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Immediate effects

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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Short term effects include the following:

  • neurologic - encephalopathy
    • irritability and abnormal tone
    • hypoglycaemia, hypocalcaemia, hyponatraemia - fits
    • hypoventilation or hyperventilation, with acidosis
    • intraventricular haemorrhage
  • pulmonary
    • haemorrhage
    • respiratory distress syndrome
    • aspiration
  • renal
    • tubular necrosis, with acute renal failure
    • renal vein thrombosis
    • syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion
  • gastrointestinal
    • perforation, ileus, necrotising enterocolitis
  • hepatic - hepatitis
  • reticuloendothelial - disseminated intravascular coagulation

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