Cerebral white matter blood flow and arterial blood pressure in preterm infants

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1489-1492

  Børch, Klaus ^a,b   Lou, Hans C ^c   Greisen, Gorm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Brain; Cerebral blood flow; Haemodynamics

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSCUTANEOUS CARBON DIOXIDE MONITORING; WHITE MATTER;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 77956384655     PISSN: 08035253     EISSN: 16512227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2010.01856.x     Document Type: Article

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