{"title":"Neurologic complications of Staphylococcus aureus septicaemia in childhood.","authors":"E Shahar, Z Barzilay, M Frand","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two previously healthy children experienced serious neurologic complications in the course of severe S. aureus septicaemia. The first patient developed right hemiparesis and stupor due to a left frontal abscess. He recovered completely following surgery. The second patient, admitted with signs of meningeal infection, developed acute bacterial endocarditis followed by late cerebral embolism causing coma and death. In both patients, cerebral CT was a useful rapid diagnostic acid. When the S. aureus septicaemic patient develops acute bacterial endocarditis, regardless of his haemodynamic state, early valve replacement may prevent harmful cerebral embolic phenomena.</p>","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"22 3","pages":"223-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18316910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimental round window membrane rupture.","authors":"E Miriszlai","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An increase of perilymphatic fluid pressure was found to be an important factor in the aetiology of round window membrane rupture. The critical pressure causing membrane rupture, as determined in anaesthetized cats, was in the range of 10-30 mm Hg (mean, 23.4 +/- 17.1). This value was compared to the pressure increases caused by thoracic and abdominal compression, cervical strangulation, forced Trendelenburg position, coughing, and sneezing.</p>","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"22 1-2","pages":"77-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18282569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G Nyerges, I Zimonyi, G Nyerges, Z Mészner, A Marosi
{"title":"Efficiency of tetanus toxoid booster in leukaemic children.","authors":"G Nyerges, I Zimonyi, G Nyerges, Z Mészner, A Marosi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"22 3","pages":"237-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17335217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Birth prevalence of five congenital abnormalities of medium frequency in Budapest.","authors":"A Czeizel, M Vitéz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Budapest, 1970-1977, the birth prevalence of isolated renal agenesis, exomphalos-omphalocele, anal atresia, tracheo-oesophageal fistula with oesophageal atresia or stenosis, and diaphragmatic hernia was 0.23, 0.20, 0.18, 0.18 and 0.16, respectively, per 1000 total births. The birth prevalences of multiple abnormalities which were sharply distinguished from the isolated cases were in the order of the above-mentioned abnormalities 0.13, 0.19, 0.18, 0.14 and 0.19, respectively, per 1000 total births. The last ones are partly associations (e.g. VAcTERL) and partly random combinations. The rates of the capital Budapest might be representative for the birth prevalences of these congenital abnormalities in Hungary in the 1970's.</p>","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"22 4","pages":"299-308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18352752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Involvement of tendons in inherited diseases.","authors":"L Józsa, A Réffy, B J Bálint, Z Demel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"22 4","pages":"293-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17858002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F Varga, E Sulyok, M Németh, I Tényi, I F Csaba, E Györi
{"title":"Activity of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in full-term newborn infants during the first week of life.","authors":"F Varga, E Sulyok, M Németh, I Tényi, I F Csaba, E Györi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study was performed in 7 healthy full-term newborn infants with mean birth weight of 3130 g (range, 2650-2850 g) and a mean gestational age of 38.8 weeks (range, 37-41 weeks) to investigate the postnatal changes of plasma renin activity (PRA), plasma aldosterone concentration (PA) and urinary aldosterone excretion (UAE) in relation to electrolyte balance. PRA, PA and UAE fell significantly from their initially high values of 28.36 +/- 3.6 ng/ml/hr 1.5 +/- 3 ng/ml and 7.1 +/- 1.9 microgram/day on the first day to 6.84 +/- 2.9 ng/ml/hr (p less than 0.01), 0.71 +/- 0.1 ng/ml (p less than 0.01) and 5.5 +/- 1.6 microgram/day (p less than 0.05), respectively, on the 5th day. No significant correlation was found between either PRA and PA or PA and UAE. PRA and UAE showed a significant negative correlation with dietary sodium intake, the other parameters of sodium and potassium homeostasis, however, had no apparent influence on the activity of RAAS. The initial high level and the rapid postnatal decline in RAAS activity has been attributed to perinatal stress imposed by labour and delivery and not to the changes in sodium or potassium balance in the early days of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"22 1-2","pages":"123-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18071180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Congenital diaphragmatic hernia in the newborn: postoperative CPAP treatment.","authors":"T L Verebély, E J Kontor, B Büky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"22 1-2","pages":"131-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18071181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virus-specific reverse transcriptase in acute leukaemia.","authors":"S Kiss, D Schuler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"22 1-2","pages":"33-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17233927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low grade intravascular coagulation in rhabdomyosarcoma (a fibrinogen kinetic study in vivo).","authors":"B Goldschmidt, R Koós","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"22 1-2","pages":"19-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18282560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variation in number of infant deaths by day of week in one county during the ten-year-period 1969-1978.","authors":"P Cholnoky, E Balogh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"22 1-2","pages":"5-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18282566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}