abstract：:The efficacy and safety of flunisolide aerosol were studied in 46 steroid-independent children with asthma inadequately controlled by nonsteroid drugs. This was a double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel study lasting eight weeks. Patients were randomly assigned either flunisolide by inhalation, 0.5 mg twice a day, ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Meltzer EO,Kemp JP,Orgel HA,Izu AE

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship among duration and frequency of breast-feeding, age, level of education, and parity on postpartum amenorrhea were investigated retrospectively in selected married Nigerian women attending the two local maternity centers in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, between January and May 1980. The mean values for duration an...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Ojofeitimi EO

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the absence of a clear-cut rationale for their use, corticosteroids are widely employed in the treatment of dengue shock syndrome. Previous comparative therapeutic trials have yielded contradictory results. Resolution of this therapeutic controversy has been attempted with a double-blind evaluation of the clin...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Sumarmo,Talogo W,Asrin A,Isnuhandojo B,Sahudi A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined conceptions of illness in young adolescents. A group of 77 urban junior high school students aged 11 to 15 years were asked for their definitions of illness. Themes occurring in definitions of illness were identified and coded according to a previously developed coding scheme. Evidence in support o...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Millstein SG,Adler NE,Irwin CE Jr

更新日期：1981-12-01 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：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether hospitalized pediatric patients may be inadvertently exposed to excessive amounts of commercial television, a survey of the quantity and quality of daytime television viewing by patients was conducted at the Winnipeg Children's Centre. Television viewing patterns were recorded for 845 patients, ea...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Guttentag DN,Albritton WL,Kettner RB

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of otitis media with effusion (serous otitis media, secretory otitis media) detected after conventional antibiotic treatment of acute otitis media is approximately 50%. The relationship between pharmacologic compliance and the frequency of otitis media with effusion was studied. A Micrococcus lutea bioin...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Schwartz RH,Rodriquez WJ,Grundfast KM

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1978 in the United States, 38 children aged 5 years or younger were killed when they fell from the passenger compartments of moving motor vehicles not involved in crashes. Twenty-eight children (74%) were boys. Eighteen (47%) were 2 years old; 35 (92%) were aged 1 to 3 years. Thirty-six children fell out through do...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Williams AF

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperthermia as a human teratogen has been implicated as one cause for neurulation defects. To determine whether there is an association between early maternal hyperthermia (20 to 28 days' gestation) and isolated occipital encephalocele, record reviews were conducted for the period 1969 through 1979 in three major med...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Fisher NL,Smith DW

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary interstitial emphysema is a condition that has become a significant problem chiefly as a complication of mechanical ventilation of the newborn. In its severe forms, it may compromise ventilation and restrict pulmonary blood flow to the degree that it becomes a significant cause of mortality. When its occurre...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Levine DH,Trump DS,Waterkotte G

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cariogenicity of seven commonly prescribed liquid medications was studied. Sucrose content of the medications ranged from 0 to 70 gm/100 ml. Initial pH and buffering capacity were measured and found to vary widely among the medications. Intraoral microbial plaque pH changes were determined at intervals for 30 minutes ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Feigal RJ,Jensen ME,Mensing CA

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-nine near miss for sudden infant death syndrome and thirty normal infants between the ages of 3 weeks and 6 months were monitored polygraphically for 24 hours. The distribution of sleep and abnormal respiratory events were analyzed for both groups. On the basis of mixed and obstructive apnea, 12-hour nocturnal ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Guilleminault C,Ariagno R,Korobkin R,Coons S,Owen-Boeddiker M,Baldwin R

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate and blood pressure changes following 0.5% tropicamide and 2.5% phenylephrine hydrochloride were evaluated in seven ill preterm infants (birth weight, 910 to 2,060 gm; gestational age, 26 to 36 weeks) during the first day of life. Each infant was monitored continuously for 30 minutes before and for 75 minute...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lees BJ,Cabal LA

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 12-month period 80 children greater than 3 months of age seen at an emergency room with acute fevers greater than or equal to 39.7 C (103.5 F) and no localizing signs of infection were studied using blood and buffy coat cultures to isolate bacteria and viruses. Bacteremia was identified in three children (3.8...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Murray DL,Zonana J,Seidel JS,Yoshimori RN,Imagawa DT,St Geme JW Jr

