Cardiac effects of a single course of antenatal betamethasone in preterm infants

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Vural, M ^a,b   Yilmaz, I ^b   Oztunc F ^b   Ilikkan, B ^b   Erginoz E ^c   Perk, Y ^b  

^a Nisantasi Ihlamur Yolu   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; STEROID;

AORTA ROOT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BETAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEART; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYSTOLE;

EID: 33644655429     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2005.084525     Document Type: Article

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