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Endocrinologic Diseases in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care
- Source :
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 17:S296-S301
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2016.
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Abstract
- The objectives of this review are to discuss the pathophysiology, clinical impact and treatment of hyperglycemia, and disturbances in thyroid and adrenal function prior to and following cardiac surgery in children. MEDLINE and PubMed. Disturbances in glucose metabolism and thyroid and adrenal function are common in critically ill children with cardiac disease and in particular in children undergoing cardiac surgery for complex congenital heart disease. An understanding of the pathophysiology, clinical impact and treatment of these disturbances is essential for the management of these at risk patients.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Heart Diseases
Critical Illness
MEDLINE
Disease
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Endocrine System Diseases
Intensive Care Units, Pediatric
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Intensive care
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Cardiac Surgical Procedures
Complex congenital heart disease
Child
Intensive care medicine
Critically ill
business.industry
Coronary Care Units
Thyroid
Pathophysiology
Cardiac surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15297535
- Volume :
- 17
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b0c0a998859b8343e7d4e0d751e20117