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MU Department of Child Health and Children's Hospital provides training and clinical services through fourteen divisions, five outpatient clinics around Columbia, as well as with pediatric specialists from within other departments. It provides clinical outreach services throughout rural Missouri and have Mid-Missouri's only Neonatal and Pediatric Transport Teams made up of highly specialized nurses and respiratory care therapists. Our vision is to be a leading resource in child health to the citizens of Missouri, and to achieve national prominence in pediatric education and research.
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Lupus with Grave's disease : overlap disease vs drug induced lupus : a case report
(2017)Background: Graves’ disease is one of the T-Cell mediated organ-specific autoimmune thyroid diseases, while SLE is mainly a B-Cell mediated autoantibody regulated systemic autoimmune disease. There is a well-established ... -
Decrease in Anogenital Distance among Male Infants with Prenatal Phthalate Exposure
(Environmental Health Perspectives, 2005-05)Prenatal phthalate exposure impairs testicular function and shortens anogenital distance (AGD) in male rodents. We present data from the first study to examine AGD and other genital measurements in relation to prenatal ... -
Care and Managed Care: Psychological Factors Relevant to Healthcare and its Delivery
(2002)What is the essence of clinical caring, how can its value be determined, and what are its origins? Caring for a patient is a bit like loving someone. In both cases, the wellbeing of the person who is loved or the patient ... -
Is There a Contradiction Between the Bio-psycho-social Model and Evidence-based Practice?
(2000)Evidence-based knowledge is essential to good practice. However, there are fundamentally different ways of developing evidence. Data gathering by epidemiologic surveys is most likely to get at the “truth” when the diseases ... -
Integration of Biomedical and Psychosocial Management
(Pediatric Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders. New York: Academy Professional Information Services, 1994)Two concepts helped and hindered clinicians throughout the 20th Century: 1) the most important and legitimate use of physicians' time is in the diagnosis and cure of disease; and 2) patients are cured of illness through ... -
The Biopsychosocial Model of Clinical Practice in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
(Academy Profession Information Services, 1999)The biomedical model limits the role of the physician to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. It fails when applied to patients whose symptoms cannot be reduced to physiochemical terms or “cured” by technological means. ... -
Infant Colic
(2000)The term “colic” implies abdominal pain of intestinal origin. However, it has never been proved that colicky crying is caused by pain in the abdomen or anywhere else. The previous edition of the Rome Criteria excluded ... -
Heterogeneity of Diaper Dependency in Three to Six Year-old Children: Implications for Case Management
(2000)A retrospective review of 395 charts of children referred for pediatric gastroenterologic evaluation of fecal soiling and other toileting difficulties revealed that thirty ( 8% ) of this series were children between 3 and ... -
A Classification of Disorders of Defecation in Infants and Children
(1994)During the 45 years since the publication of a surgical treatment for Hirschsprung's Disease, much more attention has been given to differentiating aganglionic from functional megacolon than other, less common disorders ... -
Diagnosis and Treatment of Disorders of Defecation in Children
(1976-11)This article discusses the physiology of fecal continence and disorders of defecation in childhood. -
Categorization of Functional Fecal Soiling
(2000)Functional fecal soiling has been categorized as “primary” (i.e., continuous from infancy) and “secondary” (i.e., onset after gaining control of fecal continence). The “primary” vs. “secondary” classification interferes ... -
Comprehensive Management of Infants with Gastroesophageal Reflux and Failure to Thrive
(Mosby - Year Book, 1995-09)An alternative hypothesis regarding vomiting and failure to thrive is that they may be coincidental; they may have different of common causes, but they may not be connected simply as primary and secondary phenomena. This ... -
Infant Rumination Syndrome
(1979-03)The infant rumination syndrome is an uncommon disorder difficult to differentiate from commoner conditions causing vomiting and weight loss. Its validity has recently been questioned. Its importance is heightened by the ... -
Regurgitation, Rumination and the Rumination Syndromes
(2000)Rumination exists in a wide range of ages, from infancy to adulthood, and is a broad spectrum of conditions ranging from short, benign and self-limited to severe and life threatening. The heterogeneity of patients in many ... -
Functional Vomiting Disorders in Infancy: Innocent Vomiting, Nervous Vomiting, and Infant Rumination Syndrome
(Mosby - Year Book, 1994-12)Pediatric gastroenterologists have tended to view gastroesophageal reflux (GER) as a disease in and of itself--a disease that can be diagnosed "objectively" with use of numerical data from esophageal pH monitoring and cured ... -
Functional Vomiting Patterns and Disorders in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
(2000)This two page document lists functional vomiting patterns and disorders in infants, children, and adolescents. -
Management of Adult Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome, Including the Use of Opiates
(1994-07)Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome is a functional vomiting disorder characterized by recurrent, stereotypic episodes of overwhelming nausea and vomiting lasting hours or days, separated by intervals of relative wellness lasting ... -
Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome in 41 Adults: the illness, the patients and problems of management
(BMC Medicine, 2005-12)Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome (CVS) is a disorder characterized by recurrent, stereotypic episodes of incapacitating nausea, vomiting and other symptoms, separated by intervals of comparative wellness. This report describes ... -
The Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome: A Report of 71 Cases and Literature Review
(Raven Press, 1993-02)This study reviews 71 patients who presented between 1968 and 1988 with recurrent, self-limited episodes of nausea and vomiting separated by symptom-free intervals and were diagnosed with cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS). ... -
Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome in Adults
(2000)The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in CVS, mostly as a result of the work of CVSA and its members. Unfortunately, the fact that CVS affects adults as well as children is still largely unknown.