Usefulness of corticosteroid therapy in decreasing epinephrine requirements in critically ill infants with congenital heart disease

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 591-594

  Shore, Shirah ^a   Nelson, David P ^a   Pearl, Jeffrey M ^a   Manning, Peter B ^a   Wong, Hector ^a   Shanley, Thomas P ^a   Keyser, Timothy ^a   Schwartz, Steven M ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Cardiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMRINONE; CORTICOSTEROID; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; MILRINONE; NORADRENALIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INOTROPISM; LEUKOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEROID THERAPY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035451042     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(01)01751-9     Document Type: Article

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