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A Herrault

Publications and source records attributed to A Herrault.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources

[Abused children].

After a description of child abuse and neglect among young children in the literature, the authors focus on the recognition of the problem by professionals. They describe the clinical symptoms which are found among battered and neglected children. When faced with this non specific and polymorphic symptomatology, they provide means to reach the diagnosis. They conclude with a brief description of the behaviour one should adopt when dealing with the children as well as with the legal protection system.

Child↗

[Neonatal hemolysis secondary to congenital poikilocytosis].

Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis is a congenital haemolytic anaemia recently described. A new case is reported in which the condition was diagnosed by a study of erythrocyte membrane proteins in the parents. The unusual clinical features of this case lead to a discussion of the relationship between hereditary pyropoikilocytosis and other rare forms of elliptocytosis in children.

Anemia, Hemolytic, Congenital↗

[Relapsing infections associated with high serum IgE levels Buckley's syndrome (author's transl)].

An 8-year old girl suffering from chronic relapsing staphylococcal skin infection since the first days of life was found to have extremely high (up to 26,500 units/ml) serum IgE levels and impaired polymorphonuclear chemotaxis. The other immunological tests appeared to be normal. There seemed to be a correlation between impaired chemotaxis and rise in IgE, the latter perhaps being related to a deficiency in some thymus-dependent lymphocyte functions.

Chemotaxis, Leukocyte↗

[Blood pressure in the child and the adolescent. Effect of age, sex, height, weight and heart rate].

6,391 school children in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis were studied to determine the normal limits of blood pressure, its variations with age and sex, and its correlations with height, weight and heart rate. Blood pressure has a nearly perfect Gaussian distribution. Average blood pressures increase linearly with age according to sex. Boys have higher systolic blood pressures after the age of 14 and higher diastolic blood pressures after the age of 16. The estimated incidence of hypertension was 3,1% systolic hypertension and 2.2% diastolic hypertension. There was a very close relationship between systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Average systolic and diastolic blood pressures increased very significantly with height and weight, in both sex. Heart rate decreased with age. The average blood pressure was not related to heart rate. Blood pressure charts, related to age, sex, height and weight, allow follow-up of arterial blood pressure as children grow up and may lead to a better understanding of the mechanism of hypertension.

Adolescent↗

[Myocardial infarct due to diffuse arteriopathy of the coronary trunk in a 13-year-old child].

A case of antero-septal myocardial infarction in a child of 13, presenting as syncopal attacks, is reported. Selective coronary angiography showed severe diffuse lesions of the anterior descending artery and the right coronary artery. Clinical progress was satisfactory over an 18 month follow-up period. The only biochemical abnormality was a raised serum uric acid, the significance of which is discussed.

Adolescent↗