abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the safety and reactogenecity of indigenously produced measles vaccine derived from EZ strain. DESIGN:A longitudinal clinical follow up after vaccination. SETTING:Hospital based and home follow up, as required. SUBJECTS:12,470 children, 9 to 15 months old, immunized with measles vaccine of EZ str...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Bhargava I,Chhaparwal BC,Phadke MA,Irani SF,Chakladhar BK,Maheshwari CP

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the clinical and biochemical spectrum of Gaucher disease. DESIGN:Assay of beta glucosidase enzyme in leucocytes in patients with splenomegaly, and in chorionic villi for prenatal diagnosis. SETTING:Hospital-based. SUBJECTS:Of 13 cases of Gaucher disease, aged 1-6 years, 9 were identified at Delhi ...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Kaur M,Kabra M,Kher A,Naik G,Bharucha BA,Verma IC

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify an inexpensive, reliable predictor of low birth weight capable of being utilized by untrained personnel, anthropometric measures were performed on 1600 newborns in Kanpur, India. This analysis indicated that, for a birth weight of 2500 g, the critical limit of calf circumference was 10.8 cm or less. Crit...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Gupta V,Hatwal SK,Mathur S,Tripathi VN,Sharma SN,Saxena SC,Khadwal A

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to evaluate and compare the specific cellular responses of children vaccinated with three different strains of BCG. The study comprised of normal children with normal weight and normal general responses (PHA) to in vitro leukocyte migration inhibition test (LMIT). The three strains of B...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Vijayalakshmi V,Murthy KJ,Kumar S,Kiran AL

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty one pregnant women (20 +/- 2 weeks of gestation) were assessed for their nutritional status. They were divided into three groups; Group I women (n = 30) were given 200 mg ferrous sulphate (FeSO4) tablet per day for 15 weeks, Group II women (n = 25) were given FeSO4 tablets along with 2,000,000 IU of vitamin A a...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Chawla PK,Puri R

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was conducted in an industrial and prosperous city of Punjab to evaluate the biophysical profile of blood pressure (BP) in apparently healthy school children. A total of 2560 children between the ages of 5-15 years were enrolled. Their age, religion, dietary and family history were recorded. Weight and heigh...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Verma M,Chhatwal J,George SM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To document the normal values of pulmonary function tests in children and changes occurring in their values with various respiratory disorders, a study was carried over a period of one year in 95 healthy controls (39 females and 56 males) of 8-13 years of age and 51 cases with respiratory disorders (bronchial asthma-3...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Srivastava A,Kapoor RK,Misra PK,Srivastava KL,Thakur S,Shukla N

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of typhoid fever with furazolidone produces a high cure rate. This is a clinical curiosity, as furazolidone is described to be poorly absorbed. The present study examined whether furazolidone could produce unequivocal clinical response and, if so whether this was due to the drug producing bactericidal levels...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Kumar AS,Legori M,Sathy N,Mathew R

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical, angiographic and computed tomographic features in eight children with Moyamoya disease were evaluated. The CT Scan findings were correlated with the angiographic features and the stage of the vascular disease. Stenosis/occlusion of the supraclinoid internal carotid artery (ICA) and the proximal parts of ...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Jayakumar PN,Vasudev MK,Srikanth SG

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five hundred ninety two children (6.0%) were diagnosed as persistent diarrhea (PD) out of a total attendance of 9795 cases in the Diarrhea Training and Treatment Unit (DTU) over a period of 1 year. Most of the cases were initially managed as outpatients on dietary advice and treatment of associated infections. Eighty ...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Patwari AK,Anand VK,Aneja S,Sharma D

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in one second, peak expiratory flow, mid-expiratory flow and maximum voluntary ventilation was measured in 632 healthy, normal children from Metropolitan city of Bombay using computerized spirometer. The children were between age range 6 years to 15 years and belong ...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Chowgule RV,Shetye VM,Parmar JR

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty eight (16%) of the 362 patients, who reported to Dermatology and STD Department with symptoms pertaining to their genitourinary system were below 14 years of age. Fifty four (93.1%) of these children belonged to families of lower socio-economic strata. All the children were slum dwellers and none of them had stu...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Pandhi RK,Khanna N,Sekhri R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu State in India, 384 final-year female students attending the Government College for Women completed a questionnaire so the researcher could assess their knowledge of prenatal and childhood immunizations, breast feeding, weaning, oral rehydration solution (ORS), and feeding during diarrhea. 5...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Ganga N

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to evaluate whether a newborn or a neonate is capable of responding immunologically after BCG vaccination and to find out if this immunity persists for one year. Normal infants aged between 0 days-3 months brought to immunization centre were included in the study. In vitro leukocyte m...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Vijayalakshmi V,Kumar S,Kiran AL,Rani HS,Murthy KJ

