Life-threatening hypernatraemic dehydration in breastfed babies

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1025-1026

  Shroff, R ^a   Hignett, R ^a   Pierce, C ^a   Marks, S ^a   Van't Hoff, W ^a  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); DESMOPRESSIN; EDETATE CHROMIUM CR 51; HEPARIN; SUCCIMER TC 99M; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHYDRATION; SODIUM EXCRETION; THROMBOSIS;

BREAST FEEDING; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 33845253801     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.095497     Document Type: Article

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