Journal article
Pulmonary 18Fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in infants of very low birth weight with and without intrauterine inflammation
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: We compared early pulmonary (18)fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)FDG) uptake in infants who had very low birth weight with and without exposure to intrauterine inflammation by using positron emission tomography (PET). A secondary goal was to correlate (18)FDG uptake with later death or bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
METHODS: Within 72 hours of birth, 22 singleton infants between 25 and 30 weeks of gestation had a thoracic PET scan after …
Authors
Andersen C; Kent A; Schmidt B; Nahmias C; deSa D; Bourgeois J; Xing Z; Kirpalani H
Journal
The Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 143, No. 4, pp. 470–476
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
October 2003
DOI
10.1067/s0022-3476(03)00408-6
ISSN
0022-3476