Lactate, lactate/pyruvate ratio and catecholamine interrelations in cord blood at delivery in complicated pregnancies

Early Human Development

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-94

  Nordström, Lennart ^a,b   Chua, Selina ^b   Roy, Ashim ^b   Naka, Keiichi ^c   Persson, Bengt ^d   Arulkumaran, Sabaratnam ^b  

^a ÖSTERSUND HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d ST GÖRAN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Fetal hypoxia; Lactate; Pyruvate

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; DOPAMINE; LACTIC ACID; NORADRENALIN; PYRUVIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PH; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FETUS HYPOXIA; HUMAN; LABOR; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRENATAL PERIOD; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; CATECHOLAMINES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LACTIC ACID; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PYRUVIC ACID;

EID: 0032575636     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(98)00014-0     Document Type: Article

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