abstract：:All physicians who care for children require a knowledge of normal growth and development in order to detect and interpret abnormalities. Yet traditional instruction tends to focus on the ill child and rarely provides students the opportunity to follow up the cases of healthy children over a prolonged period of time. ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Stillman PL,Ruggill JS,Sabers D

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To find out whether there is any relationship between the ventilatory response to hypoxia and the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), we studied the effects of mild induced hypoxia (PIO2, 120 mm Hg = 17% oxygen) in 16 infants aged 2 weeks to 6 months. Eight had recurrent apneic spells (apnea group) (five had aborted ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Brady JP,Ariagno RL,Watts JL,Goldman SL,Dumpit FM

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin and acetaminophen have excellent and essentially similar antipyretic activity. For the child, lowering of temperature will be indicated for excessively high temperature and when there is a history of febrile seizures. Specific clinical contraindications will often dictate the selection of one drug over the oth...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lovejoy FH Jr

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and congenital deafness comprise the autosomal recessive Usher syndrome. The four affected siblings discussed here have audiometric curves characteristic of the 10% of patients with the syndrome who are not profoundly deaf. The oldest already has RP. Even though the younger three siblings hav...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Davenport SL,O'Nuallain S,Omenn GS,Wilkus RJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with periobital cellulitis, one of whom also had buccal cellulitis, had violaceous discoloration of the skin. Blood cultures from both patients yielded Streptococcus pneumoniae. Therefore, pneumococci should be considered, in addition to Haemophilus influenzae, as possible causes of cellulitis with violac...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Thirumoorthi MC,Asmar BI,Dajani AS

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of continuous, around-the-clock sustained-release (S-R) theophylline therapy, adjusted to approximate serum or plasma steady state theophylline concentrations (Tc) of 15 microgram/ml three hours following the last dose, was assessed in 18 children suffering from moderately severe chronic asthma. Two of th...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bell T,Bigley J

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacter aerogenes bacteremia associated with the infusion of contaminated admixed intravenous (IV) fluid occurred in seven patients in a pediatric hospital over a five-day period. Clinical illness was characterized by spiking fever in all patients. The temporal clustering of cases allowed for rapid recognition of...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Edwards KE,Allen JR,Miller MJ,Yogev R,Hoffman PC,Klotz R,Marubio S,Burkholder E,Williams T,Davis AT

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of beclomethasone, dipropionate aerosol (DBA) (400 microgram/day) on clinical course, pulmonary function, and pituitary-adrenal function was studied in 34 steroid-dependent asthmatic children. Asthma severity was assessed by daily symptom and medication scores, peak flow measured three times a day, and wee...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kershnar H,Klein R,Waldman D,Berger W,Rachelefsky G,Katz R,Siegel S

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assay of ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) activity in multiple small bits of liver (approximately 5 mg) that were obtained from a single surgical biopsy in a patient with OTC deficiency revealed a 10- to 40-fold variation in enzyme activity. Similar studies with control autopsy liver specimens varied 2.5-fold at most....

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Glasgow AM,Kraegel JH,Schulman JD

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaginal cultures from 100 healthy girls, 2 months to 15 years of age, were examined for the presence of normal and potentially pathogenic microorganisms. Corynebacterium vaginale, yeast species, and genital mycoplasmas were isolated from vaginal cultures from 13.5 %, 28%, and 28% of the girls examined, respectively. C...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hammerschlag MR,Alpert S,Rosner I,Thurston P,Semine D,McComb D,McCormack WM

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with a poorly differentiated lymphoma developed varicella while being treated with maintenance chemotherapeutic agents. He received a transfusion of nonirradiated leukocytes from 1 unit of whole blood donated by a healthy volunteer who had recently recovered from varicella. The clinical course of varicella was...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Betzhold J,Hong R

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simultaneous serum concentrations of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) and 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP) were compared with urinary 17-ketosteroid (17-KS) and pregnanetriol (PT) excretion during therapy in 18 prepubertal patients with the 21-hydroxylase deficiency form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Golden MP,Lippe BM,Kaplan SA,Lavin N,Slavin J

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a test of Feingold's hypothesis that food additives trigger the hyperactive response, 26 hyperactive children were randomly assigned to treatment conditions whereby they were given active or placebo medications in combination with challenge cookies with artificial food colors or control cookies without the additive...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Williams JI,Cram DM,Tausig FT,Webster E

