The discrepancy between maturation of visual-evoked potentials and cognitive outcome at five years in very preterm infants with and without hemodynamic signs of fetal brain-sparing

Pediatrics

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 385-391

  Scherjon, Sicco ^a   Briët, Judy ^b   Oosting, Hans ^b   Kok, Joke ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brain maturation; Brain sparing; Cognitive outcome; Fetal growth restriction; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PLACENTA PERFUSION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0033973190     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.105.2.385     Document Type: Article

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