A pilot study on cord blood levels of erythropoietin and its relationship to periventricular leukomalacia in preterm infants.
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.
Okumura
Akihisa
A
Department of Pediatric, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. okumura@med.juntendo.ac.jp
Kidokoro
Hiroyuki
H
Kato
Toru
T
Kubota
Tetsuo
T
Hayakawa
Fumio
F
Kuno
Kuniyoshi
K
Watanabe
Kazuyoshi
K
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
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