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- Notes from the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, Inc
- Editorials
- Medical progress
- Original articles
- Special article
- Clinical and laboratory observations
- Current best evidence
- Insights
- Letters
- Reader services
Notes from the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, Inc
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PROTECTION OF PEDIATRIC RESEARCH SUBJECTS 285
Terence R. Flotte, MD, Barbara Frentzen, ARNP, MSN, Margaret R. Humphries, RN, and Arlan L. Rosenbloom, MD, Gainesville, Florida
Editorials
TRANSFUSION THRESHOLDS FOR PRETERM INFANTS: HOW LOW SHOULD WE GO? 287
Edward F. Bell, MD, Iowa City, Iowa
VOLUME CONTROL: A LOGICAL SOLUTION TO VOLUTRAUMA? 290
Peter G. Davis, MD, FRACP, and Colin J. Morley, MD, Melbourne, Australia
REVISITING STEROIDS IN THE PRIMARY TREATMENT OF ACUTE KAWASAKI DISEASE 291
Jane C. Burns, MD, La Jolla, California
THE TOLL OF POVERTY: NO RESPITE EVEN IN SLEEP 293
Carole L. Marcus, MBBCh, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Medical progress
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PATHOGENESIS AND TREATMENT OF CELIAC DISEASE 295
David Branski, MD, Alessio Fasano, MD, and Riccardo Troncone, MD, Jerusalem, Israel, Baltimore, Maryland, and Naples, Italy
Original articles
THE PREMATURE INFANTS IN NEED OF TRANSFUSION (PINT) STUDY: A RANDOMIZED, CONTROLLED TRIAL OF A RESTRICTIVE (LOW) VERSUS LIBERAL (HIGH) TRANSFUSION THRESHOLD FOR EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS 301
Haresh Kirpalani, MSc, FRCP(UK), Robin K. Whyte, MB, FRCP(C), Chad Andersen, MBBS, FRACP, Elizabeth V. Asztalos, MSc, FRCP(C), Nancy Heddle, MSc, Morris A. Blajchman, MD, FRCP(C), Abraham Peliowski, MD, FRCP(C), Angel Rios, MD, Meena LaCorte, MD, Robert Connelly, MD, FRCP(C), Keith Barrington, MB, FRCP(C), Robin S. Roberts, M.Tech, for the PINT Investigators, Hamilton, Toronto, and Kingston, Ontario, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Edmonton, Alberta, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and Albany and Brooklyn, New York
MECHANICAL VENTILATION OF VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS: IS VOLUME OR PRESSURE A BETTER TARGET VARIABLE? 308
Jaideep Singh, MD, Sunil K. Sinha, MD, PhD, Paul Clarke, MB, FRCPCH, Steve Byrne, MD, PhD, and Steven M. Donn, MD, Middlesbrough and Salford, United Kingdom, and Ann Arbor, Michigan
LIPID ABNORMALITIES ARE PREVALENT IN YOUTH WITH TYPE 1 AND TYPE 2 DIABETES: THE SEARCH FOR DIABETES IN YOUTH STUDY 314
Ann K. Kershnar, MD, Stephen R. Daniels, MD, PhD, Giuseppina Imperatore, MD, PhD, Shana L. Palla, MS, Diana B. Petitti, MD, MPH, David J. Pettitt, MD, Santica Marcovina, PhD, ScD, Lawrence M. Dolan, MD, Richard F. Hamman, MD, DrPH, Angela D. Liese, PhD, Catherine Pihoker, MD, and Beatriz L. Rodriguez, MD, PhD, Pasadena, California, Cincinnati, Ohio, Atlanta, Georgia, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Seattle, Washington, Denver, Colorado, Columbia, South Carolina, and Honolulu, Hawaii
CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION, SERUM LIPIDS, LIPOPROTEINS, AND PERIPHERAL INFLAMMATORY MARKERS IN ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES 320
Peter Gunczler, MD, Roberto Lanes, MD, Arlette Soros, MD, Livia Verdu, RN, Yolanda Ramon, MSc, Beatriz Guevara, MSc, and Nusen Beer, MD, Caracas, Venezuela
GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY, LOW LEVELS OF ADIPONECTIN, AND UNFAVORABLE PLASMA LIPID AND LIPOPROTEINS 324
