Effects of ghrelin on growth and cardiac function in infants with congenital heart disease

Pediatrics International

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 358-361

  Kitamura, Tomohiro ^a   Shimizu, Toshiaki ^a   Ohkawa, Natsuki ^a   Oda, Hisayuki ^a   Ohtsuki, Masahiro ^a   Kishiro, Masahiko ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Ghrelin; Heart failure; Insulin like growth factor; Leptin

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; LEPTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GHRELIN; GROWTH; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; LEPTIN; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOMATOMEDINS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77953628448     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2009.02966.x     Document Type: Article

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