A search for congenital rubella in psychiatric day treatment, language and learning centres
| Autor: | Margie S Golick, Jack Mendelson, Stanley J. Rothman, Joseph Portnoy, Ronald B. Feldman, William W. Eaton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1983 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Adolescent Genetic counseling Population Day care Congenital Rubella Rubella vaccine medicine Humans Language Development Disorders education Psychiatry Child Rubella education.field_of_study Language Disorders business.industry Learning Disabilities Wechsler Scales Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Infant Vaccination Psychiatry and Mental health Child Preschool Learning disability Female medicine.symptom business Day Care Medical medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie. 28(1) |
| ISSN: | 0706-7437 |
| Popis: | A search for previously undiagnosed congenital rubella (CR) was made on 672 children who had attended psychiatric day treatment, learning, and speech and language centres. This was done by observing the sero-response of seronegative children to rubella vaccine, since 90% of patients with known CR who are seronegative fail to seroconvert to the vaccine. Of the 225 seronegative children 23 did not seroconvert after a single vaccination. Five of these failed to respond on revaccination. These five children had a high frequency of severe language and learning disability as well as frequent diagnoses of major CNS disorders. It is likely that a far greater number of children in the population studied had CR, since our methods identify only about 20% of those affected. Clinically, a specific diagnosis of CR is helpful in facilitating genetic counselling and in allowing the clinician to offer a more hopeful prognosis. |
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