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular (LV) performance was performed in 41 children during and following anthracycline chemotherapy. Prior to treatment LV function was normal in all patients; LV shortening fraction was 35.2 +/- 0.7% and percent of predicted velocity of circumferential fiber shortening was 1...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lewis AB,Crouse VL,Evans W,Takahashi M,Siegel SE

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical vibration encountered in land transports was assessed objectively through measurement of vertical acceleration experienced by neonates in transit. Vibration was most predominant in the hazardous low frequency range of 3 to 18 Hz. The peak acceleration amplitudes (intermittent thrusts) ranged from 5 to 13 m/...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Shenai JP,Johnson GE,Varney RV

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult patients with long-standing hypertension have been reported to experience an impairment in renal function when treatment with potent vasodilating agents is initiated. To document that this sequence may occur in children as well, we report the case of a 4-year-old boy with renal disease in whom reduction of blood...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Green TP,Nevins TE,Houser MT,Sibley R,Fish AJ,Sinaiko AR

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the effects of muscle relaxation on the critically ill ventilated neonate, pancuronium bromide was administered for a 12-hour period to ten low-birth-weight neonates (960 to 2,000 gm) of 26 to 34 weeks gestation, all whom required mechanical ventilation and were studied within 48 hours of birth (six to 39 ho...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Finer NN,Tomney PM

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Questionnaires were used to survey 1,435 parents and 446 physicians in order to determine and compare attitudes and beliefs about enuresis. Although both groups thought that bed-wetting is a maturational problem, the parent group thought emotional causes were important and were less likely to accept small bladder size...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Shelov SP,Gundy J,Weiss JC,McIntire MS,Olness K,Staub HP,Jones DJ,Haque M,Ellerstein NS,Heagarty MC,Starfield B

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature male infants have a higher incidence of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) than female infants (male/female = 1.7:1.) With the demonstration that antenatal use of betamethasone significantly reduces the incidence of RDS, a proportional reduction or possibly a complete elimination of the discrepancy between ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Papageorgiou AN,Colle E,Farri-Kostopoulos E,Gelfand MM

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol following intravenous and oral administration were studied in 14 infants with Haemophilus influenzae meningitis. Following five days of treatment with intravenous chloramphenicol (100 mg/kg/day every six hours), oral chloramphenicol was substituted at the same dose. Multiple ser...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Yogev R,Kolling WM,Williams T

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus 71 (E-71) infection was first reported in 19745 in the United States; subsequent outbreaks were reported in worldwide distribution. In the summer of 1977, we identified 12 patients, mostly children, with E-71 infection. The striking feature of this outbreak is the occurrence of two cases with polio-like pa...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Chonmaitree T,Menegus MA,Schervish-Swierkosz EM,Schwalenstocker E

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of chloride deficiency in the generation of hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis with elevated plasma renin activity and plasma aldosterone levels, normal blood pressure, and a renal concentrating defect was studied in six infants given a soy formula that was deficient in chloride. A deceleration in linear growth,...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Roy S 3rd,Arant BS Jr

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adjustment of children with cystic fibrosis as rated by parents and teachers was compared to that of physically healthy siblings, normal children, and other chronically ill children. The findings indicated that children with cystic fibrosis achieved an age-adequate level of adjustment at home and school. Adjustmen...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Drotar D,Doershuk CF,Stern RC,Boat TF,Boyer W,Matthews L

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Withdrawal of steroid medications from patients who have been receiving them for management of chronic disease carries the risk of certain serious complications. An understanding of adrenal physiology, coupled with a rational plan for evaluating the individual patient, when necessary, and for protecting against certai...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Chamberlin P,Meyer WJ 3rd

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is presented in which three of four siblings had truncus arteriosus and other anomalies compatible with the third and fourth pharyngeal pouch syndrome (DiGeorge syndrome). The syndrome is uncommon and most of the reported cases have been solitary. In this family an autosomal recessive inheritance is possible....

