Infants Born with Down Syndrome: Burden of Disease in the Early Neonatal Period

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 193, Issue , 2018, Pages 21-26

  Martin, Therese ^a   Smith, Aisling ^a   Breatnach, Colm R ^a   Kent, Etaoin ^b   Shanahan, Ita ^b   Boyle, Michael ^a   Levy, Phillip T ^c,d   Franklin, Orla ^e   El Khuffash, Afif ^a,f  

^a ROTUNDA HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Atlantic Health   (United States)

^e OUR LADY S CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^f ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

admission; Down syndrome; morbidity; mortality; neonatal intensive care unit; pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE BURDEN; DOWN SYNDROME; DUODENUM ATRESIA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN PERIOD; OMPHALOCELE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PEDIATRIC WARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; COMPLICATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; COST OF ILLNESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT MORTALITY; IRELAND; MORTALITY; NURSERY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COHORT STUDIES; COST OF ILLNESS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; IRELAND; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NURSERIES, HOSPITAL; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85034952285     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.09.046     Document Type: Article

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