Roberto Lanes, MD, Arlette Soros, MD, Peter Gunczler, MD, Mariela Paoli, MD, Eduardo Carrillo, MD, Omar Villaroel, MSc, and Anselmo Palacios, MD, Merida and Caracas, Venezuela
MATERNAL PROMPTS TO EAT, CHILD COMPLIANCE, AND MOTHER AND CHILD WEIGHT STATUS 330
Julie C. Lumeng, MD, and Lori M. Burke, BS, Ann Arbor, Michigan
A MULTICENTER PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF CORTICOSTEROIDS IN PRIMARY THERAPY FOR KAWASAKI DISEASE: CLINICAL COURSE AND CORONARY ARTERY OUTCOME 336
Yoshinari Inoue, MD, Yasunori Okada, MD, Makoto Shinohara, MD, Tohru Kobayashi, MD, Tomio Kobayashi, MD, Takeshi Tomomasa, MD, Kazuo Takeuchi, MD, MPH, and Akihiro Morikawa, MD, for the Gunma Kawasaki Disease Study Group, Gunma, Japan
NEIGHBORHOOD DISADVANTAGE AS A RISK FACTOR FOR PEDIATRIC OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA 342
James C. Spilsbury, PhD, Amy Storfer-Isser, MS, H. Lester Kirchner, PhD, Lisa Nelson, MPA, Carol L. Rosen, MD, Dennis Drotar, PhD, and Susan Redline, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
QUALITY OF LIFE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH NEUROFIBROMATOSIS TYPE 1 348
Anna Graf, MA, Markus A. Landolt, PhD, Andrea Capone Mori, MD, and Eugen Boltshauser, MD, Zurich and Aarau, Switzerland
THE IMPACT OF REALIZED ACCESS TO CARE ON HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE: A TWO-YEAR PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY OF CHILDREN IN THE CALIFORNIA STATE CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM 354
Michael Seid, PhD, James W. Varni, PhD, Lesley Cummings, MPA, and Matthias Schonlau, PhD, Santa Monica and Sacramento, California, and College Station, Texas
50 YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS—AMINOPHYLLINE (THEOPHYLLINE ETHYLENEDIAMINE) POISONING IN CHILDREN 361
Leslie Hendeles, PharmD, Gainesville, Florida
POTENTIAL IMPACT OF NEWBORN SCREENING FOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS ON CHILD SURVIVAL: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND ANALYSIS 362
Scott D. Grosse, PhD, Margaret Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, Owen J. Devine, PhD, HuiChuan J. Lai, PhD, RD, and Philip M. Farrell, MD, PhD, Atlanta, Georgia, Seattle, Washington, and Madison, Wisconsin
PROBIOTICS IN THE PREVENTION OF ANTIBIOTIC-ASSOCIATED DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN: A META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS 367
Hania Szajewska, MD, Marek Ruszczyński, MD, and Andrzej Radzikowski, MD, Warsaw, Poland
HOSPITALIZATION FOR RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS AMONG CALIFORNIA INFANTS: DISPARITIES RELATED TO RACE, INSURANCE, AND GEOGRAPHY 373
Laura Sangaré, MPH, Michael P. Curtis, PhD, and Shabbir Ahmad, DVM, MS, PhD, Seattle, Washington, and Sacramento, California
50 YEARS AGO IN THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS— SOILING IN CHILDREN DUE TO CHRONIC FECAL IMPACTION 377
James G. Lamphear, MD, PhD, and Dean R. Focht, MD, Honolulu, Hawaii
TOPICAL FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE LOTION DOES NOT CAUSE HPA AXIS SUPPRESSION 378
Adelaide A. Hebert, MD, Sheila Fallon Friedlander, MD, and David B. Allen, MD, for the Fluticasone Pediatrics Safety Study Group, Houston Texas, San Diego, California, and Madison, Wisconsin
BONE MINERAL CONTENT AND MINERAL METABOLISM DURING CYCLOSPORINE TREATMENT OF NEPHROTIC SYNDROME 383
Michael Freundlich, MD, Miami, Florida
Special article
PEDIATRIC WORKFORCE: A LOOK AT PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE DATA FROM THE AMERICAN BOARD OF PEDIATRICS 390
Linda A. Althouse, PhD, and James A. Stockman III, MD, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Clinical and laboratory observations
