Gender-based differences in children with sepsis and ARDS: The ESPNIC ARDS Database Group

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1770-1773

  Bindl, Lutz ^a   Buderus, Stephan ^a   Dahlem, Peter ^b   Demirakca, Sueha ^c   Goldner, Martin ^d   Huth, Ralf ^e   Kohl, Martina ^f   Krause, Martin ^g   Kühl, Peter ^h   Lasch, Peter ^d   Lewandowski, Klaus ⁱ   Merz, Ulrich ^j   Moeller, Jens ^f   Mohamad, Yehya ^k   Peters, Mark ^l   Porz, Wolfgang ^m   Vierzig, Anne ⁿ   Rüchard, Jochen ^a   Scharf, Jochem ^o   Varnholt, Verena ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^f Children's Hospital   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^h Univ Childrens Hosp Charité ^*  (Germany)

ⁱ CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^k Germany Frauenhofer Inst Technol   (Germany)

^l GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^m KZVA Childrens Hospital   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PREPUBERTY; PREVALENCE; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SEPSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 10744228182     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-1948-z     Document Type: Article

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