Intracranial venous thrombosis after hypoxic-ischemic brain insult in two newborns: Could low serum carnitine levels have contributed?

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-65

  Ezgü, Fatih Süheyl ^a   Atalay, Yildiz ^a   Hasanoǧlu, Alev ^a   Gücüyener, Kivilcim ^a   Koç, Esin ^a   Ergenekon, Ebru ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Carnitine; Cerebral thrombosis; Perinatal asphyxia; Thrombogenesis

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE;

AMINO ACID DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEATH; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOGENESIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARNITINE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 1642527122     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415042000194612     Document Type: Article

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