THE BILIARY ATRESIA SPLENIC MALFORMATION SYNDROME: A 28-YEAR SINGLE-CENTER RETROSPECTIVE STUDY 393
Mark Davenport, ChM, FRCS, Sarah A. Tizzard, RN, James Underhill, PhD, Giorgina Mieli-Vergani, PhD, FRCP, Bernard Portmann, FRCPath, and Nedim Hadžić, FRCP, London, United Kingdom
MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATORY CHAIN DEFICIENCIES EXPRESSING THE ENZYMATIC DEFICIENCY IN THE HEPATIC TISSUE: A STUDY OF 31 PATIENTS 401
Angels Garcia-Cazorla, MD, PhD, Pascale De Lonlay, MD, PhD, Pierre Rustin, PhD, Dominique Chretien, PhD, Guy Touati, MD, Daniel Rabier, PhD, Abdel Slama, PhD, and Jean Marie Saudubray, MD, Paris, France
PSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISM: A RARE CAUSE OF BILATERAL SLIPPED CAPITAL FEMORAL EPIPHYSIS 406
Chhavi Agarwal, MD, MRCP, Robert Seigle, MD, Sanjeev Agarwal, MD, MS, MCh Orth, John P. Bilezikian, MD, Joshua E. Hyman, MD, and Sharon E. Oberfield, MD, New York and East Meadow, New York
SMITH-MAGENIS SYNDROME: A CASE REPORT OF IMPROVED SLEEP AFTER TREATMENT WITH β1-ADRENERGIC ANTAGONISTS AND MELATONIN 409
Rosario Carpizo, MD, PhD, Ángeles Martínez, MD, Dolores Mediavilla, MD, PhD, Mónica González, MD, Araceli Abad, MD, and Emilio J. Sánchez-Barceló, MD, PhD, Santander, Spain
BRACHIAL ARTERY ANEURYSMS IN MENKES DISEASE 412
Sarah C. Godwin, BA, Thomas Shawker, MD, Benjamin Chang, MD, and Stephen G. Kaler, MD, Bethesda, Maryland, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
TREATMENT OF FAMILIAL MALE-LIMITED PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY WITH BICALUTAMIDE AND ANASTROZOLE 416
Nerissa C. Kreher, MD, Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, MD, Paul Delameter, MD, Anatoly Tiulpakov, MD, and Ze’ev Hochberg, MD, DSc, Indianapolis, Indiana, Toledo, Ohio, Moscow, Russia, and Haifa, Israel
Current best evidence
CLINICAL RESEARCH ABSTRACTS FOR PEDIATRICIANS 421
Insights
AN UNUSUAL CASE OF BIPHASIC STRIDOR IN AN INFANT: SUPRASTERNAL BRONCHOGENIC CYST 424
Philip Lai, MD, Lily H.P. Nguyen, MD, FRCSC, Peter C.W. Kim, MD, PhD, FRCSC, and Paolo Campisi, MD, FRCSC, FAAP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NONCHYLOUS LYMPHATIC ASCITES AFTER APPENDECTOMY 425
Eva Landmann, MD, Wigbert Rau, MD, Maria Vollerthun, MD, Ludwig Gortner, MD, and Stefan Alexander Wudy, MD, Giessen, Germany
Letters
INFLIXIMAB FOR KAWASAKI SYNDROME 426
Tsutomu Saji, MD, and Yasushi Kemmotsu, MD, Tokyo, Japan
REPLY 426
Jane C. Burns, MD, La Jolla, California
CARD15/NOD2 MUTATIONS ARE NOT RELATED TO ABDOMINAL PFAPA 427
M. Maschio, MD, C. Oretti, MD, G. Ventura, MD, A. Pontillo, PhD, and Alberto Tommasini, Trieste, Italy
ADDITIONAL SENSITIVITY DATA FOR NEWBORN SCREENING FOR CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA IN WISCONSIN 427
Todd S. Varness, MD, MPH, David B. Allen, MD, and Gary L. Hoffman, BS, Madison, Wisconsin
LEAD POISONING TREATMENT 428
Bryan L. Burke, Jr., MD, FAAP, Little Rock, Arkansas
REPLY 428
Katarzyna Kordas, PhD, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, PhD, Jorge L. Rosado, PhD, and Patricia López, Ithaca, New York, and Queretaro and Mexico City, Mexico
QUANTITATIVE BONE ANALYSIS IN CHILDREN: CURRENT METHODS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 429
Zvi Zadik, MD, Rehovot, Israel
Prof Wojciech Pluskiewicz, MD, PhD, and Zenon Halaba, MD, Zabrze, Poland 430
REPLY 431
Bonny Specker, PhD, and Ekhard Schoenau, MD, Brookings, South Dakota, and Cologne, Germany
Reader services
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PII: S0022-3476(06)00734-7
doi:10.1016/S0022-3476(06)00734-7
