Heart, Lung and Circulation
Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 45-48 , February 2009

Pulmonary Haemorrhage Associated with Neonatal Neurological Disease

  • Abhay Lodha, MBBS, MD, DM, M.Sc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    • Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Foothills Medical Centre, Institute of Maternal & Child Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
    • Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Foothills Medical Centre, Rm C211, 1403-29th Street NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N2T9. Tel.: +1 403 944 8163; fax: +1 403 944 4892.
    • ,
  • Prakesh S. Shah, MD, MRCP, FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    • Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    • ,
  • Jonathan Hellmann, MBBCh, FCP (SA), FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Received 12 March 2008 ,Revised 3 July 2008 ,Accepted 5 July 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2008.07.001

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