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interval from the beginning of the Q wave to the origin of the T wave (Q-oTc interval) and total and ionized serum calcium levels were measured in 27 full-term and 77 premature infants. The correlation between Q-oTc and total and ionized calcium levels was significant in both full-term and normal premature infants...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Giacoia GP,Wagner HR

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old boy with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) received four granulocyte transfusions from unrelated HLA-matched donors as part of therapy for a hepatic abscess. Survival studies of transfused granulocytes using the endotoxin-stimulated nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) test on two occasions demonstrated 19.6% an...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Chusid MJ,Tomasulo PA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample of 90 children with Down's syndrome were measured for recumbent length and weight from birth to age 36 months at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. At birth, means for both length and weight were reduced by about 0.5 SDs from the control group means. By 36 months, mean recumbent length was grea...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Cronk CE

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-year-old boy with congestive heart failure died in five months in spite of comprehensive medical treatment. Autopsy showed patchy areas of endocardial fibroelastosis of the left ventricle. The sister of this patient had followed a similar course at 13 years of age with death within six months of the onset of cong...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Singh A,Doyle EF,Danilowicz DA,Finegold MJ

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts to correlate developmental outcome with medical complications affecting the fetus and infant have focused on the prenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods. The time beyond the newborn stage has not been explored in detail. The aim of this study was to relate events occurring during the gestational and neon...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Littman B,Parmelee AH Jr

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of seven years of epidemiologic surveillance for Staphylococcus aureus in a newborn nursery are presented as a follow-up of a study from this same institution published in 1969. Surveillance of the previous study included years 1961 through 1968. A continued rise in S. aureus colonization rates among newborns ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hargiss C,Larson E

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synergy, determined by isobolograms constructed from the minimal inhibitory concentrations of combinations of ampicillin and chloramphenicol, was observed against six of 13 ampicillin-susceptible Haemophilus influenzae type b isolates and against five of eight ampicillin-resistant strains by using a small inoculum of ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Feldman WE

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal transplantation was carried out in 21 children ages 1 to 5 years. Eighteen received grafts from a living, related donor (LRD). Four children died, one following rejection, and three because of infection. Five children lost their initial grafts and two have received new transplants. Cumulative patient survival tw...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hodson EM,Najarian JS,Kjellstrand CM,Simmons RL,Mauer SM

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred five patients with Kawasaki disease and 500 normal controls were HLA-typed, using a standard microcytotoxicity test of tissue typing. HLA-BW22 was more common in patients with Kawasaki disease than in normal controls (25.4% instead of 11.8%, corrected P less than .0005). Among subtypes of HLA-BW22 antigen,...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kato S,Kimura M,Tsuji K,Kusakawa S,Asai T,Juji T,Kawasaki T

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four-hour metabolic balance studies were performed in ten jaundiced preterm infants, five light-treated (phototherapy) and five controls. Each of the light-treated infants was studied twice, once during phototherapy (period I) and once 48 hours after phototherapy (period II). Control infants were similarly stud...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Wu PY,Moosa A

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system manifestations in association with adenovirus infections have rarely been documented. In this report, four children, ages 4, 5, 6, and 10 years, with adenoviral meningoencephalitis are described. Adenoviruses were recovered from CSF specimens in all four patients. ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kelsey DS

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutropenia developed in three pediatric patients treated intravenously with nafcillin. This association has not been, to our knowledge, previously reported in children. One of the patients is the youngest reported who had neutropenia associated with any penicillin; another patient had a prolonged recovery. The litera...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Greene GR,Cohen E

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of pulsus paradoxus (PP) in 13 episodes of status asthmaticus in 12 children, ages 13 months to 15 years, was compared sequentially to a clinical score, peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR), heart rate, arterialized capillary pH, carbon dioxide pressure (PCO2), and the ratio of inspired oxygen to oxygen press...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Galant SP,Groncy CE,Shaw KC

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two pediatric patients had reflex sympathetic dystrophy, which has been well described in adults but is rarely recognized in children. The syndrome consists of continuous pain, hyperesthesia, and autonomic symptoms occurring in an extremity, usually following trauma. The various types of presentation, differential dia...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Fermaglich DR

