Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) presents as reduced consciousness, often with seizures, abnormal tone, feeding and respiratory difficulties. The most common cause is secondary to a hypoxic-ischaemic ...

Correspondence to Dr A P J Parker, Department of Paediatric Neurology, Box 107, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; alasdair.parker{at}addenbrookes.nhs.uk We aim to provide a concise, ...

Fifteen-minute consultation: Approach to a child with congenital insensitivity to pain ...

Correspondence to Professor Deborah Murdoch-Eaton, Academic Unit of Medical Education, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK; d.murdoch-eaton{at}sheffield ...

Every paediatrician, generalist or specialist, at every level and in every setting will come across the child or young person with disordered development and has a duty of care to ensure that ...

1 Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, University Hospital Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK 2 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Nottingham, Queen’s ...

2 Department of Paediatric Oncology, Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, UK 3 Co-founder of Paediatric Oncology Reference Team and Parent of Child Treated for Leukaemia, London, UK 4 Public and Patient ...

1 Department of Women's and Children's Health, Neonatal Unit, Liverpool Women's Hospital, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Inotropes are medicines that increase the force of cardiac muscle ...

1 King's College London, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma. Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology. Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK ...

2 Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to Nicholas D Embleton, Newcastle University, Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, ...

1 Department of Medical and Social Care Education, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 2 School of Applied Social Science, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK 3 General and Adolescent Paediatrics ...

Because of its relative prominence in infancy, a normal thymus gland can give the impression of cardiomegaly, a mediastinal mass or even lung pathology. Recognition of certain radiographic ...