Neonatal polycythaemia: Critical review and a consensus statement of the Israeli Neonatology Association

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1290-1296

  Mimouni, Francis B ^a,b   Merlob, Paul ^b   Dollberg, Shaul ^b,c   Mandel, Dror ^b,c  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Exchange transfusion; Neonatal health care; Red blood cell

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; MAGNESIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROPOIESIS; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART FUNCTION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERVOLEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; IRRITABILITY; ISRAEL; MEDLINE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NERVOUSNESS; POLYCYTHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH DISORDER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD VISCOSITY; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; POLYCYTHEMIA;

EID: 80052853022     PISSN: 08035253     EISSN: 16512227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2011.02305.x     Document Type: Review

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