Discussed are dietary and surgical aspects of the medical management of epilepsy in children and adults. (DB)

Evaluated was the use of an oral elemental diet consisting of crystalline amino acids, glucose, electrolytes, and vitamins to control severe intractable diarrhea in 27 infants (1-day to 9-months of age). (DB)

Eighteen premature infants were given prophylactic cutaneous stimulation and continuous positive airway pressure as a therapy for apnea (cessation of breathing). (DB)

Reviewed were treatment problems encountered in the care of 143 hydrocephalic children with ventriculocardiac shunts. (GW)

Nineteen of thirty-three children (5-to 18-years-old) whose arterial septal heart defects were surgically repaired did not undergo pre-operative cardiac catheterization. (CL)

Breast and penis enlargement as well as elevated blood pressure in a 1-year-old Black boy was successfully treated by administration of the drug prednisone. (DB)

Trends in intellectual functioning before and after diet termination were examined in 30 children (5-11 years old) with PKU (Phenylketonuria, a metabolic disorder) treated before 6 weeks of age and on a liberal diet for a mean of 3 years since the mean age of 59 months. Journal availability: C.V. Mosby Company, 11830 Westline Industrial Drive, St.…