title: A pilot study on cord blood levels of erythropoietin and its relationship to periventricular leukomalacia in preterm infants.
abstract: This article reports the results of a study on the relationship between cord blood levels of erythropoietin and periventricular leukomalacia. Cord blood was obtained from 19 infants with gestational age between 27 and 32 weeks. Cystic periventricular leukomalacia was seen in 4 of them. Erythropoietin levels were not different between those with and those without periventricular leukomalacia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. okumura@med.juntendo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Akihisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Okumura
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kidokoro
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Tetsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.forename: Fumio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hayakawa
authors.forename: Kuniyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kuno
authors.forename: Kazuyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000097:blood*; D005312:Fetal Blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007969:Leukomalacia, Periventricular / Q000378:metabolism*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D047928:Premature Birth / Q000097:blood; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric
chemical_list: D004921:Erythropoietin