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was performed on 44 patients (newborn to one year old) with acute bacterial meningitis. Sonograms were obtained within 72 hours of diagnosis, and repeated on 7th, 14th or at an early date, if required. The spectrum of sonographic features of meningitis included normal scan (35.4%), echogenic sulci ...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Soni JP,Gupta BD,Soni M,Gupta M,Dabi DR,Nemal KR

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Audit in medicine is a well tried means of assessing the quality of practice by using acceptable measures of outcome. Audit in maternal and child health has been limited to fatal outcomes such as maternal and perinatal deaths. The outcome of audit is of interest to the providers, the health authorities and the consume...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Swain S,Agrawal A,Bhatia BD,Rajaram P

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores the relationships between maternal weight, height and poor pregnancy outcome using a data set from a case-control study of low birth weight (LBW) and perinatal mortality in Ahmedabad, India. Maternal height and weights were compared between mothers of 611 perinatal deaths, 644 preterm-LBW, and 1465...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Mavalankar DV,Trivedi CC,Gray RH

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial ultrasound scans were done in 300 fetuses between 16 to 24 weeks of gestation to establish the normogram of fetal kidney circumference (FKC) and fetal abdominal circumference (FAC) ratio (FKC/FAC). Of 300 fetuses, 150 fetuses were in the high risk group for fetal malformation and 150 patients were in the contro...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Roy KK,Mittal S,Buckshee K

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty newborns, 25 full term SFDs (small for date) and 25 full term AGAs (appropriate for gestational age) were taken up for comparative study of their behavior using BNBAS (Brazelton's neonatal behavior assessment scale). The study revealed that full term SFDs performed significantly poorly on all items under cluster...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Abrol P,Kapoor R,Gathwala G,Tiwari S,Tiwari AD

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postictal values of plasma prolactin levels were measured in 15 children with generalized seizures, 8 children with pseudoseizures and 6 control subjects. In patients with generalized seizure, the mean plasma prolactin level was 28.6 +/- 2.3 ng/ml, whereas in patients with pseudoseizures and in controls, its mean valu...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Singh UK,Jana UK

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty five to thirty per cent of all patients admitted with head injuries to any large hospital are children. Head injuries in children differ in several ways from those seen in the adult population. A standard management protocol is used in a service hospital and CT and neurosurgical consultation/transfer is based o...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Sharma M,Sharma AK

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are well defined therapeutic protocols for childhood nephrotic syndrome. Appropriate therapy helps in minimizing side effects besides decreasing referrals to tertiary care centres. We have analysed the appropriateness of therapy of primary care physicians in 111 children with nephrotic syndrome referred to our I...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Gulati S,Kher V,Elhence R,Kumar P,Sharma RK,Gupta A

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth monitoring (GM) in India is a strategy to detect early growth retardation, promote optimum growth, create awareness about growth among mothers, enhance delivery of primary health care, and identify those at risk of malnutrition. Anthropometric measures include weight, height, mid-upper arm circumference, chest ...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Kapil U,Joshi A,Nayar D

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little published literature from the third World countries that described the factors influencing survival of babies with esophageal atresia. We analysed 25 consecutive neonates treated for esophageal atresia. The overall survival rate was 36%. All 4 babies in Waterston Group A, 37.5% in Group B, and 15.4% in...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Krishna A,Murali MV,Ahuja S,Kaur N

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six neonates were diagnosed to have acinetobacter sepsis during 1986-90, representing 6.5% of all cases of bacteriologically proven sepsis. Of these 19 neonates were low birth weight (LBW) 12 were small for gestational age (SGA). Nineteen neonates had early-onset sepsis. The male to female ratio was 9:17. The h...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Christo GG,Shenoy V,Matthai J,Shivananda PG,Venkatesh A

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty children with acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) were prospectively studied for their serum sodium values and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), serum and urinary osmolality. The results have been compared with 20 age and nutritionally matched controls. Even though mean serum osmolality (283.2 +/- 13.84 mOsm/kg) and serum...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Singh BS,Patwari AK,Deb M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This presentation deals with 110 surgically proven cases of abdominal tuberculosis in the pediatric age group. The protean clinical profiles and complications of the disease entity made the clinical diagnosis difficult; the investigations were also found non-pathognomonic. The most common type of pathology seen was ad...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Sharma AK,Agarwal LD,Sharma CS,Sarin YK

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen cyanotic congenital heart disease (CCHD) and 17 acyanotic congenital heart disease (ACHD) patients in the age range of 2 months to 10 years along with their age and nutrition matched controls were studied for bactericidal, chemotactic and phagocytic functions. Bactericidal and phagocytic functions were signif...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Parikh S,Bharucha B,Kamdar S,Kshirsagar N

