Betamethasone Impairs Cerebral Blood Flow Velocities in Very Premature Infants with Severe Chronic Lung Disease

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 270-275

  Cambonie, Gilles ^a   Mesnage, Renaud ^a   Milési, Christophe ^a   Pidoux, Odile ^a   Veyrac, Corinne ^a   Picaud, Jean Charles ^a  

^a HÔPITAL ARNAUD DE VILLENEUVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE;

ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; BETAMETHASONE; BLOOD CIRCULATION TIME; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 38149074631     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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