The UK Renal Registry currently collects information on UK children with kidney failure requiring long-term kidney replacement therapy (KRT), which supports disease surveillance and auditing of care ...

Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa Correspondence to: Dr M Hatherill, Institute of Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's ...

PURPOSE Comparison of bone age assessed using either the “atlas matching” method of Greulich and Pyle or the “point scoring system” of Tanner and Whitehouse (TW2). MATERIALS AND METHODS 362 ...

Objective To determine the safety of ciprofloxacin in paediatric patients in relation to arthropathy, any other adverse events (AEs) and drug interactions. Methods A systematic search of MEDLINE, ...

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Dalhousie University and IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Correspondence to: Dr W A Stewart, Pediatric Neurology Fellow, ...

Clinical, immunological, and intestinal studies on 26 children with IgA deficiency in the age range 2 to 16 years are reported. 9 of these children were suffering from autoimmune disease, namely ...

Correspondence to Dr Ishaq Abu-Arafeh, Paediatric Neurosciences Unit, Royal Hospital for Children, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK; iabu-arafeh{at}nhs.net Headache is a common complaint in ...

Background Restrictive eating disorders in young people are increasingly requiring admission to the hospital and can be a challenge to manage on acute general paediatric wards. Methods We have ...

Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to Dr Claire Irving, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Freeman Road, Newcastle upon ...

Clear sex differences exist in asthma and atopy with a preponderance of boys before puberty. There is a reversal of this sex ratio during puberty with girls having more asthma and atopy throughout the ...

1 Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to ...

Object Tics are involuntary, sudden, rapid, recurrent, stereotyped motor movements or phonic productions that involve discrete muscle groups. Pharmacological treatment was considered as the most ...