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C Rieger

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PubMed1978

[Scientific fundamentals of hippo- and riding therapy - a compilation of study results (author's transl)].

The article surveys some of the scientific fundamentals of hippo- and riding therapy, and its methods using the characteristic horseback three dimensional rhythmic movement impulses for its therapeutic values, particularly in cerebral palsy. The influence of riding on posture and balance reactions, position of the pelvic, postures of head and trunk as well as rotatory movements was demonstrated in film studies using the cerebral palsied with different syndromes as an example. Electromyographic examinations of antagonistic muscle groups, kinesiologic analyses with the help of a video-recorder, as well as motor tests to evaluate coordination and balance control confirm the practical experience, i.e., that the hippo- and riding therapy has a positive influence on the neuromuscular dysfunction in cerebral movement disorders. A lasting improvement of motor and intellectual abilities was proven by a long-term study which also revealed that motivation was the driving force.

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Prospective study of fever after bronchoalveolar lavage in children.

BACKGROUND: We investigated the significance of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) characteristics and bacterial pathogens isolated in bronchoalveolar lavage fluids, oropharyngeal cultures and blood cultures for the development of fever in children after flexible bronchoscopy. METHOD: We studied 41 consecutive patients (age 4 months to 15 years), who underwent bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and 24 hours temperature monitoring. Two blood cultures of each patient drawn at two sites, oropharyngeal swabs, total cell counts, cell differentials and microbial cultures from lavage fluid were studied. RESULTS: Postbronchoscopic temperature increase was significantly higher in patients with positive BALF cultures (p = 0.04). Seven out of 41 patients had postbronchoscopic fever and positive bacterial cultures of BALF. Bacteraemia (with an identical pathogen isolated in BALF) was found in one febrile patient. There was a significantly higher total cell count (p = 0.03) and concentration of neutrophils (p = 0.001) in BALF among the children with presence of positive bacterial cultures. CONCLUSION: We conclude that fever is a frequent adverse event following BAL in children and is rarely associated with bacteraemia. Findings associated with the risk to develop fever are positive bacterial cultures and high neutrophil numbers in BALF.

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[Measles and mumps antibody concentrations in newborns and their mothers--follow up first year of life].

BACKGROUND: During the last twenty years the incidence of measles and mumps decreased after introduction of vaccinations in the industrial nations. The vaccination rate of the population in Germany lies currently under the required elimination rate. The epidemiological situation has changed altogether. The illness age has on the one hand moved up, teenager and adult suffer more frequent these so-called children's diseases with an increased complication rate. On the other hand illness cases in infancy seeming to increase. It was aim of this study to examinate the current serological situation for measles and mumps antibody status in women in childbed and their healthy newborns at birth time and during the first seven to nine life months. PATIENTS AND METHOD: 237 healthy newborns, born in 1999 in Bochum, West-Germany and their mothers were included. The mothers were asked if and when they did suffer from measles and mumps or were questioned to active vaccinations against these diseases. Immediately antepartal from all mothers was taken a venous blood sample. Immediately postpartal from all newborn childs umbilical cord blood was taken and again a blood sample in the age of six to eight months. In the serum tests the measle and mumps IgG antibody concentrations were examined quantitatively with ELISA methods. In cases with negative or borderline positive values the plaque neutralization test was also used for measuring of the measle antibodies. CONCLUSIONS: Between the maternal and neonatal titers results the knownly positive correlation. Maternal lending immunity against measle and mumps lasts more less into infancy as generally suspected. An earlier first active immunization against measles and mumps could be discussed. The strict realisation of the present vaccinating recommendations should be operated as a matter of priority to lead to the desired measles and mumps eradication.

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[Maternal tobacco consumption can be reduced by simple intervention of the paediatrician].

BACKGROUND: Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke at home increases the risk for numerous diseases in childhood. In this study we asked if maternal tobacco consumption can be reduced by a written advice of the paediatrician. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In a paediatrician's practice we recruited 40 mothers who smoked ten or more cigarettes per day according to their own statement. The paediatrician's intervention consisted in a short written advice to reduce tobacco consumption. At the beginning of the study and six weeks later we obtained urine samples of the mothers in order to measure the concentrations of the nicotine metabolite cotinine. A subgroup of the study population was informed about the initial concentration of cotinine, the other subgroup was not informed. MAIN RESULTS: Following the written advice of the paediatrician mothers reduced their consumption of tobacco products according to their own information as well as according to the concentrations of cotinine. Confronting mothers with their initial concentrations of cotinine was not found to be an additional factor reducing tobacco consumption. CONCLUSIONS: Maternal consumption of tobacco products can be reduced significantly by an advice of the paediatrician at least for a short time.

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[Fatal course of infectious mononucleosis in an 11-month-old girl].

Fatal infectious mononucleosis is vary rare in the human population. Only two case reports of girls suffering an Epstein-Barr virus-associated lymphoproliferation without evidence of an underlying immunodeficiency came to our knowledge. We report on the case of an 11-months-old girl with fatal infectious mononucleosis. Some findings allow distinct delineation from previous reports. Firstly, the present "pulmonary lymphoid hyperplasia" has been formerly described in patients with HIV infection exclusively. Secondly, only the EBV surface antigen LMP was expressed on infected B-cells. The nuclear antigen complex EBNA could not be demonstrated. Overall, the results suggest a so far unrecognised type of EBV-associated lymphoproliferation in a female infant.

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