TIPIT: A randomised controlled trial of thyroxine in preterm infants under 28 weeks gestation: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Angiography protocol

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ng, Sze M ^a   Turner, Mark A ^a   Gamble, Carrol ^a   Didi, Mohammed ^b   Victor, Suresh ^c   Malamateniou, Christina ^a   Parkes, Laura M ^a   Tietze, Anna ^b   Gregory, Lloyd ^d   Sluming, Vanessa ^a   Abernethy, Laurence ^b   Weindling, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOTROX; LEVOTHYROXINE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; OXYGEN; PLACEBO; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN SIZE; CHILDBIRTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INFANT; LUNG DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYELINATION; ORGAN SIZE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREMATURITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; BLOOD; BRAIN; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; THYROID DISEASE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; BRAIN; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THYROID DISEASES; THYROXINE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47949085535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-8-26     Document Type: Article

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