The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 149, Issue 1 , Pages A4-A8, July 2006

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Notes from the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, Inc 

Making pediatrics residency programs family friendly: Views along the professional educational continuum 1

Theodore C. Sectish, MD, Abby R. Rosenberg, MD, Natalie M. Pageler, MD, Lisa J. Chamberlain, MD, MPH, Anthony Burgos, MD, MPH, and Elizabeth Stuart, MD, MSEd, Stanford, California

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Editorials 

The outcomes of sickle cell disease in adulthood are clear, but the origins and progression of sickle cell anemia-induced problems in the heart and lung in childhood are not 3

Jessica H. Boyd, MD, Robert C. Strunk, MD, and Wayne J. Morgan, MD, CM, St. Louis, Missouri, and Tucson, Arizona

Evidence-based medicine and the obesogenic environment 5

Reginald L. Washington, MD, Denver, Colorado

Understanding protein-sensitive hypoglycemia 6

Joseph I. Wolfsdorf, MB, BCh, Boston, Massachusetts

Multiple sclerosis in children 8

Lauren B. Krupp, MD, Stony Brook, New York

Oxidative stress: A potentially important new marker in renal transplantation 9

Ron Shapiro, MD, and Ngoc L. Thai, MD, PhD, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Special article 

Pediatric workforce: A look at pediatric endocrinology data from the american board of pediatrics 10

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

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Medical progress 

Resolving design problems in equivalency trials 12

Matthew P. Fox, MPH, and LeAnne M. Fox, MD, MPH, Boston, Massachusetts

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Original articles 

IMPACT OF ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME ON LUNG FUNCTION OF CHILDREN WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE 17

Karl P. Sylvester, BSc, Richard A. Patey, MRCP, Peter Milligan, MSc, Gerrard F. Rafferty, PhD, Simon Broughton, MRCP, David Rees, MRCP, Swee Lay Thein, FRCP, and Anne Greenough, MD, London, United Kingdom

50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics—The Incidence of Abnormal Blood Levels of Lead in a Metropolitan Pediatric Clinic 22

Kim N. Dietrich, PhD, MA, Cincinnati, Ohio

Right ventricular abnormalities in sickle cell anemia: Evidence of a progressive increase in pulmonary vascular resistance 23

Naveen Qureshi, MD, James J. Joyce, MD, Ning Qi, MD, and Ruey-Kang Chang, MD, MPH, Torrance, Los Angeles, and Oakland, California, and Jacksonville, Florida

N-terminal pro-B–type natriuretic peptide levels in acute versus chronic left ventricular dysfunction 28

Iris Fried, MD, Benjamin Bar-Oz, MD, Zeev Perles, MD, Azaria JJT Rein, MD, Zeev Zonis, MD, and Amiram Nir, MD, Jerusalem and Naharia, Israel

Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between tv viewing and girls’ body mass index, overweight status, and percentage of body fat 32

Kirsten Krahnstoever Davison, PhD, Simon J. Marshall, PhD, and Leann L. Birch, PhD, Albany, New York, San Diego, California, and University Park, Pennsylvania

Daily Physical Activity Related To Body Fat in Children Aged 8-11 Years 38

M. Dencker, MD, O. Thorsson, MD, PhD, M. K. Karlsson, MD, PhD, C. Lindén, MD, S. Eiberg, PhD, P. Wollmer, MD, PhD, and L. B. Andersen, Dr Med Sci, Malmö, Sweden, Oslo, Norway, and Copenhagen, Denmark

Early growth acceleration in girls with idiopathic precocious puberty 43

Anastasios Papadimitriou, MD, Despina Beri, MD, Alexandra Tsialla, MD, Andreas Fretzayas, MD, Fotini Psychou, MD, and Polyxeni Nicolaidou, MD, Athens, Greece

50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics—Hepatitis in Infectious Mononucleosis 46

Sarah S. Long, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Protein-sensitive hypoglycemia without leucine sensitivity in hyperinsulinism caused by KATP channel mutations 47

