Successful first-line treatment with propranolol of multifocal infantile hepatic hemangioma with high-flow cardiac overload

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 693-695

  Sciveres, Marco ^a   Marrone, Gianluca ^a   Pipitone, Salvatore ^b   Riva, Silvia ^a   Spada, Marco ^a   Gridelli, Bruno ^a   Maggiore, Giuseppe ^a  

^a MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPLANTATION AND ADVANCED SPECIALIZED THERAPIES ISMETT   (Italy)

^b VILLA SOFIA CERVELLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPRANOLOL;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEPATOMEGALY; HIGH FLOW CARDIAC OVERLOAD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; MALNUTRITION; MULTIFOCAL INFANTILE HEPATIC HEMANGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY TRANSVALVULAR GRADIENT; PULMONARY VALVE; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; PROPRANOLOL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 82355168908     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: 15364801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPG.0b013e3182201a4e     Document Type: Article

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