abstract：:Primary type V hyperlipoproteinemia was identified in two preadolescent children. The propositus (kindred N) was a 10-year-old girl with severely creamy plasma, lipemia retinalis, hypertriglyceridemia (triglyceridelevel, 6,800 mg/100 ml), and ypercholesterolemia (cholesterol level, 490 mg/100 ml). Her parents and an 8...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kwiterovich PO Jr,Farah JR,Brown WV,Bachorik PS,Baylin SB,Neill CA

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course of 42 children with intracranial pressure monitoring was reviewed. Intracranial hypertension was documented in a variety of diagnostic categories. Therapy was titrated to maintain a baseline intracranial pressure of less than 15 torr (mm Hg), and to decrease the frequency of spontaneous and reactiv...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Mickell JJ,Reigel DH,Cook DR,Binda RE,Safar P

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new cases that conform to the clinical and histopathological features of recurring digital fibrous tumor of childhood, described by Reye in 1965, are reported. This tumor, which is considered a distinct entity among the juvenile fibromatoses, characteristically presents in infancy and early childhood, involves onl...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Beckett JH,Jacobs AH

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen term newborn infants have been recognized as having transient tricuspid insufficiency associated with significant perinatal stress. Five of these infants underwent cardiac catheterization for presumed congenital heart disease, but had only massive tricuspid valve insufficiency. The other nine infants were dia...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bucciarelli RL,Nelson RM,Egan EA,Eitzman DV,Gessner IH

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental study was designed to help parents cope with the implications of the diagnosis of congenital heart disease. Intervention strategies involving clarification of medical information, discussion of psychological issues, and a combination of the two, were more effective than no intervention in helping paren...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kupst MJ,Blatterbauer S,Westman J,Schulman JL,Paul MH

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythromelalgia is an extraordinary disease which remains elusive in its pathophysiology and management. Victims suffer intense burning and redness of the hands and feet. In what appears to be the antithesis of Raynaud's disease, the pain is relieved by emersion in cold. A child with erythromelalgia is described whose...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Mandell F,Folkman J,Matsumoto S

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-term male infant delivered by caesarean section following a prolonged rupture of the amniotic membranes of 30 hours' duration manifested peculiar skin lesions at the time of birth consistent with the healing phase of bullous impetigo. He was colonized with beta-hemolytic Streptococcus group B that was also cult...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lopez JB,Gross P,Boggs TR

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transthoracic direct current shock is the recommended treatment for ventricular fibrillation in children as in adults. To determine the appropriate energy dose, data were collected from 71 defibrillation attempts in 27 children. Sixty-three of the 71 shocks (89%) were successful in terminating fibrillation. Fifty-seve...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Gutgesell HP,Tacker WA,Geddes LA,Davis S,Lie JT,McNamara DG

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assumption that children with phenylketonuria (PKU) develop normally until birth was brought into question by the recent report that PKU children weigh several hundred grams less at birth than their unaffected siblings. We have examined intrafamily differences in birthweight in 40 sibships with at least one affect...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Rothman KJ,Pueschel SN

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two brothers, aged 11 years 6 months and 2 years 3 months, with psychomotor and growth retardation, episodes of weakness, ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and elevated levels of blood pyruvate were shown to have a deficiency in the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDH). When they ate a diet high enough in fats to cause ketonem...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Falk RE,Cederbaum SD,Blass JP,Gibson GE,Kark RA,Carrel RE

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 412 infants with birthweights between 501 and 2,500 gm and gestational ages of 36 weeks or less were studied for the influence of both prolonged ruputre of amniotic membranes and maternal hypertension on the incidence of idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS). The occurrence of these complications ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lee KS,Eidelman AI,Tseng PI,Kandall SR,Gartner LM

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:School nurse practitioners have the competence to participate in providing a broad range of direct primary health care and services to the school-age child. Greater utilization of these specially prepared and highly qualified nurse practitioners as providers of health care in the school is a practical and effective me...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Silver HK,Igoe JB,McAtee PR

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred children with the hyperkinetic syndrome or minimal brain dysfunction syndrome were treated with medication: 60 with methylphenidate (Ritalin), 24 with dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine), and 16 with either imipramine or desipramine. The duration of treatment was for a minimum of two years, and averaged five yea...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Gross MD

