Periventricular leukomalacia in very low birth weight preterm neonates with high risk for neonatal sepsis
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Periventricular leukomalacia in very low birth weight preterm neonates with high risk for neonatal sepsis.
OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) and neonatal sepsis in very low birth weight infants (VLBWI). METHODS We studied VLBWI with a clinical suspicion of infection who had been born at our institution between the 1st of August, 2005 and the 31st of July, 2007. Children were excluded if they died before reaching 14 days, had malformations of the ce...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal de Pediatria
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0021-7557
DOI: 10.2223/jped.1777