This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

RUSSEL L. HADEN, M.D.; FRANK C. NEFF, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1924;28(4):458-463.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Numerous studies of the blood of new-born infants have established the fact that the red corpuscles and hemoglobin are much higher during this period than in adult life. The figures given by different observers vary, however, quite widely. This variation is especially striking in the hemoglobin determinations.

Lippman¹ has recently completely summarized the literature on the blood during the new-born period. He adds the results of his own study of the blood of seventy-one infants during the first 48 hours of life. This observer found the average red cell count at birth to be 5.2 million per cubic millimeter. At the end of six hours the average count had risen to 5.65 million, the increase being due seemingly to greater activity of the hemopoietic organs. At eighteen hours the count had fallen to 5.4 million, at which point it remained for the rest of the fortyeight hour period.

The . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
KANSAS CITY, KAN.

From the University of Kansas Medical School.

Footnotes
Received for publication, Aug. 6, 1924.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?