronounced deficiency of T lymphocytes and Fc-mu receptor-be...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Tabin R,Guignard JP,Gautier E,Dubrit M,Jeannet M,Golaz J,Moretta L

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between family life events and rates of childhood morbidity was studied prospectively in a birth cohort of New Zealand children during the period from ages 1 to 4 years. Family life events were associated with increased risk of medical consultation and hospital attendance for illness of the lower resp...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Beautrais AL,Fergusson DM,Shannon FT

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presentation of parental anxiety that appears excessive in view of the nature of the child's "chief complaint" is a frequent occurrence in pediatric practice. This study reviews 370 sick-patient visits in one pediatric office during a three-month period. Additional questioning in the area of parental anxieties con...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bass LW,Cohen RL

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychosocial problems of children have received increasing attention in the pediatric literature, but it remains unclear to what extent psychiatric services are available and used for the treatment of these problems. This paper examines the utilization of psychiatric services by children over an 18-year period in Monr...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Roghmann KJ,Babigian HM,Goldberg ID,Zastowny TR

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine what conditions are most likely to cause persistent or recurrent pneumonia (PRP) in children, the records of 81 children referred to James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children for evaluation of PRP were reviewed. Twenty patients had an apparent underlying cause that predisposed them to PRP. Of the 61 rema...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Eigen H,Laughlin JJ,Homrighausen J

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the relative competence of pediatricians and general practitioners in managing febrile illnesses in childhood, a prospective study was undertaken of 259 children less than 10 years of age seen consecutively at the emergency room of a children's hospital and a general hospital. Both groups of patients were si...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Leduc DG,Pless IB

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-four patients with adolescent scoliosis underwent cardiac examination and M-mode echocardiography to detect the presence of mitral valve prolapse (MVP). Twenty-one (28%) had echocardiographic evidence of MVP, whereas 18 had auscultatory findings of a nonejection click or late systolic murmur. A subset of 41 pa...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hirschfeld SS,Rudner C,Nash CL Jr,Nussbaum E,Brower EM

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral absorption and elimination of quinidine in pediatric patients was studied. Single oral doses of quinidine sulfate were administered to 13 patients ranging in age from 4 to 22 years of age. Serum quinidine concentration reached a peak within 30 minutes to two hours after drug administration. The serum half-lif...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Szefler SJ,Pieroni DR,Gingell RL,Shen DD

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CO2 chemoreceptor function was assessed during natural sleep and following the administration of 100 mg/kg of chloral hydrate to 26 puppies. With chloral hydrate-induced sleep, there were no significant changes in ventilation or in CO2 chemoreceptor response. The ventilation and CO2 chemoreceptor response of a group o...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lees MH,Olsen GD,McGilliard KL,Newcomb JD,Sunderland CO

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three Laotian refugee children with chronic pulmonary complaints and findings were found to have pulmonary paragonimiasis during a one-year period in Chicago. These patients ranged from 8 to 11 years of age and the diagnosis was delayed five to six months in two children because of the unfamiliarity of American physic...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Burton K,Yogev R,London N,Boyer K,Shulman ST

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large numbers Clostridium difficile were found in the stools of two victims of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). This prompted a study of normal infants in the SIDS age group. Thirty-two infants were studied, using two selective culture techniques and two assays for bacterial products. Thirteen of the normal infant...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Cooperstock MS,Steffen E,Yolken R,Onderdonk A

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven instances of child abuse due to poisoning are reported; two of the children died. Forty-one cases of this form of poisoning are found in the literature. Of the total of 48 children, eight (17%) died as a result of the incident; and one was mentally retarded. The seven different agents described here are alcohol,...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Dine MS,McGovern ME

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newborn with graft-vs-host (GVH) disease following an exchange transfusion was treated by attempting to eradicate the incompatible graft and to reconstitute the child hematologically and immunologically with a bone marrow transplant. The patient was a female term infant (blood group B, Rh+ Coombs test positive) who ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lauer BA,Githens JH,Hayward AR,Conrad PD,Yanagihara RT,Tubergen DG

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven potentially lethal air gun injuries in children are reported. Multiple-pump action air rifles have penetration velocities far in excess of the classic Daisy "BB" guns. However, these lethal weapons are sold to be used by children. Lack of effective regulatory legislation coupled with parental ignorance will cont...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Blocker S,Coln D,Chang JH

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All very low-birth-weight infants live-born to residents of an urban southern Ontario county were studied before (1964 to 1969) and after (1973 to 1977) the introduction of neonatal intensive care. Mortality at hospital discharge decreased from 89.4% to 77.6% among infants whose birth weights were 500 to 999 gm and fr...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Horwood SP,Boyle MH,Torrance GW,Sinclair JC

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporomandibular joint dysfunction with myofascial pain, a well-known clinical disorder in adults, is reported in children. In a series of 400 patients, 40 children less than 16 years of age were seen. Of these pediatric patients, 35% had a reactive depression as primary psychopathology. The multifactorial nature of ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Belfer ML,Kaban LB

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine which warming system more closely approximates a neutral thermal environment, the oxygen consumption of 16 premature babies, weighing less than 1,500 gm each, was measured in a convectively heated incubator and under an open radiant warmer. Both systems were controlled to maintain a skin temperature of 36...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： LeBlanc MH

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00