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49 result(s) within Volume 5 of BMC Pediatrics

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  1. Coagulase negative staphylococcus (CONS) is the main cause of late-onset sepsis in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU). Although CONS rarely causes fulminant sepsis, vancomycin is frequently used as empiric t...

    Authors: Sarah L Lawrence, Virginia Roth, Robert Slinger, Baldwin Toye, Isabelle Gaboury and Brigitte Lemyre
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:49
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  2. The condition of obesity has become a significant public health problem in the United States. In children and adolescents, the prevalence of overweight has tripled in the last 20 years, with approximately 16.0...

    Authors: Carol Curtin, Linda G Bandini, Ellen C Perrin, David J Tybor and Aviva Must
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:48
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  3. Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE) is so rare in developed countries with measles immunization programs that national active surveillance is now needed to capture sufficient number of cases for meaning...

    Authors: Craig Campbell, Simon Levin, Peter Humphreys, Wikke Walop and Renee Brannan
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:47
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  4. Anaemia is highly prevalent in children of developing countries. It is associated with impaired physical growth and mental development. Palmar pallor is recommended at primary level for diagnosing it, on the b...

    Authors: Juan P Chalco, Luis Huicho, Carlos Alamo, Nilton Y Carreazo and Carlos A Bada
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:46
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  5. Care procedures for preventing neonatal diseases are carried out according to nurseries' traditions and may be not consistent with the evidence based medicine issues.

    Authors: Andrea Guala, Roberta Guarino, Mauro Zaffaroni, Claudio Martano, Claudio Fabris, Guido Pastore and Gianni Bona
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:45
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  7. The introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) to the U.S. recommended childhood immunization schedule in the year 2000 added three injections to the number of vaccinations a child is expected to rec...

    Authors: Nancy D Lin, Ken Kleinman, K Arnold Chan, Xian-Jie Yu, Eric K France, Stanley Xu, Feifei Wei, John Mullooly, Jeanne Santoli and Tracy A Lieu
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:43
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  8. The Complete Blood Count (CBC) is a test frequently performed on children presenting to the Pediatric Emergency Department (PED), usually for the evaluation of an infectious illness. The CBC also allows for sc...

    Authors: Martin V Pusic, Brenda J Dawyduk and David Mitchell
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:42
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  10. The increased survival of preterm and very low birth weight infants in recent years has been well documented but continued surveillance is required in order to monitor the effects of new therapeutic interventi...

    Authors: Huw P Jones, Stella Karuri, Catherine MG Cronin, Arne Ohlsson, Abraham Peliowski, Anne Synnes and Shoo K Lee
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:40
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  11. Bronchitis obliterans is a severe and extremely rare complication of respiratory tract infections in children and is characterized by massive atelectasis and collapse of the affected lung. Of the rare cases re...

    Authors: Elke Govaere, Dirk Van Raemdonck, Hugo Devlieger, Maria-Helena Smet, Eric Verbeken, Marijke Proesmans and Kris De Boeck
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:39
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  12. The delivery of optimal medical care to children is dependent on the availability of child relevant research. Our objectives were to: i) systematically review and describe how children are handled in reviews o...

    Authors: Kristie Cramer, Natasha Wiebe, Virginia Moyer, Lisa Hartling, Katrina Williams, George Swingler and Terry P Klassen
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:38
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  15. The antipyretic effectiveness of rectal versus oral acetaminophen is not well established. This study is designed to compare the antipyretic effectiveness of two rectal acetaminophen doses (15 mg/kg) and (35 m...

    Authors: Mona Nabulsi, Hala Tamim, Ramzi Sabra, Ziyad Mahfoud, Shadi Malaeb, Hadi Fakih and Mohammad Mikati
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:35
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  16. Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder of childhood. Learning disabilities are frequently comorbid with TS. Using the largest sample of TS patients ever reported, we sought to identify differe...

    Authors: Larry Burd, Roger D Freeman, Marilyn G Klug and Jacob Kerbeshian
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:34
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  17. Because there are no child-friendly, validated, self-report measures of dyspnea or breathlessness, we developed, and provided initial validation, of three, 7-item, pictorial scales depicting three sub-construc...

    Authors: Patrick J McGrath, Paul T Pianosi, Anita M Unruh and Chloe P Buckley
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:33
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  18. Spina Bifida (SB) is the second most common birth defect worldwide. Since the chances of survival in children with severe SB-forms have increased, medical care has shifted its emphasis from life-saving interve...

