Use of donor milk in the neonatal intensive care unit

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 23-29

  de Halleux, Virginie ^a   Pieltain, Catherine ^a   Senterre, Thibault ^a   Rigo, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Donor milk; Human milk; Milk bank; Preterm infants

Indexed keywords

BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; COST CONTROL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DONOR; DONOR MILK; DOSE RESPONSE; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MILK ALLERGY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PASTEURIZATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT NUTRITION; MILK BANK; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY;

HUMANS; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MILK BANKS; MILK, HUMAN;

EID: 84994512660     PISSN: 1744165X     EISSN: 18780946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2016.08.003     Document Type: Review

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