Portal gas in neonates; is it always surgical? A case report

BACKGROUND: Hepatic portal venous gas in infants is frequently due to late presentation of necrotizing enterocolitis which is considered a relative indicator for surgical intervention. CASE SUMMARY: A preterm baby underwent an umbilical catheter placement and discovered in abdominal radiograph to ha...

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Autor principal: Altokhais, Tariq Ibrahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7479558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953856
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v8.i17.3804
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description BACKGROUND: Hepatic portal venous gas in infants is frequently due to late presentation of necrotizing enterocolitis which is considered a relative indicator for surgical intervention. CASE SUMMARY: A preterm baby underwent an umbilical catheter placement and discovered in abdominal radiograph to have air in the portal venous system due to malpositioning of the umbilical catheter. CONCLUSION: Hepatic portal venous gas in infants without signs of necrotizing enterocolitis could result from malposition of umbilical venous catheter, and in that case, should be managed medically, with no need for surgical intervention.
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spelling pubmed-74795582020-09-18 Portal gas in neonates; is it always surgical? A case report Altokhais, Tariq Ibrahim World J Clin Cases Case Report BACKGROUND: Hepatic portal venous gas in infants is frequently due to late presentation of necrotizing enterocolitis which is considered a relative indicator for surgical intervention. CASE SUMMARY: A preterm baby underwent an umbilical catheter placement and discovered in abdominal radiograph to have air in the portal venous system due to malpositioning of the umbilical catheter. CONCLUSION: Hepatic portal venous gas in infants without signs of necrotizing enterocolitis could result from malposition of umbilical venous catheter, and in that case, should be managed medically, with no need for surgical intervention. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2020-09-06 2020-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7479558/ /pubmed/32953856 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v8.i17.3804 Text en ©The Author(s) 2020. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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Portal gas in neonates; is it always surgical? A case report
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title_full Portal gas in neonates; is it always surgical? A case report
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title_full_unstemmed Portal gas in neonates; is it always surgical? A case report
title_short Portal gas in neonates; is it always surgical? A case report
title_sort portal gas in neonates; is it always surgical? a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7479558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953856
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v8.i17.3804
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