An infant with trisomy 18 and a ventricular septal defect

Pediatrics

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 754-759

  Janvier, Annie ^a,b   Okah, Felix ^c,d   Farlow, Barbara ^e   Lantos, John D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e DeVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOBARBITAL;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COUNSELING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EXTUBATION; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SUPPORT GROUP; SURVIVAL RATE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRISOMY 18;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PARENTAL CONSENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRISOMY; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 79953323665     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-1971     Document Type: Article

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