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Evaluation of Treatment Thresholds for Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia in Preterm Infants: Effects on Serum Bilirubin and on Hearing Loss?

BACKGROUND: Severe unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia may cause deafness. In the Netherlands, 25% lower total serum bilirubin (TSB) treatment thresholds were recently implemented for preterm infants. OBJECTIVE: To determine the rate of hearing loss in jaundiced preterms treated at high or at low TSB th...

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Autores principales: Hulzebos, Christian V., van Dommelen, Paula, Verkerk, Paul H., Dijk, Peter H., Van Straaten, Henrica L. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3647062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23667532
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062858