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of aminophylline in the treatment of apnea of prematurity was evaluated in 13 premature infants (mean birthweight, 1.13 kg; mean gestational age, 29 weeks). Apnea was recorded by direct observation in combination with impedance monitoring. Rectal suppositories of aminophylline (5 mg) were given at si...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bednarek FJ,Roloff DW

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin A delivery was studied in total parenteral nutrition as used for neonates. Although the data show that the patient receives more vitamin A than dictated by known needs or advised intakes, delivery to the patient is roughly one third of that which would be predicted from the initial intravenous solution composi...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hartline JV,Zachman RD

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of phenylephrine hydrochloride on the degree of hypoxia were studied in six cyanotic patients with tetralogy of Fallot. Baseline aortic and right atrial oxygen saturations, blood gas tensions, pH, and indicator-dilution curves were obtained under stable conditions. Phenylephrine was infused while systemic arte...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Nudel DB,Berman MA,Talner NS

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind crossover trial involving a control diet and a diet eliminating artificial flavors, colors, and natural salicylates as recommended by Feingold was conducted on 15 hyperkinetic children. Teachers and parents observed the children for one month prior to treatment, using standardized rating scales. Both pa...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Conners CK,Goyette CH,Southwick DA,Lees JM,Andrulonis PA

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 24% (18 out of 76) small-for-dates a "significant" though asymptomatic hypoglycemia was demonstrated during the first six hours of life. The cord blood glucose concentration was lower in the hypoglycemic compared to that of the small-for-date normoglycemic group. In the hypoglycemic infants, the disappearance rate ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： de Leeuw R,de Vries IJ

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cases of ophthalmia neonatorum diagnosed at Grady Memorial Hospital 1967-1973 were reviewed. Of 302 cases 43 could be diagnosed as gonococcal, 86 chlamydial, 3 gonococcal and chlamydial, 31 staphylococcal, and 5 chemical. Silver nitrate prophylaxis was routinely employed. Gonococcal cases peaked during the third quart...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Armstrong JH,Zacarias F,Rein MF

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the suppression of urinary pregnanetriol and 17-ketosteroids during treatment with cortisol, cortisone, prednisone, and dexamethasone in eight patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. A large individual variation in response to each agent was observed. In some individuals, cortisone is less effec...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hansen JW,Loriaux DL

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of phototherapy for nonhemolytic hyperbilirubinemia was evaluated in two groups of closely matched newborns, one group consisting of "healthy" and the other "ill" infants. Phototherapy was equally effective in reducing bilirubin levels in both groups of infants. It would seem to be the treatment of c...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Tan KL

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic adaptation to fasting in infants with hyperinsulinism was examined to see whether a characteristic abnormality could be found that would aid in the diagnosis of this disorder. Seven infants under 1 year of age with hyperinsulinism were studied; 7 control infants of similar age and 12 children with ketoti...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Stanley CA,Baker L

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five members in two generations of one family were found to have occipitofrontal head circumferences more than 2 SD above the mean. All five had normal intelligence and neurological examinations. Three of the five had ventricular dilatation by A-mode echoencephalography. The inheritance pattern of macrocephaly in this...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Asch AJ,Myers GJ

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L.L. Stephens described several critical issues in medical professionalization. The encounter with morbidity and mortality heightens the student's feelings of vulnerability. If he over-identifies with patients, he may suffer more and be unable to provide rational medical care. If he protects himself by dehumanizing pa...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Werner ER,Korsch BM

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemic of acute myositis affecting children occurred in association with influenza B infections. The myositis followed the initial influenza-like episode, and almost exclusively involved the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles. Patients improved without specific treatment and made a complete recovery in four to five...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Dietzman DE,Schaller JG,Ray CG,Reed ME

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adolescent girl, devoid of a detectable humoral immunity to measles virus despite two inoculations of live, attenuated vaccine, developed an exaggerated atypical rubeola illness following exposure to wild virus. This observation suggests that attenuated virus may be capable of immunologically sensitizing some indiv...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： St Geme JW Jr,George BL,Bush BM

