Effects of Thyroxine Supplementation on Neurologic Development in Infants Born at Less Than 30 Weeks' Gestation
Open Access
- 2 January 1997
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 336 (1), 21-26
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199701023360104
Abstract
Premature infants who have transient hypothyroxinemia in the first weeks of life may have developmental delay and neurologic dysfunction. Whether thyroxine treatment during this period results in improved developmental outcomes is not known.Keywords
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