Shannon H. Fourtner, MD, Charles A. Stanley, MD, and Andrea Kelly, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oxidative stress and post-transplant hypertension in pediatric kidney-transplanted patients 53

Lorenzo A. Calò, MD, PhD, Roberto Dall’Amico, MD, PhD, Elisa Pagnin, PhD, Lara Bertipaglia, PhD, Graziella Zacchello, MD, and Paul A. Davis, PhD, Padova and Vicenza, Italy, and Davis, California

Continued high caseload of rheumatic fever in western pennsylvania: Possible rheumatogenic emm types of streptococcus pyogenes 58

Judith Marie Martin, MD, and Karen A. Barbadora, MT (ASCP), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Comparison of clinical prediction rules for management of pharyngitis in settings with limited resources 64

Christa L. Fischer Walker, PhD, MHS, Anne W. Rimoin, PhD, MPH, H. S. Hamza, MD, and Mark C. Steinhoff, MD, Baltimore, Maryland, Los Angeles, California, and Cairo, Egypt

Serum procalcitonin and other biologic markers to distinguish between bacterial and aseptic meningitis 72

Francois Dubos, MD, Florence Moulin, MD, Vincent Gajdos, MD, Nathalie De Suremain, MD, Sandra Biscardi, MD, Pierre Lebon, MD, Josette Raymond, MD, PhD, Gerard Breart, MD, Dominique Gendrel, MD, and Martin Chalumeau, MD, PhD, Paris, France

Effect Of Maturation Of The Magnitude Of Mechanosensitive And Chemosensitive Reflexes In The Premature Human Esophagus 77

Sudarshan Rao Jadcherla, MD, Raymond G. Hoffmann, PhD, and Reza Shaker, MD, Columbus, Ohio, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in african american males: The importance of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency 83

Michael Kaplan, MB, ChB, Marguerite Herschel, MD, Cathy Hammerman, MD, James D. Hoyer, MD, Gillian Z. Heller, PhD, and David K. Stevenson, MD, Jerusalem and Be’er Sheva, Israel, Chicago, Illinois, Rochester, Minnesota, Sidney, Australia, and Stanford, California

Chinese hamster ovary cell-derived recombinant human acid α-glucosidase in infantile-onset pompe disease 89

Priya Sunil Kishnani, MD, Marc Nicolino, MD, PhD, Thomas Voit, MD, PhD, R. Curtis Rogers, MD, Anne Chun-Hui Tsai, MD, MSc, John Waterson, MD, PhD, Gail E. Herman, MD, PhD, Andreas Amalfitano, DO, PhD, Beth L. Thurberg, MD, PhD, Susan Richards, PhD, Mark Davison, MD, Deyanira Corzo, MD, and YT Chen, MD, PhD, Durham, North Carolina, Lyon, France, Essen, Germany, Greenville, South Carolina, Denver, Colorado, Oakland, California, Columbus, Ohio, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Naarden, the Netherlands

Targeted genomic microarray analysis for identification of chromosome abnormalities in 1500 consecutive clinical cases 98

Lisa G. Shaffer, PhD, Catherine D. Kashork, BS, Reza Saleki, PhD, Emily Rorem, BS, Kyle Sundin, MS, Blake C. Ballif, PhD, and Bassem A. Bejjani, MD, Spokane, Washington

50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics—The Fight Against Infectious Hospitalism in a Children’s Nursery and Hospital 102

Lisa Saiman, MD, MPH, New York, New York

The hollow fiber assay for drug responsiveness in the ewing’s sarcoma family of tumors 103

Esther Marie Bridges, BSc, Michael Charles Bibby, DSc, BSc, and Susan Ann Burchill, PhD, BSc, Bradford and Leeds, United Kingdom

Long-Term Atomoxetine Treatment In Adolescents With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder 112

Timothy E. Wilens, MD, Jeffrey H. Newcorn, MD, Christopher J. Kratochvil, MD, Haitao Gao, PhD, Christine K. Thomason, PhD, Ann K. Rogers, PhD, Peter D. Feldman, PhD, and Louise R. Levine, MD, Boston, Massachusetts, New York, New York, Omaha, Nebraska, and Indianapolis, Indiana

