Administration of prenatal betamethasone suppresses the adrenal-hypophyseal axis in newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1176-1182

  Paddock, Heather ^a   Beierle, Elizabeth A ^a,d   Chen, Mike K ^a   Mullett, Timothy ^b   Wood, Charles M ^c   Kays, David W ^a   Langham Jr , Max R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

adrenal hypophysed axis; Congenital diaphragmatic hernia; prenatally administered beta methasone; pulmonary hypoplasia

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; PRASTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LUNG; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; THORACOTOMY;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APGAR SCORE; BETAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 3843123066     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2004.04.015     Document Type: Article

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