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Raatikka M,Rapola J,Tuuteri L,Louhimo I,Savilahti E

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with idiopathic Fanconi syndrome and glucose intolerance were studied from a metabolic perspective. They had fasting hyperglycemia, massive glucosuria, insulinopenia, ketosis, and elevated serum free fatty acids. There was a markedly blunted insulin secretory response to glucagon, tolbutamide, glucose, an...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Chesney RW,Kaplan BS,Teitel D,Colle E,McInnes RR,Goldman H,Scriver CR

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytogenetic test was developed to enable the diagnostic differentiation between Fanconi anemia and the group of disorders classified as "idiopathic" aplastic anemia. The method is based on the effect of the bifunctional alkylating agent mitomycin C (MMC) on chromosomes of peripheral lymphocytes in culture 92 to 96 h...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Cervenka J,Arthur D,Yasis C

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kwashiorkor, with typical edema and skin rash is occasionally seen in affluent countries as a result of severe protein restriction. Treatment is with a lactose-free formula after rehydration and sometimes after a period of parenteral alimentation. Complications of therapy included: diarrhea, congestive heart failure, ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Chase HP,Kumar V,Caldwell RT,O'Brien D

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical to providing cancer therapy to children in rural areas is finding dependable sources of therapy near the patients' homes. In this study, comparison was made of 668 visits by 24 patients to nearby private practitioners, who carried out 70% of the therapy, with 712 visits by 22 other patients for whom all care ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kisker CT,Strayer F,Wong K,Clarke W,Strauss R,Tannous R,Janco R,Spevak J

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection occurred in the summer of 1978 in a boys' camp in northern Wisconsin and affected 139 of 196 persons (71%); 115 (59%) had laboratory evidence of infection. In 77% of the cases, onset of disease occurred within three weeks after arrival at camp, in contrast to the usually ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Broome CV,LaVenture M,Kaye HS,Davis AT,White H,Plikaytis BD,Fraser DW

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2) decreases during sleep in children with chronic bronchial asthma was investigated. The relationship between decreases in sleep SaO2 and airflow obstruction and ventilatory drives, as characterized by ventilatory and inspiratory muscle activity responses to hypoxia...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Smith TF,Hudgel DW

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infant rumination syndrome has not been previously reported in a neonatal intensive care setting. We recently managed three infants in our newborn intensive care unit who developed rumination following chronic courses in the unit. The events leading to this condition in each infant are described, as well as the su...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Sheagren TG,Mangurten HH,Brea F,Lutostanski S

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of total blood bilirubin, albumin-bound bilirubin, and the reserve and total bilirubin binding capacities of 35 neonatal blood samples (28 patients) were determined by automated front-face fluorometry ((hematofluorometer). These values were compared to results of diazo determinations, Sephadex gel f...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Cashore WJ,Oh W,Blumberg WE,Eisinger J,Lamola AA

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the possible association of chronic otitis media and school learning problems, past and current middle ear status in 53 learning-disabled (LD) children was compared to that of 56 control children without learning problems. A history of recurrent otitis media was obtained in 23% of the LD children and in...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bennett FC,Ruuska SH,Sherman R

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to determine whether iron-fortified infant formulas produced gastrointestinal symptoms in infants, we fed two similar formulas, one with and one without iron fortification, to a group of 93 term infants upon discharge from the nursery on the third day of life. Infants were fed the formulas for a period o...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors：

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laparoscopy has been performed in 120 infants and children for a variety of indications including chronic abdominal pain, debatable appendicitis, liver biopsy, biliary atresia, and abdominal trauma. A specific diagnosis was made in 71% of patients and 59% were spared laparotomy. There were one complication and four er...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Leape LL,Ramenofsky ML

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assessments of 133 parents' (74 families) feelings, perceptions, reactions to stresses, and satisfactions during a period of electronic home monitoring are reported. Data were collected during structured interviews by students in a graduate social work program. Although extreme anxiety was prevalent initially, on...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Cain LP,Kelly DH,Shannon DC

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective, randomized, crossover trial was conducted comparing therapy with rifampin to therapy with ampicillin in eradicating Haemophilus influenzae type b carriage. Twenty-eight carriers were identified in a day care center following exposure to a patient with H influenzae type b meningitis; 26 children were ran...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Gessert C,Granoff DM,Gilsdorf J

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatricians should be familiar with the principles of antenatal diagnosis and how they should be applied to specific problems in genetic counseling, diagnosis, and management in clinical practice. At the same time, pediatricians should be familiar with the resources for the new technology available to them in their ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors：

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00