Examined were 55 children with adenosine deaminase enzyme deficiency and combined immunodeficiency disease, characterized by severe infections in early life. (CL)

Studied were three unrelated infants with distal renal tubular acidosis (a condition characterized by an inability to acidify the urine to minimal pH levels resulting in the loss of bicarbonates). (DB)

Thyroid abnormalities were studies in seven boys and three girls, 4- to 17-years-old, with Noonan's syndrome, characterized by mental retardation, ocular anomalies (wide spaced eyes, drooped eye lids, or strabismus), heart lesions, characteristics of Turner's syndrome, and normal karyotypes (chromosome arrangement). (MC)

Serum immunoglobulin E was measured by double antibody radioimmunoassay in 32 children with bronchiolitis and 30 age-matched control subjects. (Author)

Experience with combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy of acute lymphocytic leukemia in children was reviewed. (Author)

Reported was the medical case history of a 4-year-old Caucasian male diagnosed as having tick toxicosis. (CB)

Reported was the medical case history of an 8 1/2-year-old girl with anthrax septicemia and meningitis thought to be secondary to the cutaneous lesion on her neck. (CB)

Cognitive and behavioral effects of temporarily elevating levels of phenylalanine in treated phenylketonuria (PKU) were investigated in a triple-blind crossover study with 16 early and continuously treated children and adolescents with PKU. Results suggest that intellectual ability, memory, and conduct are not affected by medium-term elevated…