Necrotizing enterocolitis is a gastrointestinal emergency typical of premature infants. Intestinal strictures infrequently complicate medical or surgical treatment of necrotizing enterocolitis. Postnatal cytomegalovirus infection with gastrointestinal linvolvement has occasionally been described in subjects with necrotizing enterocolitis. We report the case of a full term infant presenting necr...

Background: Necrotizing enterocolitis is one of the serious complications of prematurity. Eosinophilia has not been proposed as a classical laboratory abnormality in NEC. Previous studies suggest that eosinophilia during NEC may be a sign of allergic enterocolitis. Case presentation: We present a premature neonate with birth weight of 1280 grams with abdominal distention, bilious gastric resid...

In 20 cases of ischaemic enterocolitis unassociated with lesions of major vessels, fresh thrombi were found in the small vessels of the bowel wall and were widespread in other tissues. The capillaries of the renal glomeruli and vessels in the lung were the commonest sites. Pseudo-membranous enterocolitis is shown to be an early or more slowly evolving but identical entity to other forms of so-c...

it is now generally recognized that anaerobic bacteria may be involved in most human bacterial infections that follow any form of surgery or are related to those body sites that have a large anaerobic population. anaerobes must therefore be sought in a wide variety of clinical specimens. in this study, 3015 specimens of patients (1684 male and 1331 female) with periodontitis (160 cases), abcess...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the current clinical presentation and management of neutropenic enterocolitis. DESIGN Retrospective review of records of oncology unit patients requiring general surgical consultation for abdominal complaints in a 1-year period. SETTING Oncology unit of a tertiary care, university teaching hospital. PATIENTS AND INTERVENTIONS Fourteen patients diagnosed as having...

BACKGROUND Cytomegalovirus (CMV) enterocolitis is an uncommon intestinal disorder of newborns that is often initially misdiagnosed as necrotizing enterocolitis. METHODS We treated a premature twin boy with CMV enterocolitis who presented with abdominal compartment syndrome requiring urgent decompression. All patients with neonatal CMV enterocolitis reported were reviewed. RESULTS Nine previ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis is a disease of unknown origin. Epidemiological observations emphasize the potential roles of  infection, enteric feeding and local vascular compromise of the Gastrointestinal tract in the pathogenesis of this disease. Clinical findings include signs of sepsis , plus abdominal distention , vomiting, bloody stool and occasionally , signs of intestinal perforation and pe...

pseudomembrane colitis (pmc) and antibiotic associated colitis (aac) are acute disease of the colon. in the case of in adequate treatment, the disease will often become chronic and my lead to the dysplasia of the epithelial cells of the infected areas. previously because of poor knowledge. treatment in this case, one of the method for treatment was surgical ablation of the large intestine while...

Necrotizing enterocolitis is common in preterm and low birth weight infants but rare beyond the neonatal period. Various infectious agents including bacterial and viral organisms have been implicated in its pathogenesis. Rotavirus has recently been shown to be associated with necrotizing enterocolitis. In this report we describe two irlfants with congenital cardiac disease who developed ficlmin...