Systemic infection and brain injury in the preterm infant

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 188-191

  Polin, Richard A ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ENDOTOXIN;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MENINGITIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PREMATURITY; SEPSIS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; PREGNANCY; SEPSIS;

EID: 45249106406     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/JPED.1784     Document Type: Editorial

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