Necrotizing enterocolitis in term infants.

R A Polin; P F Pollack; B Barlow; H J Wigger; T L Slovis; T V Santulli; W C Heird

doi:10.1016/s0022-3476(76)80551-3

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Necrotizing enterocolitis in term infants.

R A Polin·P F Pollack·B Barlow·H J Wigger·T L Slovis·T V Santulli·W C Heird

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Despite the fact that necrotizing enterocolitis is considered a disease of premature infants, 20% of all affected infants at Babies Hospital over the past 20 years were products of term gestations. Two distinct subgroups of such infants were noted (1) five infants with congenital heart disease and/or congestive heart failure (e.g.hypoplastic left heart syndrome), all but one of whom developed the disease in the first week of life; (2) eight infants who developed the disease at a much later age after a protracted period of diarrhea. This histopathologic features of the disease in term infants are the same as those in premature infants. Further, the pathogenesis of the disease in term infants does not appear to differ basically from that in premature infants. These facts, lead away from the concept of NEC as a disease of simple etiology.

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Diarrhea, Infantile Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous Heart Defects, Congenital Heart Failure Humans Infant, Newborn Infant, Newborn, Diseases Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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R A Polin, P F Pollack, B Barlow, H J Wigger, T L Slovis, T V Santulli, W C Heird. 1976. Necrotizing enterocolitis in term infants.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-3476(76)80551-3

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