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SYNOPSISThe sex ratio in 76 children with an elevated serum phenylalanine level was studied in relation to their mode of ascertainment. The ratio of the sexes in the whole group was equal, but males outnumbered females 9:4 in classical cases of PKU discovered by means of the Guthrie test. This suggests that a proportion of females with classical PKU is being missed by the Guthrie test when this is performed in the first week of life. Males very markedly outnumber females in the group designated as having persistent hyperphenylalaninaemia.The value of a second follow‐up screening test is emphasise

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1971.tb01052.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

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SYNOPSISThe mean daily intake of pooled human milk (containing 1.84 ± 0.24 g% protein) was measured during the first and successive postnatal weeks in infants of low birth weight. By the end of the second postnatal week this feeding provided a protein allowance of 3 to 5 gm/Kg/day, largely independent of the infant's sex and perinatal history

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1971.tb01053.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

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SYNOPSISThe clinical features of 36 infants who presented with hypocalcaemia in the first 2 years of life are reviewed and their subsequent progress studied. Males outnumbered females 28:8.While a low serum calcium level is physiological and common in preterm infants, symptomatic hypocalcaemia is seen much more frequently in bigger babies. Hypocalcaemia in the neonatal period is nearly always a transient phenomenon.Vitamin D deficiency rickets was surprisingly common, occurring in 9 of the 36 infants. Most of these children were from migrant families and this emphasises the particular needs of these people in our community health programmes.Even when convulsions occurred, the hypocalcaemia had remarkably little adverse effect on future intellectual development. The children with rickets, however, often showed other evidence of socio‐environmental deprivation, including poor intellectual performanc

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1971.tb01054.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

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ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1971.tb01055.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1971.tb01056.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

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SYNOPSISAll cases of portal hypertension seen at the Adelaide Children's Hospital over a 19‐year period have been studied.The causes were noted, and the cases placed in one of two groups: pre‐ or postsinusoidal.The results showed that the two groups differed in their mode of presentation and in the results of investigations. This condition is rare in childhood and the prognosis is poor, but in patients with the presinusoidal type of obstruction in whom a shunt procedure was performed, the prognosis was better when the operation could be delayed unil late childhood or early adolesce

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1971.tb01057.x

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年代:1971

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SYNOPSISA child admitted to hospital with a fractured skull had a normal EEG. While in hospital, he developed the clinical and electroencephalographic features of hypsarrhythmia. Treatment with corticotrophin controlled the seizures, the EEG reverted to normal, and the child's subsequent mental and motor development has been satisfactory.

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1971.tb01058.x

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年代:1971

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SYNOPSISA case of methaemoglobinaemia resulting from a deficiency of NADH2‐methaemoglobin reductase (diaphorase) is described. The necessity of considering methaemoglobinaemia in the differential diagnosis of neonatal cyanosis is stressed, as well as the need for adequate laboratory back‐up The patient was effectively treated with ascorbic a

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1971.tb01059.x

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年代:1971

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ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1971.tb01060.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

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Book reviewed in this article:Practical Neonatal Paediatrics, by R. J. K. Brown and H. B. Valman.Recent Advances in Paediatrics — 4th Edition. Edited by Douglas Gairdner and David HullTroubled Children in a Troubled World. Edith BuxbaumThe Biochemistry of Development. Edited by Philip H. Benso

ISSN:1034-4810    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1971.tb01061.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

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