Platelet-activating factor concentrations in healthy and septic neonates
Articles > Article · 1999
Authors: NİLGÜN KÜLTÜRSAY, Mehmet KANTAR, Mete AKISU, Afig BERDELİ, IŞIL ÇOKER
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 1999, vol 158, pp 740-741
Summary
Platelet-activating factor levels were measured in nine preterm infants with Klebsiella pneumonia septicaemia, eight healthy preterm infants of similar gestational age and ten healthy full-term infants of the same postnatal age at sampling. The platelet-activating factor levels of the healthy preterm and term groups did not differ significantly, but were elevated compared to the other two groups in the septic preterm infants (P < 0.01).