Is neonatal antiretroviral therapy a risk factor for NEC occurrence?

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 108-110

  de Carolis, Maria Pia ^a   Lacerenza, Serafina ^a   de Luca, Daniele ^a   Bersani, Iliana ^a   Costa, Simonetta ^a   Romagnoli, Costantino ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antiretroviral therapy; Human immunodeficiency virus; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Newborn

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; ENFUVIRTIDE; GENTAMICIN; LAMIVUDINE; PORACTANT; RITONAVIR; STAVUDINE; STEROID; SULTAMICILLIN; TENOFOVIR; TIPRANAVIR; TRYPSIN; VANCOMYCIN; VIRUS DNA; ZIDOVUDINE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADD ON THERAPY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; APGAR SCORE; APNEA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DELAYED MECONIUM PASSAGE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERGLYCEMIA; ILEOSTOMY; ILEUM; INFANT; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER FAILURE; MATERNAL DISEASE; MECONIUM; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; UMBILICAL VEIN; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VEIN CATHETERIZATION; VIRUS LOAD; X RAY;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; PERISTALSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RISK FACTORS; ZIDOVUDINE;

EID: 77950383675     PISSN: 00414301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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