Extremely low-birth-weight infants - Survival and life at the border of feasibility;Extreme frühgeburten - Überleben und leben an der grenze der machbarkeit

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 117, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 305-307

  Pollak, Arnold ^a   Fuiko, Renate ^b  

^a UNIV KLIN KINDER JUGENDHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Extreme prematurity; Outcome; Survival; Viability

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MORBIDITY; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; GERMANY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NOTE; PREMATURITY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; PREMATURE BIRTH; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 20844444786     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-005-0351-x     Document Type: Editorial

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