Response of skin blood volume, velocity and flow to local warming in newborns, measured by laser Doppler flowmetry

Pediatrics International

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 624-630

  Takayanagi, Toshimitsu ^a,d   Fukuda, Masafumi ^b   Nakazawa, Makoto ^c   Tanaka, Shigeki ^a   Yoshinaga, Muneyoshi ^a  

^a Nagasaki Chuo National Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d National Saga Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laser Doppler flowmetry; Local warming; Newborns; Skin microcirculation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; HUMAN; INFANT; LASER FLOWMETER; MICROCIRCULATION; NEWBORN PERIOD; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; VASODILATATION; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WARMING;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MICROCIRCULATION; SKIN;

EID: 0033404606     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-200X.1999.01145.x     Document Type: Article

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