Therapeutic hypothermia delays the C-reactive protein response and suppresses white blood cell and platelet count in infants with neonatal encephalopathy

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2014, Pages F458-F463

  Chakkarapani, Elavazhagan ^a   Davis, Jonathan ^a   Thoresen, Marianne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTACOID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

BLOOD; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METABOLISM; NEUTROPHIL; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHILS; PLATELET COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 84925020778     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305763     Document Type: Article

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