Objective Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency is an inherited adrenal steroid synthesis ...

In this review, we provide a state of the art of liver transplantation in children, as the procedure is now carried out for more than 30 years and most of our paediatric colleagues are managing these ...

Aims: To investigate whether weight category (underweight, average weight, overweight, and obese) at age 7.5 predicts bullying involvement at 8.5 years. Models were tested separately for boys and ...

Background National and international guidelines recommend that psychosocial support should be a key component of the care offered to children and adolescents experiencing gender ...

Charts are presented which give centile standards for boys' and girls' heights at ages 2 to 9 when parents' height is allowed for. Mid-parent height is used (i.e. the average of father's and mother's ...

AIMS To evaluate the effects of discontinuing growth hormone (GH) treatment on energy expenditure and body composition, which might help predict those most likely to benefit from early reintroduction ...

Objectives Babies born to mothers living in more deprived areas are at a higher risk of dying during the neonatal period.1 Pre-term and unwell term babies are cared for in neonatal intensive units ...

Background We sought to measure the diagnostic accuracy of D-dimer in children with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE). Methods We queried our electronic medical record for quantitative D-dimer values ...

The most recent in a series of dangerous social media trends has seen children ingesting large quantities of nutmeg in an attempt to gain a natural ‘high’. Over the past 20 years, there has been a ...

Aims Up to 2% of all pregnancies are conceived by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the UK. IVF methodologies include fresh and frozen-thawed embryo transfer. Neonates conceived by frozen-thawed IVF are ...

Objectives Housing conditions and ease of access to nutritious food are both well-established social determinants of health.1 The RCPCH identified poverty as indisputably influential on children’s ...

Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt1 The pursuit of patient safety is a key component of the wider endeavour to improve quality of healthcare ...