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Article Outline
- Notes from the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, Inc
- Editorials
- Special article
- Medical progress
- Original articles
- Invited commentary
- Clinical and laboratory observations
- Insights
- Current best evidence
- Letters
- Reader services
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
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
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
Medical progress
Resolving design problems in equivalency trials 12
Matthew P. Fox, MPH, and LeAnne M. Fox, MD, MPH, Boston, Massachusetts
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
Invited commentary
Pay-for-performance: An overview for pediatrics 120
Gary L. Freed, MD, MPH, and Rebecca L. Uren, MHSA, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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
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
Current best evidence
Clinical Research Abstracts for Pediatricians 140
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
Reader services
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