Showing papers in "The Journal of Pediatrics in 1989"

TL;DR: The authors conducted a meta-analysis and methods review of 80 studies, published in the last decade, that explored the outcome of low birth weight infants; 27% involved infants whose birth weights were ≤2500 gm (low birth weight), 44%≤1500 gm, and 29% ≤1000 gm.

TL;DR: Children who had moderate and severe neonatal encephalopathy are at risk for physical and mental impairment and reduced school performance.

TL;DR: Patients with atopic dermatitis and food hypersensitivity who were adhering to an elimination diet underwent repeat double-blind, placebo-controlled oral food challenges annually for follow-up of their food allergy until 1 year, when 19 of 75 patients lost all signs of clinical food hypers sensitivity.

TL;DR: It is concluded that children and adolescents with morbid obesity are at risk for sleep-associated breathing disorders; their polysomnographic abnormalities are usually mild but rarely may be severe enough to require clinical intervention.

TL;DR: It is concluded that glucose-stimulated insulin secretion is normally increased during puberty, a response that may compensate for puberty-induced defects in insulin sensitivity.

TL;DR: The Baltimore-Washington Infant Study is a population-based case-control study that seeks to identify risk factors for cardiovascular malformations and the absence of transpositions and the rarity of heterotaxias and of right- and left-sided obstructive lesions in trisomies indicate that there may be a genetic influence on specific embryologic mechanisms.

TL;DR: The data suggest a possible role of IL-1 beta and tumor necrosis factor as mediators of meningeal inflammation in patients with bacterial meningitis, and might explain, in part, the beneficial effect of dexamethasone as adjunctive treatment in this disease.

TL;DR: A retrospective analysis of the occurrence of bacterial and fungal infections in patients who received trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and ketoconazole as infection prophylaxis indicated that the former was effective against bacterial infections but that ketoconzole provided no protection against Aspergillus infections.

TL;DR: The types of cerebral injury seen in term neonates exposed antenatally to cocaine, methamphetamine, or cocaine and a narcotic are consistent with those seen in adult cocaine and methamphetamine abusers and are probably related to the vasoconstrictive properties of these drugs.

TL;DR: Optic gliomas are commonly identified in young children with neurofibromatosis type 1 who have no ocular or visual abnormalities and may be associated with plexiform neurof fibromas of the eyelid and glaucoma.

TL;DR: The reaction of cerebral blood flow to acute changes in arterial carbon dioxide pressure (PaCO2) and mean arterial blood pressure was determined in 57 preterm infants supported by mechanical ventilation during the first 48 hours of life to suggest functional disturbances of cerebralBlood flow regulation.

TL;DR: It is recommended that spiramycin treatment be started as soon as possible once the diagnosis of maternal Toxoplasma infection during pregnancy is proved or strongly suspected, because a prolonged time interval between onset of infection and start of treatment seems to be associated with the presence of severe fetal lesions at the time of prenatal diagnosis.

TL;DR: It is concluded that small intestinal motility is more immature in preterm infants than in term infants and cluster activity, which increases in duration and amplitude with gestational age, may be an immature form of phase 3 activity.

TL;DR: Recherche des connaissances actuelles sur l'epidemiologie, le diagnostic chez l'enfant, l'etiologies, les manifestations cliniques tres diverses, le pronostic.

TL;DR: The association of Sweet syndrome with chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis and congenital dyserythropoietic anemia in this family suggests that these rare conditions may be interrelated.

TL;DR: It is concluded that meconium is useful for drug screening in the neonate because it shows the presence of at least one drug metabolite in the infants of drug-dependent mothers.

TL;DR: One-way analyses of variance on the dependent measures indicate that the children with severe medical late effects have a poorer total self-concept, more depressive symptoms, and a more external locus of control than those with no or mild-to-moderate late effects.

TL;DR: Mesures effectuees dans des cas d'apnee obstructive du sommeil (avec ronflements) persistante ou reapparue malgre amygdalectomie et adenoidectomies anterieures, avec enregistrements polygraphiques nocturnes multiples and cephalometrie dans les 3 cas les plus severes.

TL;DR: It is concluded that mechanical ventilation that results in PaCO2 levels above the physiologic range may decrease the risk of CLD in extremely low birth weight infants.

TL;DR: Results show that significant hypertension is uncommon in pre-high-school students and confirm the need for repeated BP measurements to make an accurate diagnosis of hypertension, however, the results should not detract from current recommendations to monitor BP in children on a yearly basis.

TL;DR: Oral anticoagulation (vitamin K antagonists, maintaining the prothrombin time from one and one-half to two times control values or at the international Normalized Ratio of 2.5 to 4.4) is the recommendation of choice for long-term treatment.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that acetaminophen does not alleviate symptoms in children with varicella and may prolong illness.

TL;DR: Preliminary data indicate that growth-retarded children with chronic renal failure can respond to exogenous growth hormone therapy with a marked acceleration in growth velocity, which is consistent with the period of growth.

TL;DR: There was a significant improvement in the proportion of infants considered to have disabilities by a functional classification assigned at 3 years corrected age, but only for infants weighing more than 800 gm at birth, and infants delivered at the community hospitals had a higher prevalence of neurosensory impairments.

TL;DR: Il s'agit ici d'un point de vue beaucoup plus large que la capacite legale du consentement, mais de the capacite de l'enfant a un consentement eclaire, de l'sevaluation and of l'encouragement of cette capacite.

TL;DR: Improved compliance with well-child care, fewer illness visits, and sharp reductions in hospitalization and in neglect or abuse were found in the visited group compared with the control group, and substantial cost was averted.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the cases of 18 patients with CMD, six of whom also have involvement of the central nervous system, corresponding to the Fukuyama type of CMD.

TL;DR: Serial PET studies in children with SWS can be used to assess disease progression and, together with computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging, may be useful in the selection of suitable candidates for cerebral hemispherectomy or focal cortical resection.

TL;DR: It is suggested that dexamethasone produces acute improvement in infants with lung disease but no long-term effect on mortality rate, duration of oxygen requirement or age at discharge.