The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 148, Issue 3 , Pages A6-A10, March 2006

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VALUE OF A COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS ROTATION FOR RESIDENTS 287

Earnestine Willis, MD, MPH, Tifany Frazer, MPH, and Robert M. Kliegman, MD

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Editorials 

CARDIOVASCULAR SUPPORT IN THE PRETERM: TREATMENTS IN SEARCH OF INDICATIONS 289

K. J. Barrington, MB, ChB, E. M. Dempsey, MB, BCh, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

EARLY POSTNATAL ADMINISTRATION OF INTRAVENOUS AMINO ACIDS TO PRETERM, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS 291

William W. Hay, Jr, MD, and Patti J. Thureen, MD, Denver and Aurora, Colorado

RITONAVIR AND FLUTICASONE: BEWARE OF THIS POTENTIALLY FATAL COMBINATION 294

Albert Martin Li, MB, Shatin, Hong Kong

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Invited commentary 

HOSPITALISTS IN CHILDREN’S HOSPITALS: WHAT WE KNOW NOW AND WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW 296

Gary L. Freed, MD, MPH, and Rebecca L. Uren, MHSA, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Original articles 

EARLY PROVISION OF PARENTERAL AMINO ACIDS IN EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS: RELATION TO GROWTH AND NEURODEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOME 300

Brenda B. Poindexter, MD, MS, John C. Langer, MSc, Anna M. Dusick, MD, and Richard A. Ehrenkranz, MD,

New Haven, Connecticut

PILOT STUDY OF MILRINONE FOR LOW SYSTEMIC BLOOD FLOW IN VERY PRETERM INFANTS 306

Mary Paradisis, FRACP, Nick Evans, DM, MRCPCH, Martin Kluckow, FRACP, PhD, David Osborn, FRACP, and Andrew J. McLachlan, PhD, Camperdown, St Leonards, and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

LONGITUDINAL INFLUENCE OF MOTHER’S CHILD-FEEDING PRACTICES ON ADIPOSITY IN CHILDREN 314

Donna Spruijt-Metz, MFA, PhD, Chaoyang Li, PhD, Elisabeth Cohen, Leann Birch, PhD, and Michael Goran, PhD, University Park, Pennsylvania 50 YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS—THE MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY: THE COLUMBIA MENTAL MATURITY SCALE 320

Pasquale J. Accardo, MD, Richmond, Virginia

LEFT ATRIAL DIAMETERS IN OVERWEIGHT CHILDREN WITH NORMAL BLOOD PRESSURE 321

Jeong Jin Yu, MD, Hee Hyun Yeom, MD, Sochung Chung, MD, Youngshin Park, MD, and Dong Hwan Lee, MD, Seoul, Korea 50 YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS—CHRONIC ULCERATIVE COLITIS IN CHILDHOOD 325

M. Susan Moyer, MD, Cincinnati, Ohio

CASE-CONTROL STUDY OF SYMPTOMS AND NEONATAL OUTCOME OF HUMAN MILK–TRANSMITTED CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION IN PREMATURE INFANTS 326

Patrick Neuberger, MD, Klaus Hamprecht, MD, PhD, Maithias Vochem, MD, Jens Maschmann, MD, Christian P. Speer, MD, FRCPE, Gerhard Jahn, MD, Christian F. Poets, MD, and Rangmar Goelz, MD, Tuebingen, Germany

HEARING LOSS IN CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION BORN TO MOTHERS WITH PREEXISTING IMMUNITY 332

Shannon A. Ross, MD, Karen B. Fowler, DrPH, Guha Ashrith, MD, Sergio Stagno, MD, William J. Britt, MD, Robert F. Pass, MD, and Suresh B. Boppana, MD, Birmingham, Alabama

NEURAL PROGENITORS POPULATE THE CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OF PRETERM PATIENTS WITH HYDROCEPHALUS 337

Richard C. Krueger, Jr, MD, PhD, Hao Wu, MD, Mandana Zandian, MD, Moise Danielpour, MD, Peter Kabos, MD, John S. Yu, MD, and Yi E. Sun, MD, Los Angeles, California

Sociocultural factors that affect pregnancy outcomes in two dissimilar immigrant groups in the United States 341

Ashima Madan, MD, Latha Palaniappan, MD, Guido Urizar, PhD, Yun Wang, MS, Stephen P. Fortmann, MD, and Jeffrey B. Gould, MD, Stanford, California

RETT SYNDROME IN AUSTRALIA: A REVIEW OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGY 347

