CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE IN NEWBORN-INFANT AT BIRTH
CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE IN NEWBORN-INFANT AT BIRTH
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DOI:
10.1203/00006450-197708000-00007
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
BISTOLETTI, P
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作者:
LAGERCRANTZ, H;BISTOLETTI, P
Catecholamines were determined by a fluorimetric technique in umbilical blood which was collected from newborn infants immediately after birth. The mean catecholamine concentration was 62.1 nmol/l in the umbilical artery and 29.3 nmol/l in the umbilical vein of newborn full term infants delivered uneventfully. This value is considerably higher than in resting adults. Similar levels of catecholamines were seen after elective cesarean sections, whereas considerably higher levels were found after breech deliveries. In the full term asphyxiated infants about a 4-fold increase of the catecholamine concentration was found in both the umbilical arterial and venous blood. The amine concentration level correlated inversely to the pH below 7.25 (10log catecholamine concentration versus pH, r = 0.71). Preterm infants had, in general, lower amine levels than full term infants both after uneventful deliveries and after intrauterine asphyxia. The catecholamine levels were considerably increased in the newborn infants who showed some kind of abnormal fetal heart rate variation during the last hour before birth; in particular baseline changes were associated with high levels whereas only a moderate increase was seen after loss of beat-to-beat variation.