The Journal of pediatrics
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The Journal of pediatrics · Dec 1998
Regional hemodynamic effects of dopamine in the sick preterm neonate.
To study the effects of dopamine on renal, mesenteric, and cerebral blood flow in sick preterm neonates. ⋯ These findings suggest a functionally mature renal, but not mesenteric, vasodilatory dopaminergic response in the preterm neonate. The observations also indicate the lack of an effect of low- to medium-dose dopamine on cerebral hemodynamics in the nonhypotensive preterm neonate.