Necrotizing Enterocolitis: Treatment Based on Staging Criteria

Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis is the most important cause of acquired gastrointestinal morbidity or mortality among low birthweight infants. Prematurity alone is probably the only identifiable risk factor. Although the etiology is unknown NEC has many similarities to an infectious disease. Prop...

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Autores principales: Walsh, Michele C., Kliegman, Robert M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 1986
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7131118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3081865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0031-3955(16)34975-6
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description Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis is the most important cause of acquired gastrointestinal morbidity or mortality among low birthweight infants. Prematurity alone is probably the only identifiable risk factor. Although the etiology is unknown NEC has many similarities to an infectious disease. Proper staging helps improve reporting and the management of NEC.
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spelling pubmed-71311182020-04-08 Necrotizing Enterocolitis: Treatment Based on Staging Criteria Walsh, Michele C. Kliegman, Robert M. Pediatr Clin North Am Article Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis is the most important cause of acquired gastrointestinal morbidity or mortality among low birthweight infants. Prematurity alone is probably the only identifiable risk factor. Although the etiology is unknown NEC has many similarities to an infectious disease. Proper staging helps improve reporting and the management of NEC. Elsevier Inc. 1986-02 2016-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7131118/ /pubmed/3081865 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0031-3955(16)34975-6 Text en Copyright © 1986 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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