Evaluation of fasts for investigating hypoglycaemia or suspected metabolic disease.

Aim: To assess the value and safety of fasts for investigating hypoglycaemia or suspected metabolic disease.

Study Design: Review of all diagnostic fasts performed over a 2.5 year period.

Eleven year review of infective endocarditis.

Twenty children were treated for infective endocarditis (IE) at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children during an eleven year period from January 1980 to December 1990. One child had I.E.