• Medicine
• Published in
  Pediatrics international…
  2011
• DOI:10.1111/j.1442-200X.2010.03287.x

Thyroxine for transient hypothyroxinemia and cerebral palsy in extremely preterm infants.

@article{Suzumura2011ThyroxineFT,
  title={Thyroxine for transient hypothyroxinemia and cerebral palsy in extremely preterm infants.},
  author={Hiroshi Suzumura and Akihisa Nitta and Yayoi Tsuboi and Yoshiyuki Watabe and Ryouta Kuribayashi and Osamu Arisaka},
  journal={Pediatrics international : official journal of the Japan Pediatric Society},
  year={2011},
  volume={53 4},
  pages={
          463-7
        }
}

• Hiroshi Suzumura, Akihisa Nitta, +3 authors Osamu Arisaka

BACKGROUND The relationship of thyroxine supplementation for transient hypothyroxinemia of prematurity to the incidence of cerebral palsy (CP) in infants <28 weeks of gestation is unclear. METHODS The incidence of CP at a corrected age of 18 months was compared between infants born in a 3-year period in which routine measurement of free T4 (FT4) in the blood was not performed (first period, n= 54), and those born in a later 3-year period in which FT4 was measured (second period, n= 60; mainly… CONTINUE READING

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