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...

BACKGROUND Patent ductus arteriosus is a risk factor for the development of necrotizing enterocolitis. The use of indomethacin to treat patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants may either decrease the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis by stabilizing or closing the ductus arteriosus or increase its incidence by a direct constricting effect on mesenteric blood vessels. The authors sought ...

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...

nec is inflammatory necrosis of intestine with most common site being terminal ileum and ascending colon in preterm babies (1). the condition is typically seen in premature infants, and the timing of its onset is generally inversely proportional to the gestational age of the baby at birth, i.e. the earlier a baby is born, longer is the time of risk for nec in premature babies. the incidence of ...

31 Jackman S, Brereton RJ, Wright VM. Results of surgical treatment of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis. BrJ Surg 1990, 77: 146-8. 32 Smith SD, Tagge EP, Miller J, Cheu H, Sukarochana K, Rowe MI. The hidden mortality in surgically treated necrotizing enterocolitis: fungal sepsis. J Pediatr Surg 1990; 25: 1030-3. 33 Cikrit D, Mastandrea J, West KW, Schreiner RL, Grosfeld JL. Necrotizing entero...

31 Jackman S, Brereton RJ, Wright VM. Results of surgical treatment of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis. BrJ Surg 1990, 77: 146-8. 32 Smith SD, Tagge EP, Miller J, Cheu H, Sukarochana K, Rowe MI. The hidden mortality in surgically treated necrotizing enterocolitis: fungal sepsis. J Pediatr Surg 1990; 25: 1030-3. 33 Cikrit D, Mastandrea J, West KW, Schreiner RL, Grosfeld JL. Necrotizing entero...