Thromboelastographic profiles of healthy very low birthweight infants serially during their first month.

Genny RaffaeliArmando TripodiGiacomo CavallaroValeria CortesiErica ScalambrinoNicola PesentiAndrea ArtoniFabio A Mosca Stefano Ghirardello

Published in: Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition (2019)

Healthy VLBWIs have a prolonged PT and APTT, but their TEG profiles suggest a relatively balanced hemostatic system, with slight hypocoagulability initially (compared with term neonates), gradually evolving to a somewhat more procoagulant phenotype over the first month.

Keyphrases

gestational age
preterm infants
low birth weight
preterm birth