Associations Between "Early" Red Blood Cell Transfusion and Severe Intraventricular Hemorrhage, and Between "Late" Red Blood Cell Transfusion and Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 283-289

  Christensen, Robert D ^a  

^a Women and Newborns Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Cord stripping; Delayed cord clamping; Intraventricular hemorrhage; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PH; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMATOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; HUMAN; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UMBILICAL CORD; UMBILICAL CORD CLAMPING; UMBILICAL CORD STRIPING; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ANEMIA, NEONATAL; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84863998646     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2012.04.009     Document Type: Review

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