Nucleated red blood cell counts: An early predictor of brain injury and 2-year outcome in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in the era of cooling-based treatment

Brain and Development

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 472-478

  Li, Jingang ^a,b   Kobata, Keisuke ^a   Kamei, Yoshiya ^a   Okazaki, Yoko ^a   Nishihara, Masato ^a   Wada, Hiroshi ^a   Tamai, Hiroshi ^a   Funato, Masahisa ^a   Jenkin, Graham ^b,c  

^a YODOGAWA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birth asphyxia; Early predictor; Hypothermia; Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy; Neurological outcome; Nucleated red blood cells

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM SULFATE;

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COOLING; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEATED RED BLOOD CELL COUNT; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; BRAIN; ERYTHROBLAST; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ERYTHROBLASTS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84901606689     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2013.06.012     Document Type: Article

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