Isacson, M., Noah, Z., Faber, J., Herishano, Y., and Gottfried, L. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 954. Use of 5-fluorocytosine in systemic candidiasis in infancy. Three cases of systemic candidiasis were successfully treated with 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC), an antifungal agent. The fungaemia developed during continuous intravenous alimentation for intestinal malabsorption. The diagn...

BACKGROUND The presence of clinical signs have implications for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the inter-observer agreement of clinical signs in pre-school children presenting to primary care. METHODS A nested study comparing two clinical assessments within a prospective cohort of 256 pre-school children with acute cough recruited from eigh...

One-third of 327 newborn infants referred to the perinatal service of the Hospital for Sick Children during 1975 with suspected cardiopulmonary disorders proved to have nonstructural heart disease. Most of these were term infants with transient tachypnoea or cyanosis who recovered. A history of fetal distress or difficult delivery was commonly associated. The haemodynamic disorder for most was ...

To cite: Iriyama H, Kato M, Nogami M, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014207677 DESCRIPTION We present the case of an 89-year-old tiny woman who presented with a 2-day history of fever. Her medical history included gallbladder stones, hypertension, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis and dementia. Vital signs showed an elevated temperature o...

In three cases of pulmonary tuberculosis associated with the adult respiratory distress syndrome the clinical features, which were similar to those of patients with miliary tuberculosis and adult respiratory distress syndrome, included a history of cough, fever, and dyspnoea on effort, and the physical signs of fever, tachypnoea, pulmonary adventitious sounds, tachycardia, and hepatomegaly. In ...

This case study reports on two infants, 5 and 6 months of age, respectively, with chronic interstitial lung disease who presented with failure to thrive, tachypnoea, rales and mild hypoxaemia. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was detected by in situ hybridization in lung biopsy specimens and by EBV-deoxyribonucleic acid-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid in one patien...

ABSTRACT A 14-month-old female Texel sheep that came from a herd made up of 19 animals showed haemoglobinuria, apathy, and anorexia, died two days after the start clinical signals. The remained in natural grassland, where trailers were repaired, multiple copper wires deposited on pasture. animal had tachycardia, tachypnoea, pale mucous membranes, groaning pain abdominal palpation, circling, hea...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the national rate of early-term live births in Brazil and to evaluate the effect of birth at 37 and 38 weeks' gestation, as compared with 39 and 40 weeks' gestation on infant outcomes according to precursors of birth and the existence of maternal/fetal medical conditions. DESIGN National perinatal population-based cohort study. SETTING 266 maternity services located i...

Background: Community-acquired pneumonia is the leading cause of mortality under-five children in developing countries, including India. Based on burden CAP, India among top five countries and has over 23% global cases. Accurate, reliable, rapid determination etiology childhood CAP important because it would influence individual treatment decisions, antibiotic policy community, also rational im...

1. The ventilation and cardiac frequency during progressive exercise and the respiratory responses to breathing carbon dioxide have been measured in 33 female patients with mitral stenosis and in 31 control subjects. Compared with the control subjects, the patients' exercise ventilation and cardiac frequency were increased; the exercise tidal volume at standard minute volume, the vital capacity...