Failure to thrive
Diencephalic Syndrome: A Cause of Failure to Thrive and a Model of Partial Growth Hormone Resistance
... and failure to thrive in the setting of normal developmental mile- stones and continued age-appropriate linear ...for failure to gain weight appropriately and were subsequently found to have CNS ...
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Persistent Cough and Failure to Thrive: A Presentation of Foreign Body Aspiration in a Child With Asthma
... Failure to thrive (FTT) is a general term that is used to describe a child with a weight gain that is less than expected for children of similar age and gender. A child is regarded to have FTT when he or ...
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Ankyloglossia, Exclusive Breastfeeding, and Failure to Thrive
... his failure to thrive, mandated as part of an investigation by the Depart- ment of Children and Families after an allegation of medical neglect was ...for failure to thrive was pursued; ...
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Evaluation of Failure to Thrive: Diagnostic Yield of Testing for Renal Tubular Acidosis
... ABSTRACT. Background. Failure to thrive (FTT) poses a diagnostic dilemma for pediatricians. The kidney disorder that is considered most often is renal tubular acidosis (RTA). However, the prevalence of RTA ...
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Differentiation of Organic from Nonorganic Failure to Thrive Syndrome in Infancy
... Differentiation between organic and nonor- ganic failure to thrive (FTT) often requires prolonged, complicated hospital evaluation.. This study was aimed at.[r] ...
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Syndrome of Erythroderma, Failure to Thrive, and Diarrhea in Infancy: A Manifestation of Immunodeficiency
... Our patients share with these cases the triad of generalized erythroderma, failure to thrive, and diarrhea, but the evidence suggests that they have a different condition. None of our pa[r] ...
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<em>Helicobacter pylori</em> infection is not associated with failure to thrive: a case–control study
... This prospective case control study, approved by the Com- mittee for Clinical Investigation at MacKay Memorial Hos- pital, was conducted from January 2009 to December 2011 (approval no: MMHIS639). Children aged 4–18 ...
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Nonorganic Failure To Thrive: A Long-Term Follow-up
... nonorganic failure to thrive were reviewed at an average of 6 years 4 months after their initial presentation.. Most of the.[r] ...
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Elevated Lead Levels in Children With Nonorganic Failure to Thrive
... lead poisoning and malnutrition are strongly asso- ciated with poverty,20 we designed the following study to determine whether children with failure to thrive in our clinic had elevated [r] ...
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Parental Health Beliefs as a Cause of Nonorganic Failure to Thrive
... The seven children had nonorganic failure to thrive due to decreased caloric intake imposed by. the parents in the interest ofpromoting good health in the child[r] ...
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A Multidisciplinary Team Experience with Food Insecurity & Failure to Thrive
... Providers caring for young children must continuously monitor children’s growth, development, and well-being. Children’s health is intimately tied to a host of factors, including their socioeconomic status. For instance, ...
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Failure to Thrive in a 4-Month-Old Nursing Infant
... Dr Kessler was not aware of the interim history that revealed the mother’s hypothyroid condition. His commentary is a fine example of a biopsychoso- cial approach to understanding the cause of Chris- tine’s ...
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Failure to Thrive as a Manifestation of Child Neglect
... ABSTRACT. Failure to thrive is a common problem in infancy and ...of failure to thrive when child neglect may be ...2005;116:1234–1237; failure to thrive, development, child ...
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Failure to Thrive as Distinct From Child Neglect
... that failure to thrive (FTT) as a manifestation of child neglect represents a small but highly significant percentage of cases, that conflation of poverty with neglect is inappro- priate, that all ...
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Long-Term Effects of Nonorganic Failure to Thrive
... This com- panison showed that six of the children who had suffered from failure to thrive, in contrast to one child in the comparison group, were one or more years below their chronologi[r] ...
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Development of a Risk-Stratification Tool for Medical Child Abuse in Failure to Thrive
... OBJECTIVE: To develop a risk-stratification tool to help identify medical child abuse (MCA) in children evaluated for failure to thrive (FTT). PATIENTS AND METHODS: In this case-control study, the control ...
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A 3-Month-Old With Failure to Thrive and Persistent Vomiting
... The differential for significant weight loss in this infant is broad and includes a genetic or metabolic condition, a malabsorptive process, renal tubular acidosis, thyroid disease, congenital cardiac disease, and ...
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Increased Length of Stay and Costs Associated With Weekend Admissions for Failure to Thrive
... We extracted data from each admission, including de- mographic characteristics, day of ad- mission, LOS, total costs per stay, total number of discharge diagnoses, primary discharge diag[r] ...
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Excess Fruit Juice Consumption as a Contributing Factor in Nonorganic Failure to Thrive
... consumed apple and white grape juice and an additional breath hydrogen test with 240 mL of white grape juice was performed to determine its tolerance.. Duplicate breath samples were take[r] ...
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Congenital sucrase-isomaltase deficiency presenting with failure to thrive, hypercalcemia, and nephrocalcinosis
... Sucrase-isomaltase deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disorder in which there is complete absence of sucrase and most of the maltase digestive activity. The usual presenta- tion generally is at weaning from breast ...
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