Postnatal steroid treatment and brain development (original) (raw)
Postnatal steroid treatment and brain development
- O Baud
- Correspondence to:
Dr Baud
Service de Néonatologie et Laboratoire de Neurobiologie du Développement, INSERM E9935, Hôpital Robert Debré, 48 bd sérurier, 75019 Paris, France; olivier.baudrdb.ap-hop-paris.fr
Abstract
This review examines the risk/benefit ratio of postnatal steroid treatment in preterm infants and correlates epidemiological data with experimental evidence on the effect of glucocorticosteroids on brain development.
- respiratory distress syndrome
- intraventricular haemorrhage
- bronchopulmonary dysplasia
- periventricular leucomalacia
- fetal inflammatory response syndrome
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