Reference range for serum cortisol in well preterm infants

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1999, Pages

  Heckmann, Matthias ^a   Wudy, Stefan A ^a   Haack, Doris ^a   Pohlandt, Frank ^a   Heckmann, M ^a   Wudy, S A ^a   Pohlandt, F ^b   Haack, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Preterm; Reference range; Serum cortisol

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTENSION; INFANT; MALE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032717121     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.81.3.F171     Document Type: Article

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