Enteral erythropoietin increases plasma erythropoietin level in preterm infants: A randomized controlled trial

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-28

  Zahed Pasha, Y ^a,b   Ahmadpour Kacho, M ^a   Hajiahmadi, M ^a   Hosseini, M B ^a  

^a BABOL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Amirkola Children's Hospital Babol   (Iran)

Author keywords

Erythropoiesis; Preterm; rhEPO

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; FERRIC SULFATE; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; APNEA; ARTICLE; CIRCULATORY INSTABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ENTERAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEEDING INTOLERANCE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MONOTHERAPY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ANEMIA; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SEPTICEMIA; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE INSTABILITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ENTERAL NUTRITION; ERYTHROPOIETIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; RETICULOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 38349033550     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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