Effects of vitamin E supplementation during erythropoietin treatment of the anaemia of prematurity

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Pathak, A ^b   Roth, P ^a,b   Piscitelli, J ^b   Johnson, L ^c  

^a STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FERNISOL; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; PLACEBO;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT NUTRITION; NEWBORN; PHLEBOTOMY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; STANDARD; TRANSFUSION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 0038389839     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 13592998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.88.4.f324     Document Type: Article

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