    Authors: Ignace PR Vermaes, Jan MAM Janssens, Anna MT Bosman and Jan RM Gerris
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:32
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  19. Acute viral bronchiolitis is one of the most common causes of hospitalisation during infancy in our region with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) historically being the major causative agent. Many infants with...

    Authors: Hans-Olav Fjærli, Teresa Farstad, Gisle Rød, Gunn Kristin Ufert, Pål Gulbrandsen and Britt Nakstad
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:31
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  20. PCO2 and PO2 are important monitoring parameters in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). Compared to conventional blood gas measurements that cause significant blood loss in preterms, transcutaneous (tc) measure...

    Authors: Mario Rüdiger, Kerstin Töpfer, Hannes Hammer, Gerd Schmalisch and Roland R Wauer
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:30
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  21. Iron supplementation may be associated with oxidative stress particularly in premature infants. Our purpose was to examine 1) early supplemental iron during treatment with erythropoietin (EPO) and oxidative st...

    Authors: James K Friel, Khalid Aziz, Wayne L Andrews and Robert E Serfass
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:29
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  22. Little is known about the factors that predispose to the occurrence and severity of cardio-respiratory symptoms during the placement of a prematurely born infant in a car seat. The impact of gestational age, w...

    Authors: Vallier C Ojadi, Anna Petrova, Rajeev Mehta and Thomas Hegyi
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:28
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  23. Middle ear disease (otitis media) is common and frequently severe in Australian Aboriginal children. There have not been any recent large-scale surveys using clear definitions and a standardised middle ear ass...

    Authors: Peter S Morris, Amanda J Leach, Peter Silberberg, Gabrielle Mellon, Cate Wilson, Elizabeth Hamilton and Jemima Beissbarth
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:27
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  24. Improved survival due to advances in neonatal care has brought issues such as postnatal growth and development more to the focus of our attention. Most studies report stunting in children born very preterm and...

    Authors: Noël BB Knops, Kommer CA Sneeuw, Ronald Brand, Elysee TM Hille, A Lya den Ouden, Jan-Maarten Wit and S Pauline Verloove-Vanhorick
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:26
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  25. In children with severe generalized cerebral palsy, pneumonias are a major health issue. Malnutrition, dysphagia, gastro-oesophageal reflux, impaired respiratory function and constipation are hypothesized risk...

    Authors: Rebekka Veugelers, Elsbeth AC Calis, Corine Penning, Arianne Verhagen, Roos Bernsen, Jan Bouquet, Marc A Benninga, Peter JFM Merkus, Hubertus GM Arets, Dick Tibboel and Heleen M Evenhuis
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:25
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  26. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is believed to be more common in adult males as compared to females. It also has been shown in adults to be more common in Caucasians. We wanted to determine ethnicity an...

    Authors: Dena Nazer, Ronald Thomas and Vasundhara Tolia
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:24
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  27. Information is lacking on the effects of congenital toxoplasmosis on development, behavior, and impairment in later childhood, as well as on parental concerns and anxiety. This information is important for cou...

    Authors: Katherine Freeman, Alison Salt, Andrea Prusa, Gunilla Malm, Nicole Ferret, Wilma Buffolano, Dorthe Schmidt, Hooi Kuan Tan and Ruth E Gilbert
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:23
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  28. Nosocomial infection (NI), particularly with positive blood or cerebrospinal fluid bacterial cultures, is a major cause of morbidity in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Rates of NI appear to vary substan...

    Authors: Khalid Aziz, Douglas D McMillan, Wayne Andrews, Margaret Pendray, Zhenguo Qiu, Stella Karuri and Shoo K Lee
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:22
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  29. We aimed to determine how response to a parent-completed postal questionnaire measuring development, behaviour, impairment, and parental concerns and anxiety, varies in different European centres.

    Authors: A Salt, K Freeman, A Prusa, N Ferret, W Buffolano, G Malm, D Schmidt, HK Tan and RE Gilbert
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:21
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  30. Induced mutagenesis in utero is likely to have life-long repercussions for the exposed fetus, affecting survival, birth weight and susceptibility to both childhood and adult-onset diseases, such as cancer. In the...

    Authors: Stephen G Grant
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:20
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  31. Determination of PC20-FEV1 during Methacholine bronchial provocation test (MCT) is considered to be impossible in preschool children, as it requires repetitive spirometry sets. The aim of this study was to assess...