Crystal L. Laurvick, MPH, Nicholas de Klerk, BSc, PhD, Carol Bower, MBBS, MSc, PhD, FAFPHM, John Christodoulou, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, ARCPA, David Ravine, MBBS, DM, FRACP, MRCPath, FRACPA, Carolyn Ellaway, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, Sarah Williamson, BSc, and Helen Leonard, MBChB, MPH, Perth, Western Australia, and Sydney, New South Wales Australia

THE BURDEN OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION IN CHILDREN: ESTIMATED DIRECT MEDICAL COSTS OVER A 10-YEAR PERIOD 353

Ravi Jhaveri, MD, William Grant, PhD, Teresa L. Kauf, PhD, and John McHutchison, MD, Durham, North Carolina

THE IMPACT OF PEDIATRIC TRAUMA IN THE AMISH COMMUNITY 359

Melissa A. Vitale, MD, Susan Rzucidlo, RN, Michele L. Shaffer, PhD, Gary D. Ceneviva, MD, and Neal J. Thomas, MD, MSc, Hershey, Pennsylvania 50 YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS—THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA IN MEASLES 365

Cindy E. Neunert, MD, Dallas, Texas

CHARACTERISTICS AT DIAGNOSIS OF TYPE 1 DIABETES IN CHILDREN YOUNGER THAN 6 YEARS 366

Maryanne Quinn, MD, Amy Fleischman, MD, MMSc, Bernard Rosner, PhD, Daniel J. Nigrin, MD, MS and Joseph I. Wolfsdorf, MB, BCh, Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF PLASMA N-TERMINAL PRO-BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE IN CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS AND OPEN-HEART SURGERY 372

Peter Gessler, MD, Walter Knirsch, MD, Bernhard Schmitt, MD, Valentin Rousson and Arnold von Eckardstein, MD, Zurich, Switzerland

ONCE-DAILY CICLESONIDE IN CHILDREN: EFFICACY AND SAFETY IN ASTHMA 377

Erwin W. Gelfand, MD, John W. Georgitis, MD, Michael Noonan, MD, and Michael E. Ruff, MD, Denver, Colorado, Kernersville, North Carolina, Portland, Oregon, and Dallas, Texas

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Special article 

PEDIATRIC WORKFORCE: A LOOK AT PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY DATA FROM THE AMERICAN BOARD OF PEDIATRICS 384

Linda A. Althouse, PhD and James A. Stockman III, MD, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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Clinical and laboratory observations 

CUSHING SYNDROME WITH SECONDARY ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY FROM CONCOMITANT THERAPY WITH RITONAVIR AND FLUTICASONE 386

Susan R. Johnson, MS, ARNP-C, Alicia A. Marion, MS, ARNP, Teri Vrchoticky, PharmD, Patricia J. Emmanuel, MD, and Jorge Lujan-Zilbermann, MD, MS, St. Petersburg, Florida

FAILURE TO ERADICATE HIV DESPITE FULLY SUCCESSFUL HAART INITIATED IN THE FIRST DAYS OF LIFE 389

Alessandra Viganò, MD, Daria Trabattoni, PhD, Laura Schneider, MD, Francesco Ottaviani, MD, Antonia Aliffi, MD, Erika Longhi, PhD, Stefano Rusconi, MD, and Mario Clerici, MD, Milan, Italy

DOWN SYNDROME AND COMPLETE TRACHEAL RINGS 392

Miguel Neil C. Bravo, MD, Ajay Kaul, MD, Michael J. Rutter, MD, and Ravindhra G. Elluru, MD, PhD, Cincinnati, Ohio

SEVERE LIVER DISEASE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD DUE TO FIBRINOGEN STORAGE AND DE NOVO GAMMA375ARG→TRP GENE MUTATION 396

Paola Francalanci, MD, Filippo M. Santorelli, MD, Ilaria Talini, MD, Renata Boldrini, MD, Rita Devito, MD, Francesca Diomedi Camassei, MD, PhD, Giuseppe Maggiore, MD, and Francesco Callea, MD, PhD, Rome and Pisa, Italy

CEREBRAL INFARCTION AFTER HIGH-DOSE INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN THERAPY FOR KAWASAKI DISEASE 399

Yasunori Wada, MD, Atsushi Kamei, MD, PHD, Yukiharu Fujii, MD, Ken Ishikawa, MD, PHD, and Shoichi Chida, MD, PHD, Iwate, Japan

EFFECT OF TOPICAL 1.25% POVIDONE-IODINE EYEDROPS USED FOR PROPHYLAXIS OF OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM ON RENAL IODINE EXCRETION AND THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE LEVEL 401

