A retrospective study was undertaken of survival after conventional management of 35 infants suffering from persistent pulmonary hypertension of the neonate (PPHN). The outcome of infants weighing more than 2000 g and who ...

Objective. To determine the more applicable of two ways of prostaglandin induction currently in use in second trimester induced abortions for congenital or chromosomal abnormalities. Design. A prospective randomised ...

Human brucellosis, a multisystem disease which may mimic other conditions, has a low incidence in childhood and the diagnosis may easily be missed. Over a 7-month period 9 children with brucellosis presented to the Department ...

Acute respiratory infections (ARls) are a leading cause of death in South African children.' Most of these deaths are from pneumonia and are potentially preventable, bur the necessary steps to address the problem have ...

In 52% of children with confirmed and probable tuberculosis the diagnosis could have been made earlier than it was. The main clinical clues which should have led to suspicion of tuberculosis were close adult contacts and ...

Children all over South Africa who are infected with HIV or even have full-blown AIDS will presently reach school-going age without the schools, the community - and worse, the medical professionals in the community - ...