Case 12-2008: A newborn infant with intermittent apnea and seizures

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1713-

  Redline, Raymond W ^a,c   Sagar, Pallavi ^b,d   King, Mary Etta ^b,d   Krishnamoorthy, Kalpathy S ^b,d   Grabowski, Eric F ^b,d   Roberts, Drucilla J ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; GENTAMICIN; MORPHINE SULFATE; PHENOBARBITAL; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ANAMNESIS; APGAR SCORE; APNEA; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYANOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NEONATAL STROKE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STROKE; BRAIN; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CHORION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PHLEBITIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RADIOGRAPHY; UMBILICAL VEIN; VASCULITIS;

APNEA; BRAIN; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CHORION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBITIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SEIZURES; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UMBILICAL VEINS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 42249093720     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc0801164     Document Type: Article

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