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Invited commentary 

Pay-for-performance: An overview for pediatrics 120

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

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Clinical and laboratory observations 

Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis: Detection of Clinically Silent Lesions by Multimodal Evoked Potentials 125

Daniela Pohl, MD, Kevin Rostasy, MD, Stephanie Treiber-Held, MD, Knut Brockmann, MD, Jutta Gärtner, MD, and Folker Hanefeld, MD, Goettingen, Germany

Pitfalls of neonatal screening for very-long-chain acyl-coa dehydrogenase deficiency using tandem mass spectrometry 128

Ina Schymik, Michaela Liebig, PhD, Martina Mueller, Udo Wendel, MD, Ertan Mayatepek, MD, Arnold W. Strauss, MD, Ronald J.A. Wanders, PhD, and Ute Spiekerkoetter, MD, Duesseldorf, Germany, Nashville, Tennessee, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Infantile kawasaki disease and peripheral gangrene 131

Amy L. Durall, MD, John R. Phillips, MD, Martin E. Weisse, MD, and Charles J. Mullett, MD, PhD, Boston, Massachusetts, and Morgantown, West Virginia

Patients of African Ancestry with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Share a Common Haplotype of PRF1 with a 50DELT Mutation 134

Susan Molleran Lee, BS, Janos Sumegi, MD, PhD, Joyce Villanueva, BS, Yasuhiro Tabata, MD, PhD, Kejian Zhang, MD, Ranajit Chakraborty, PhD, Xiaohua Sheng, BS, Rita Clementi, MD, Genevieve de Saint Basile, MD, PhD, and Alexandra H. Filipovich, MD, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Pavia and Paris, France

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Insights 

Incontinentia pigmenti in an infant 138

Alexander K.C. Leung, MD, C. Pion Kao, MD, and Wm. Lane M. Robson, MD, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Permanent exocrine and endocrine pancreatic deficiency following hemolytic uremic syndrome 139

Ambika Ashraf, MD, Hussein Abdullatif, MD, and Daniel Young, MD, Birmingham, Alabama

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Current best evidence 

Clinical Research Abstracts for Pediatricians 140

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Letters 

Pulmonary prognosis in cystic fibrosis patients with liver disease 144

Martijn G. Slieker, MD, Hubert P.J. van der Doef, MSc, Judith M. Deckers-Kocken, MD, PhD, Cornelis K. van der Ent, MD, PhD, and Roderick H.J. Houwen, MD, PhD, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Reply 144

Billy Bourke, MD, and Marion Rowland, MB, PhD, Dublin, Ireland

Inhaled nitric oxide for acute asthma 145

Salman Mroueh, MD, Beirut, Lebanon

Reply 145

Bradley E. Chipps, MD, and Kevin R. Murphy, MD, Sacramento, California, and Omaha, Nebraska

Congenital cardiovascular malformations are complicated in neuroblastomas identified by mass screening but not by clinical examination in Japan 145

Tomoko Yanai, MD, Daiichiro Hasegawa, MD, PhD, Yoshiyuki Kosaka, MD, PhD, Hideo Misu, MD, PhD, Osamu Mabuchi, MD, PhD, Wakako Ogino, MD, Akira Hayakawa, MD, PhD, Keiichiro Kawasaki, MD, PhD, Yasuhiro Takeshima, MD, PhD, and Masafumi Matsuo, MD, PhD, Kobe, Japan

Reply 146

Rani George, MD, Steven E. Lipshultz, MD, Stuart R. Lipsitz, ScD, Steven D. Colan, MD, and Lisa Diller, MD, Boston, Massachusetts, and Miami, Florida

No definitive recommendation for iNO in preterm infants 146

Michael D. Schreiber, MD, and Jeremy D. Marks, PhD, MD, Chicago, Illinois

Reply 147

Jean-Michel Hascoet, MD, and Isabelle Hamon, MD, PhD, Nancy, France

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doi:10.1016/S0022-3476(06)00508-7

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 149, Issue 1 , Pages A4-A8, July 2006