Predictors of mortality and morbidity in extremely low birth weight neonates
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Predictors of mortality and morbidity in extremely low birth weight neonates.
In this issue of Indian Pediatrics, Mukhopadhyay and colleagues [1] report predictors of mortality and morbidity in extremely low birth weight infants (ELBW) in a single teaching hospital in India. In a prospective analysis of 255 ELBW, > 23 weeks gestation infants, 149 infants with a mean gestational age of 29 (+2.6) weeks received intensive care. Infants were not offered intensive care due to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Pediatrics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0019-6061,0974-7559
DOI: 10.1007/s13312-013-0291-x