Impaired Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Very Preterm Infants: Much Too Easy to Blame It Just on Morphine!

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC; Departments of Pediatrics, Integrative Systems Biology, Pharmacology, and Physiology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC; George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC; Division of Pediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University of Basel Children's Hospital, Basel, Switzerland; Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: jvandena@cnmc.org.
² Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Editorial

Johannes N van den Anker et al. J Pediatr. 2016 May.

. 2016 May:172:7-8.

doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.01.071. Epub 2016 Feb 16.

¹ Division of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC; Departments of Pediatrics, Integrative Systems Biology, Pharmacology, and Physiology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC; George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC; Division of Pediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University of Basel Children's Hospital, Basel, Switzerland; Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: jvandena@cnmc.org.
² Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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Comment on

Smaller Cerebellar Growth and Poorer Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Very Preterm Infants Exposed to Neonatal Morphine.
Zwicker JG, Miller SP, Grunau RE, Chau V, Brant R, Studholme C, Liu M, Synnes A, Poskitt KJ, Stiver ML, Tam EW. Zwicker JG, et al. J Pediatr. 2016 May;172:81-87.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2015.12.024. Epub 2016 Jan 4. J Pediatr. 2016. PMID: 26763312 Free PMC article.