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Postnatal steroid treatment and brain development

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Dr Baud
Service de Néonatologie et Laboratoire de Neurobiologie du Développement, INSERM E9935, Hôpital Robert Debré, 48 bd sérurier, 75019 Paris, France; olivier.baud{at}rdb.ap-hop-paris.fr

ABSTRACT
This review examines the risk/benefit ratio of postnatal steroid treatment in preterm infants and correlates epidemiological data with experimental evidence on the effect of glucocorticosteroids on brain development.

Keywords: respiratory distress syndrome; intraventricular haemorrhage; bronchopulmonary dysplasia; periventricular leucomalacia; fetal inflammatory response syndrome

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