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies from our laboratory have shown that iron is better absorbed from human milk than from cow milk and that human milk can provide insufficient iron for infants during their first year. We compared iron availability from human milk with that from other formulas and determined the factors responsible for its superi...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： McMillan JA,Oski FA,Lourie G,Tomarelli RM,Landaw SA

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide variety of artifacts may be found when monitoring the ECG in a neonatal intensive care unit. Many of the artifacts resemble arrhythmias, and unless they are recognized as artifacts they may lead to serious errors of diagnosis and therapy. Many of the artifacts are caused by patient movement such as seizures, tr...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Stanger P,Lister G,Silverman NH,Hoffman JI

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients had prolonged retention of small round foreign bodies in the stomach. Both patients had a history of a pyloromyotomy. Radiographic examination revealed a prepyloric web in one patient and a deformed pylorus in the other. These findings were confirmed by surgery. ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Mandell GA,Rosenberg HK,Schnaufer L

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The confusing area of cow's milk intolerance is explored in an attempt to define the various mechanisms whereby milk affects gastrointestinal function, resulting in clinical symptoms (diarrhea, vomiting, gastrointestinal bleeding, etc.). The adverse reaction of infants to cow's milk ingestion may relate to lactose int...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Eastham EJ,Walker WA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The findings reported in this article are based on a nationwide survey of the attitudes and practices of pediatric surgeons and pediatricians with respect to some of the difficult ethical choices confronting them in medical practice. Four hundred fifty-seven physicians completed a questionnaire in the spring of 1975 i...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Shaw A,Randolph JG,Manard B

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coma, tetany, dehydration, hypotension, tachycardia, and hyperpyrexia developed in a 2 1/2-year-old girl following two hypertonic phosphate pediatric enemas. She had marked hyperphosphatemia, hypocalcemia, hypernatremia, and acidosis. Hypocalcemia due to hyperphosphatemia can explain all of these findings. Calculation...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Sotos JF,Cutler EA,Finkel MA,Doody D

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 38-day-old infant had fever, jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, and a hemolytic anemia. A peripheral blood smear demonstrated intraerythrocytic malarial parasites identified as Plasmodium vivax. Maternal and infant sera contained antibodies to this species. A directed history revealed the mother had suffered several febr...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Thompson D,Pegelow C,Underman A,Powars D

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of "trained mother" interviews early in the medical school curriculum. As an adjunct to a first-year course that teaches interviewing techniques, half of the students were exposed to an interview with one of three trained mothers early in the course. This ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Stillman PL,Sabers DL,Redfield DL

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial blood gases and regional lung function, measured with a 133xenon technique, were used to evalute the physiological defects and follow the natural history of 16 infants with lobar hyperinflation ("emphysema"). Hypoxemia was due to V/Q inequality at rest. Worsening of hypoxemia (mean Pao2 delta--26 mm Hg) with ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Shannon DC,Todres ID,Moylan FM

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bilirubin titration point--the lowest bilirubin concentration at which loosely bound bilirubin could be demonstrated by Sephadex gel filtration--was determined in samples collected before, during, and on completion of 17 exchange transfusions as well as in the discarded and donor blood. The bilirubin titration poi...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Valaes T,Hyte M

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 198 children were followed from age 2 through first grade to see how consistent their behavior was across time and across settings. Measures of child behavior in the home were obtained when the children were ages 2, 4, and 5. Classroom behavior was ascertained when the children were in nursery school, kinde...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Chamberlin RW

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group B streptococcal colonization of normal newborn infants increased from 22.5% within 20 hours of birth to 65.4% at the time of hospital discharge (P less than .001). In contrast, colonization in mothers did not change significantly between the time of admission to labor and delivery (27.7%) and the time of dischar...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Paredes A,Wong P,Mason EO Jr,Taber LH,Barrett FF

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six preterm, sick, low-birth-weight neonates were given either total or partial parenteral nutrition. The patients were divided into three groups according to their birth weights: group A -less than 1,000 gm, 12 patients: group B--between 1,000 and 1,500 gm, 15 patients: group C--more than 1,500 gm, 9 patients....

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Meng HC,Stahlman MT,Otten A,Dolanski EA,Caldwell MD,O'Neill JA

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00