Acid-base parameters for predicting magnetic resonance imaging measures of neurologic outcome after perinatal hypoxia-ischemia: Is the strong ion gap superior to base excess and lactate?

American Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 361-368

  Mann, Christian ^a,b   Latal, Beatrice ^b   Padden, Beth ^b   Scheer, Ianina ^b   Goebel, Georg ^c   Bernet, Vera ^b  

^a KANTONSSPITAL GRAUBÜNDEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

acidosis; asphyxia neonatorum; cerebral palsy; hypoxia ischemia; magnetic resonance imaging; strong ion gap

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ALKALOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINATAL HYPOXIA ISCHEMIA; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUERPERIUM; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ACID-BASE IMBALANCE; BRAIN; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; LACTIC ACID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84859790687     PISSN: 07351631     EISSN: 10988785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1300969     Document Type: Article

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