The effect of maternal betamethasone and fetal tracheal occlusion on pulmonary vascular morphometry in fetal rabbits with surgically induced diaphragmatic hernia: A placebo controlled morphologic study

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 674-681

  Roubliova, Xenia I ^a   Lewi, Paul J ^a,b   Verbeken, Eric K ^b   Vaast, Pascal ^a,c   Jani, Jacques C ^a,b   Lu, Huiqi ^a   Tibboel, Dick ^d   Deprest, Jan A ^a,b  

^a Center for Surgical Technologies Leuven   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia; Glucocorticoids; Pulmonary hypoplasia; Rabbit model; Tracheal occlusion; Vascular morphometry

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DRUG EFFECT; FETUS; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG WEIGHT; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TRACHEA OBSTRUCTION;

ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; BLOOD VESSELS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; LUNG; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PLACEBOS; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TRACHEAL STENOSIS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 67650495844     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2243     Document Type: Article

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