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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2016 Dec 2;26(1):26–31. doi: 10.1002/pds.4144

Table 2.

Clinical information for infants treated with octreotide for hyperinsulinism (N = 103)

Variable Median Range No. of
patients
Gestational age 38 weeks 28–40 weeks 84
Birth weight 3.7 kg 1.0–5.6 kg 50
Age at study entry 15.2 weeks 0.9–313.2 weeks 103
Weight at study entry 6.4 kg 2.3–31.4 kg 103
Hospital length of stay 24.5 days 1–90 days 102
Octreotide daily dose 8.96 mcg/kg 1.33–96 mcg/kg 100
Octreotide duration 8 days 1–84 days 103
Gestational age breakdown
28 to <31 weeks* 1
31 to <34 weeks 5
34 to <37 weeks 19
37 to <40 weeks 55
≥40 weeks 4
Not recorded 19
*

28-week gestational age infant was not administered octreotide until 93 days of age.