Ralph Richter, MD, Harald Below, PhD, Ingrid Kadow, MD, Axel Kramer, MD, Cornelia Müller, PhD, and Christoph Fusch, MD, Greifswald, Germany

A NOVEL FORM OF NON-X-LINKED HYPERI GM ASSOCIATED WITH GROWTH AND PUBERTAL DISTURBANCES AND WITH LYMPHOMA DEVELOPMENT 404

Viviana Moschese, MD, PhD, Jiri Lintzman, MD, Francesco Callea, MD, Loredana Chini, MD, Rita Devito, MD, Rita Carsetti, MD, PhD, Silvia Di Cesare, BD, Frédéric Geissman, MD, Nicole Brousse, MD, PhD, Paolo Rossi, MD, and Anne Durandy, BD, PhD, Rome, Italy, The Czech Republic, Holy City, Italy, and Paris, France

CUTANEOUS LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS IN A CHILD WITH INTERLEUKIN-12 RECEPTOR BETA-1 DEFICIENCY 407

Necil Kutukculer, MD, Ferah Genel, MD, Guzide Aksu, MD, Bulent Karapinar, MD, Can Ozturk, MD, Cengiz Cavusoglu, MD, Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD, and Claire Fieschi, MD, PhD, Izmir, Turkey, and Paris, France

PHENOTYPIC SPECTRUM OF CHARGE SYNDROME WITH CHD7 MUTATIONS 410

Michihiko Aramaki, MD, Toru Udaka, MS, Rika Kosaki, MD, Yoshio Makita, MD, Nobuhiko Okamoto, MD, Hiroshi Yoshihashi, MD, Hirotaka Oki, MD, Kenji Nanao, MD, Nobuko Moriyama, MD, Shozo Oku, MD, Tomonobu Hasegawa, MD, Takao Takahashi, MD, Yoshimitsu Fukushima, MD, Hiroshi Kawame, MD, and Kenjiro Kosaki, MD, Tokyo, Asahikawa, Osaka, Kanagawa, Ibaraki, Kagoshima and Nagano, Japan

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Insights 

HALLERMANN-STREIFF SYNDROME: THOSE ARE NOT SUPERNUMERARY TEETH 415

Byung-Duk Ahn, DDS, Jiang-Wook Kim, DDS, MSD, PhD, Seoul, Korea

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Current best evidence 

CLINICAL RESEARCH ABSTRACTS FOR PEDIATRICIANS 416

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Letters 

THE EGG OR THE CHICKEN? SHOULD GOOD COMPLIANCE TO MULTI-INJECTION INSULIN THERAPY BE A CRITERION FOR INSULIN PUMP THERAPY, OR DOES INSULIN PUMP THERAPY IMPROVE COMPLIANCE? 421

Dario Iafusco, MD, Santino Confetto, MD, Francesco Prisco, MD, PhD, Fortunato Lombardo, MD, Giusy Salzano, MD, Filippo De Luca, MD, PhD

Naples and Messina Italy

REPLY 421

Linda A. DiMeglio, MD, MPH, Tina M. Pottorff, RN, CDE, Lisa France, RN, and Erica A. Eugster, MD,

Indianapolis, IN

TESTICULAR MICROLITHIASIS AND MCCUNE-ALBRIGHT SYNDROME 422

Senay Savas Erdeve, MD, Hakan Balta, MD, Zeynep Balta, MD, Yildiz Dallar, MD, Ankara, Turkey

REPLY 422

Malgorzata Wasniewska, MD, PhD, Filippo De Luca, MD, Giuseppe Crisafulli, MD, Mariella Valenzise, MD, PhD, Silvano Bertelloni, MD, Giovanna Weber, MD, Patrizia Matarazzo, MD, Roberto Lala, MD, Messina, Pisa, Turin and Milan, Italy

CHRONIC IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENTIC PURPURA IN CHILDREN: ASSESSMENT OF RITUXIMAB TREATMENT 423

Tillmann Taube, MD, Arend von Stackelberg, MD, Ursula Schulte-Overberg, MD, Günter Henze, Prof, Hansjörg Schmid, MD, Harald Reinhard, MD, Berlin, Hannover and Homburg, Germany 423

Ali Bay, MD, Ahmet Faik Oner, Van, Turkey

REPLY 424

Julie Wang, MD, James B. Bussel, MD, New York, NY

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doi:10.1016/S0022-3476(06)00196-X

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 148, Issue 3 , Pages A6-A10, March 2006