Probiotics supplementation increases intestinal blood flow velocity in extremely low birth weight preterm infants

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-44

  Havranek, T ^a   Al Hosni, M ^a   Armbrecht, E ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; intestinal blood flow; preterm neonate; probiotics

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; END DIASTOLIC BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ENTERIC FEEDING; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE BLOOD FLOW; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; NEWBORN; PEAK SYSTOLIC BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SUPPLEMENTATION; TIME AVERAGED MEAN BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTESTINES; MALE; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; PROBIOTICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84871751108     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: 14765543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jp.2012.37     Document Type: Article

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