Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition articles from November 2001

Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition archives from November 2001

Hydrocephalus--what's new? (Leading article).
November 1, 2001... "Not a lot" may be the general impression, but then it is easy to forget that, until the advent of shunts (almost 50 years ago), hydrocephalus was usually fatal. It is probably true to say that further fundamental advances have been slow in...

Can pH monitoring reliably detect gastro-oesophageal reflux in preterm infants? (Current Topic).
November 1, 2001... Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) is the regurgitation of gastric contents into the oesophagus. It is alleged to be the cause of many clinical problems in premature infants, such as failure to thrive, apnoea, desaturation, bradycardia, and...

Outcome at 14 years of extremely low birthweight infants: a regional study. (Original Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--To determine the neurosensory outcome at 14 years of age of a regional cohort of extremely low birthweight (ELBW) children, to contrast their prognosis with normal birthweight (NBW) controls, and to determine the...

Quality of life in young adults with very low birth weight. (Original Articles).
November 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--To assess quality of life (QoL) in a group of young adults born in 1980-1982 with very low birth weight (VLBW) and to compare this with a reference group and a similar cohort born eight years earlier. ...

The relation between pre-eclampsia at term and neonatal encephalopathy. (Original Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--To determine whether pre-eclampsia, hypothesised to be an inflammatory condition, is associated with fever in term labour, and confirm and examine the reported association of pre-eclampsia at term with neonatal...

Dependency level of babies on the neonatal unit: a comparison of two different classification systems. (Original Articles).
November 1, 2001... Abstract Background--Monitoring activity on the neonatal unit is important for planning service provision and as part of monitoring quality of care. The dependency level of the patients cared for must be taken into account as well as the...

Costs of different strategies for neonatal hearing screening: a modelling approach. (Original Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--To compare the cost effectiveness of various strategies for neonatal hearing screening by estimating the cost per hearing impaired child detected. Design--Cost analyses with a simulation model, including a...

Time to positivity of neonatal blood cultures. (Original Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Abstract Aim--To determine how long it takes neonatal blood cultures to become positive. Methods--Data were collected retrospectively on 451 positive blood cultures from babies on a tertiary neonatal unit between January 1997 and...

Frontal horn thin walled cysts in preterm neonates are benign. (Original Articles).
November 1, 2001... Abstract Background--Screening cranial ultrasound led to the discovery of isolated frontal horn cysts quite distinct from periventricular leucomalacia cysts. Aim--To clarify their significance, incidence, characteristics, causal...

Asymmetry of fetal cerebral hemispheres: in utero ultrasound study. (Original Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Abstract Background--Slight morphological asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres has been observed in fetal and newborn brains. In adults, sex differences in hemispheric asymmetry have also been reported. Objective--To establish whether...

Closure of the ductus arteriosus and development of pulmonary branch stenosis in babies of less than 32 weeks gestation. (Original Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Abstract Aims--To define how often transient pulmonary branch stenosis (PBS) develops after closure of a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in babies born at less than 32 weeks gestation; to describe the natural history of PBS and the relation...

Events before the diagnosis of a pneumothorax in ventilated neonates. (Original Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Abstract Aim--To examine the relation of over-ventilation and other clinical events to the development of pneumothoraces in ventilated neonates. Methods--A case-control study. Results--Fifty three (8.7%) of 606 ventilated neonates...

The influence of congenital heart disease on survival of infants with oesophageal atresia. (Original Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--To examine the prevalence of congenital heart disease in babies with oesophageal atresia and its influence on outcome. Design--Retrospective analysis. Setting--The resident population of one health region. ...

Nephrocalcinosis in preterm babies. (Original Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--To determine prospectively the incidence and cause of nephrocalcinosis in preterm infants. Study design--Inborn babies of gestation less than 32 weeks or birth weight less than 1500 g were eligible to be entered...

Genetic determinants of bone mineral content in premature infants. (Original Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Genetic determinants of bone mineral content in prematurely born children at 3 months and 9-11 years of age were studied. The findings suggest that multiple genes are involved in the regulation of site specific bone mass accumulation during...

Neonatal severe intractable diarrhoea as the presenting manifestation of an unclassified congenital disorder of glycosylation (CDG-x). (Case Report).
November 1, 2001... Abstract A case of severe and protracted diarrhoea is reported, which started in the neonatal period and progressively associated with neurological impairment, dysmorphy, hepatosplenomegaly, and hepatic insufficiency, from which the...

Functional atrioventricular block in a preterm infant. (Case Report).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Abstract A case of functional second degree atrioventricular block is reported in a preterm infant secondary to early onset hypo-calcaemia. An infusion of 10% calcium gluconate rapidly corrected the arrhythmia. (Arch Dis Child Fetal...

Jacob Rueff (1500-1558) of Zurich and The expert midwife. (Perinatal Lessons From The Past).
November 1, 2001... Little is known of Jacob Rueff's early life except that he was born in 1500, some say in Rhyntal, others in Wurttemberg. Settling in Zurich he became prominent in many fields. Although primarily known as a physician, surgeon, and lithotomist,...

Letters to the editor.
November 1, 2001... A survey of neonatal resuscitation training provided to general professional trainees at neonatal units in England and Wales EDITOR,--The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health produced recommendations on teaching and training junior...

CD ROM Review.(Review)
November 1, 2001... Practical Echocardiography for the Neonatologist. Nick Evans and Girvan Malcolm (CD ROM; A$250.00). Australia: RPA. The heart is a deceptively simple structure. Its main function is to power the circulation and it achieves this with only...