Failure to thrive (FTT) is not a diagnosis, but a descriptive term that highlights a potential problem with a child's growth, development, nutrition and general health. Gentile charts are very useful, but they are often based on a particular population of childr...
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Failure to thrive is poor physical growth that results when the nutritional demands of young children are not fulfilled. This diagnosis is made when, on serial growth monitoring, the child’s anthropometric parameters such as weight for age and/or height are found to be significantly below the ...
Chapter 36 Failure to Thrive Todd A. Mastrovitch, MD Key Points Knowledge of normal growth and development patterns is necessary to evaluate a patient with failure to thrive. Failure to thrive is a multifactorial process. The differential diagnosis must include both organic and nonorganic causes ...
Failure to thrive(FTT) was, and still is, a common term used in themedical diagnosisof feeding disorders. Clinicians initially distinguished between two forms of FTT: organic FTT, where a medical condition is considered to be the major reason for growth failure, and nonorganic FTT, where the...
“Failure to thrive” occurs when a child has slow weight gain. It is commonly seen in the first couple of years of life and accounts for1-5%of paediatric hospital admissions for those under two. The term. ‘failure to thrive’, describes a slow growth pattern. It is not a diagnosis. ...
1. Failure to thrive (FTT) is a diagnosis used with increasing frequency in the acute care setting. The purpose of this study was to determine how the diagnosis of FTT was being applied to the geriatric population. 2. FTT was used in the study population to describe the general deterioratio...
The rate of growth is, therefore, more important in the diagnosis of failure to thrive than absolute size or the presence of growth. Children found on one occasion to be below the third centile for weight are often described as showing failure to thrive, but evidence that they have ...
Introduction: Failure to thrive (FT) is a condition often seen by General Practitioners, characterized by a weight below the 5th percentile repeatedly or a weight deceleration crossing 2 major percentile lines. The majority of FT is due to inadequate caloric intake, mostly caused by behavioural/soc...
Failure to Thrive: When to Suspect Inborn Errors of Metabolism 机译:ive壮成长:何时怀疑先天性代谢错误 获取原文 获取原文并翻译 | 示例 获取外文期刊封面目录资料 开具论文收录证明 >> 页面导航 摘要 著录项 相似文献 相关主题 摘要 Failure to thrive (FTT) is a common symptom, not a diagnosis, of...