Morbidity and mortality of preterm twins and higher-order multiple births

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 293-299

  Suri, Kirin ^a   Bhandari, Vineet ^b   Lerer, Trudy ^c   Rosenkrantz, Ted S ^a   Hussain, Naveed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Farmington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNG SURFACTANT; STEROID;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWINS;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONNECTICUT; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; QUADRUPLETS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRIPLETS;

EID: 0034858223     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7200492     Document Type: Article

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