    Authors: Lea Bentur, Raphael Beck, Nael Elias, Asher Barak, Ori Efrati, Yaacov Yahav and Daphna Vilozni
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:19
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  33. For treatment of Graf class IIb dysplastic hips at walking onset a treatment concept with abduction splints allowing patterns as walking and crawling under constant abduction control was investigated. However,...

    Authors: Henning Windhagen, Fritz Thorey, Heinrich Kronewid, Thomas Pressel, Dieter Herold and Christina Stukenborg-Colsman
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:17
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  34. It is unclear why some children with acute otitis media (AOM) have poor outcomes. Our aim was to describe the clinical course of AOM and the associated bacterial nasopharyngeal colonisation in a high-risk popu...

    Authors: Katherine B Gibney, Peter S Morris, Jonathan R Carapetis, Susan A Skull, Heidi C Smith-Vaughan, Elizabeth Stubbs and Amanda J Leach
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:16
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  35. Growth-enhancing hormone treatment is considered a possible intervention in short but otherwise healthy adolescents. Although height gain is an obvious measure for evaluating hormone treatment, this may not be...

    Authors: Hanneke Visser – van Balen, Rinie Geenen, Gerdine A Kamp, Jaap Huisman, Jan M Wit and Gerben Sinnema
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:15
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  36. Kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis and may affect cerebral function acutely. The aim of the present study was to measure a number of behaviour and social parameters within a cohort of Kawasaki disease p...

    Authors: Daniel Carlton-Conway, Raju Ahluwalia, Lucy Henry, Colin Michie, Louise Wood and Robert Tulloh
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:14
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  37. The appropriateness of an individual's intra uterine growth is now considered an important determinant of both short and long term outcomes, yet currently used measures have several shortcomings. This study de...

    Authors: Eve M Blair, Yingxin Liu, Nicholas H de Klerk and David M Lawrence
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:13
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  40. There are no standard criteria for when to discontinue intravenous antimicrobial therapy (IVAMT) in children with febrile neutropenia (FN), but it is now common to discontinue IVAMT and discharge patients with...

    Authors: Heather Hodgson-Viden, Paul E Grundy and Joan L Robinson
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:10
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  41. Mucopolysaccharidoses are heritable, metabolic diseases caused by deficiency in an activity of one of specific lysosomal enzymes involved in degradation of mucoplysaccharides (glycosaminoglycans). Among many m...

    Authors: Grzegorz Węgrzyn, Julianna Kurlenda, Anna Liberek, Anna Tylki-Szymańska, Barbara Czartoryska, Ewa Piotrowska, Joanna Jakóbkiewicz-Banecka and Alicja Węgrzyn
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:9
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  42. Advances in medical technology may be increasing the population of children who are technology-dependent (TD). We assessed the proportion of children discharged from a children's hospital who are judged to be ...

    Authors: Chris Feudtner, Nanci Larter Villareale, Barbara Morray, Virginia Sharp, Ross M Hays and John M Neff
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:8
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  43. Bronchiolitis is the most common cause of lower respiratory tract illness in infancy, and hospital admission rates appear to be increasing in Canada and the United States. Inhaled beta agonists offer only mode...

    Authors: Joanne M Langley, Michael B Smith, John C LeBlanc, Heather Joudrey, Cecil R Ojah and Paul Pianosi
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:7
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  45. Phenylketonuria is an inborn error of amino acid metabolism which can cause severe damage to the patient or, in the case of maternal phenylketonuria, to the foetus. The maternal phenylketonuria syndrome is cau...

    Authors: Ina Knerr, Johannes Zschocke, Stefan Schellmoser, Hans G Topf, Corina Weigel, Jörg Dötsch and Wolfgang Rascher
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:5
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  46. Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common sources of infection in children under five. Prompt diagnosis and treatment is important to reduce the risk of renal scarring. Rapid, cost-effective, met...

    Authors: Penny Whiting, Marie Westwood, Ian Watt, Julie Cooper and Jos Kleijnen
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:4
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  47. Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome (CVS) is characterised by discrete, unexplained episodes of intense nausea and vomiting, and mainly affects children and adolescents. Comprehending Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome require...

    Authors: Fiona E McRonald and David R Fleisher
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:3
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  49. The management of burn injuries is reported as painful, distressing and a cause of anxiety in children and their parents. Child's and parents' pain and anxiety, often contributes to extended time required for ...

    Authors: Debashish A Das, Karen A Grimmer, Anthony L Sparnon, Sarah E McRae and Bruce H Thomas
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2005 5:1
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