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

Background and objective Cardiorespiratory polygraphy (CRP) is the predominant technology used to diagnose obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in tertiary centres in the UK. Nocturnal pulse oximetry (NPO) ...

The heart and lungs work closely to meet the tissues’ oxygen demands. If the balance between oxygen demand and supply becomes disturbed in critical illness, tissue hypoxia and cell death can rapidly ...

Objectives Multiplex gastrointestinal PCR (GI-PCR) allows fast and simultaneous detection of 22 enteric pathogens (including Campylobacter, Salmonella , Shigella /enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC ...

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 ...

Purpose Language skills are critical. Children born very preterm are vulnerable to language problems, but further work is needed to determine characteristics and specific predictors of language ...

AIM To determine the incidence of hypocalcaemia in critically ill children with meningococcal disease. METHODS In a prospective cohort study, 70 of 80 patients admitted consecutively with a clinical ...

Genetic mutations affecting proteins required for normal surfactant protein function are a rare cause of respiratory disease. The genes identified that cause respiratory disease are surfactant protein ...

Aim This literature review seeks to establish whether sufficient evidence showing an additional benefit of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) on diabetes outcomes compared to intermittent self ...

Aim To examine ethnic and sex differences in the pattern of skeletal maturity from adolescence to adulthood using a novel longitudinal analysis technique (SuperImposition by Translation And Rotation ...

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 ...