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety neonates were ventilated over a period of 33 months of whom 50 (55.5%) survived. Fifty seven babies received IPPV while 33 CPAP. IPPV mode was being used more frequently recently and survival rates have steadily improved over past 3 years. Survival was cent per cent in babies above 1.5 kg on CPAP mode while 16/...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Singh M,Deorari AK,Paul VK,Mittal M,Shanker S,Munshi U,Jain Y

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized double blind placebo controlled trial was carried out to study the effect of phenobarbitone (PB) in preventing recurrences of simple and atypical febrile convulsions among children in the age group 6 months to 6 years. Children with simple febrile convulsions were randomly allocated to receive either phen...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Thilothammal N,Kannan,Krishnamurthy PV,Kamala KG,Ahamed S,Banu K

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone mineral content (BMC) was determined at the distal radius in 70 children aged 2-14 years; Group I comprising 34 normal healthy children and Group II 36 malnourished children by the method of single photon absorptiometry. The mean value of BMC in Group I was 0.3 +/- 0.04 g/cm in 2-5 year, 0.52 +/- 0.08 g/cm in 6-1...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Chaturvedi A,Garg OP,Choudhary B,Garg P

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hospital acquired enteric infections were investigated by studying 3138 children under 5 years of age who were admitted without diarrhea in nine medical words of a pediatric hospital, Calcutta during the period between March and September 1987. Three hundred and twenty (10.2%) children developed nosocomial diarrhea du...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Dutta P,Mitra U,Rasaily R,Bhattacharya SK,De SP,Sen D,Saha MR,Nair GB,Niyogi SK,Das P

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical features and management of 22 cases with proptosis is highlighted. Proptosis was unilateral in fifteen and bilateral in seven cases. The common etiologic factors were neoplasms, infections and bleeding diatheses. Of the ten cases with neoplasms as many as 7 expired, whereas of nine cases due to infections...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Merchant RH,deSouza CE,Shah KN,Sakhalkar VS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy five mothers with lactation failure were studied, whose less than 4-month-old babies were admitted to the hospital. Partial lactational failure (94.7%) was noted more often than complete lactational failure (5.3%). Initiation of breastfeeding was delayed for 2 to 5 days usually for traditional reasons (77.3%) ...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Mathur GP,Chitranshi S,Mathur S,Singh SB,Bhalla M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty two children were immunized with two doses of enhanced potency inactivated polio vaccine in order to determine its efficacy. The vaccine was very efficacious with 92.3, 92.3 and 88.3% of the children seroconverting to the three poliovirus types, respectively. The vaccine was equally efficacious whether the two d...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Singh J,Ravi RN,Dutta AK,Kumari S,Khare S

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study population included 110 term healthy small-for-gestational age (SGA) infants having a blood sugar of > 30 mg/dl at the age of < 30 minutes. They were randomized into two groups; (a) Group I (study group) received sugar-fortified milk formula and (b) Group II (control group) received standard milk formula. A ...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Singhal PK,Singh M,Paul VK,Lamba IM,Malhotra AK,Deorari AK,Ghorpade MD

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and four cases of osteoarticular tuberculosis were studied. There were 74 boys (71.2%) and 30 girls (28.8%). The mean age at the onset of symptoms was 7.3 years, ranging from 9 months to 18 years. Seventy four cases (71%) reported 3 months after onset of symptoms. The spine was the commonest site involved ...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Singh SB,Saraf SK,Singh LI,Srivastava TP

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychosocial assessment was carried out in 35 children with acute lymphatic leukemic, an equal number with non-leukemic chronic illness and their parents. Psychological dysfunction existed more frequently in parents of leukemic children. Depression as an initial reaction on being conveyed the diagnosis, was seen in 85...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Rao GP,Malhotra S,Marwaha RK

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and hematological data of 9 cases with factor XIII deficiency is highlighted. The age at first bleed ranged from 3 days of life to 1 year. Seven of these 9 cases had bleeding from the umbilicus, 3 had recurrent subcutaneous and muscle hematomas, while 4 cases had CNS bleeds of which 3 expired. Routine coagulo...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Merchant RH,Agarwal BR,Currimbhoy Z,Pherwani A,Avasthi B

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An age-independent anthropometric index to identify undernourished children in the age group of 5-10 years is described. Employing a mathematical approach (linear regression analysis) on data from 238 children, the index was derived to be wt/(ht)2. Employing this index, a classification rule for identifying the undern...

journal_title：Indian pediatrics

authors： Ramakrishnan R,Rao TV,Prasad GP

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00