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hurler and Scheie syndromes, two of the six clinically distinct mucopolysaccharidoses, are deficient in the same lysosomal enzyme, alpha-L-iduronidase. A third group of iduronidase-deficient patients can now be identified during the pediatric years using clinical and radiographic criteria. Based on inferential evidenc...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Stevenson RE,Howell RR,McKusick VA,Suskind R,Hanson JW,Elliott DE,Neufeld EF

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal function was studied in 24 children with chronic hydronephrosis and renal insufficiency. The follow-up period after reconstructive surgery was 1 to 12 years. Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was assessed by the clearance of endogenous creatinine or inulin. Effective renal plasma flow was assessed by the clearanc...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Mayor G,Genton N,Torrado A,Guignard JP

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The free running test has been successfully carried out in patients from 5 to 21 years old. It has the following advantages: (1) it simulates normal exercise pattern; (2) it is readily performed in any health care setting; (3) it is simple to perform and noninvasive in nature; and (4) it reveals a maximum decrease in ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Pierson WE,Bierman CW

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of events leading to the development of acute obstruction in two infants with coarctation has been defined by clinical, hemodynamic, and angiographic studies. One infant had normally related great arteries and an isolated coarctation, while the other infant had transposition with a hypoplastic right ventr...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Talner NS,Berman MA

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound was used to evaluate 100 pediatric patients suspected of having a mass. This technique was found to be useful in several ways: (1) differentiation of cystic, solid, and complex masses, which is not usually possible with routine roentgenographic evaluation; (2) delineation of free fluid collections from thos...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Goldberg BB,Pollack HM,Capitanio MA,Kirkpatrick JA

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current status of nursery routines of prophylaxis against ophthalmia neonatorum were surveyed by mail questionnaire to 100 leading maternity hospitals. More than 20% of the respondents were not using silver nitrate, mainly because of chemical conjunctivitis. The clinical significance and incidence of chemical conj...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Nishida H,Risemberg HM

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of waterbeds were developed to impart compensatory vestibular-proprioceptive stimulation to premature infants. Twenty-one infants ranging in gestational age from 27 to 34 weeks and birthweights from 1,050 to 1,920 gm were included in this pilot study. Assignment to experimental and control groups was made by...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Korner AF,Kraemer HC,Haffner ME,Cosper LM

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An organization of clinical faculty has been formed at Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, to help coordinate the mutual goals but sometimes conflicting needs of practicing pediatricians and a teaching hospital. The organization has been active in developing and conducting educational experiences f...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Leslie HJ Jr,Reeb KG,Rome LP,Strassman SS

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen asymptomatic children with benign rheumatoid nodules, followed up to 12 years, are described. Nodules are characterized by subcutaneous location with predilection for pretibial regions and scalp, occasional large size, spontaneous regression, and frequent recurrence. Granuloma annulare was present in two patie...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Simons FE,Schaller JG

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subject of occult spinal dysraphism or myelodysplasia is reviewed from standpoints of embryology, clinical manifestations, and treatment, and the management of 73 cases summarized. In general, these concealed lesions arise from developmental variants in the most distal part of the neural tube, a situation which ma...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Anderson FM

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assumption that congenital rubella is commonly associated with microcephaly and mental retardation was examined. Among a rubella clinic population of 111 children, 92 children had vision sufficient to allow testing by the Leiter International Scale. The mean IQ for this group was 99.46 (SD, 19.5). Head circumferen...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Macfarlane DW,Boyd RD,Dodrill CB,Tufts E

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides background information on acoustic impedance testing and illustrates utilization of test results in pediatric clinical practice. Acoustic impedance measurement devices are presently being used successfully by hearing screening programs and by otorhinolaryngologists in clinical and hospital setti...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Ehrlich MA,Tait CA

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the long-term effects of therapeutic pulmonary irradiation and treatment with actinomycin D during a period of lung growth, 12 patients treated for Wilms' tumor metastatic to the lung and 8 patients treated for Wilms' tumor with no evidence of pulmonary metastases were studied 7 to 14 years after their in...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Wohl ME,Griscom NT,Traggis DG,Jaffe N

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic therapy has been shown to be of no value in the treatment of the URI--either in shortening the course of the acute illness or in preventing the development of secondary bacterial infections. Patient expense, as well as the threat of adverse reactions, should prohibit the present practice by some of routinel...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Soyka LF,Robinson DS,Lachant N,Monaco J

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00