Weight velocities of 136 infants who died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were compared with those of 136 controls matched for sex, birth weight, and type of feeding. It was found that the SIDS infants gained weight more slowly overall and that the differences were significantly different for infants who were not breast fed in the last two weeks in which it was possible to estimate the...

BACKGROUND In adults, tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) is a recommended component of routine echocardiography. However, TDI velocities are less accepted in pediatrics, due to their strong variability and age dependence in children. This study examines the distribution of myocardial tissue Doppler velocities in healthy children to assess the effect of age with cardiac growth on the various echocardi...

Pivalic acid dendrites grown and observed as part of the USMP-4 isothermal dendritic growth experiment aboard the space shuttle Columbia show an initial transient followed by an accelerating tip growth that may approach a constant growth rate. The mechanism responsible for this behavior is not as yet clear and may be due to experimental factors such as the long-range thermal interactions betwee...

Accurate assessment of gestational age, fetal growth, and the detection of fetal and placental abnormalities are major benefits of sonography. Color Doppler can be used to assist in the identification of vascular architecture, detection of vascular pathology and visualization of blood flow changes associated with physiologic processes and disease states. The clinical applications of obstetrical...

The dendritic growth velocity of ice crystals is measured at undercooking levels between 5 -8.5 K using a unique apparatus. The result shows that the measured velocities are smaller than the theoretical prtiiction based on the thermal diffusion theory with the scaling constant, o = 0.025, which has been shown to agree with the experimental results at lower undercooking levels between 0.4 2.5 K....

In a community based study, height and weight increments of 441 Nepali children aged 0-6 years were measured before harvest and six months later and compared with centile standards derived from American children. Low mean growth velocities for height were found only in children under 2 years of age, and for weight during the first 18 months. The mean height for age standard deviation score for ...

Background: Growth assessment based on the WHO child growth velocity standards can potentially be used to predict adverse health outcomes. Nevertheless, there are very few studies on growth velocity to predict mortality. Objectives: We aimed to determine the ability of various growth velocity measures to predict child death within 3 mo and to compare it with those of attained growth measures. D...

Recombinant human growth hormone (hGH) was given for 6 months or longer to 68 patients with GH deficiency, 6 with Turner's syndrome and 5 with achondroplasia, during 1986-1994 in a prospective study. The total weekly administered dose of GH was 0.6 u/kg. By random sampling, 29 of 68 GH deficient patients (42.6%) received twice weekly (2 iw) intramuscular (im) injections, 17 (25%) received ...