What is the appropriate intravenous dose of vitamin E for very-low-birth-weight infants?

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 205-207

  Brion, Luc P ^a   Bell, Edward F ^b   Raghuveer, Talkad S ^c   Soghier, Lamia ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; INTRALIPID; MULTIVITAMIN; TOCOPHEROL;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; REFERENCE VALUE; RETINOPATHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; BODY WEIGHT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; RISK; VITAMIN E;

EID: 14044261696     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7211078     Document Type: Article

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