Clinical determinants of postoperative outcomes in surgical necrotizing enterocolitis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Investigate predictors of postoperative morbidity and mortality in surgical NEC.

Study design

We analyzed the clinical outcomes of infants with surgical NEC from the years 2000-2015.

Results

Ninety infants born at gestation (mean ± standard deviation, SD; standard error of mean, SEM) 27.3 ± 6.6 weeks (SEM ± 0.07 weeks) and weighing 1008 ± 456 g (SEM ± 48 g) developed NEC on 25.2 ± 22.4 days (SEM ± 2.4 days). Average bowel resection was 29.2 ± 30.5 cm (SEM ± 3.2 cm). Postoperative Ileus lasted 16.5 ± 12.2 days (SEM ± 1.3 days), and was significantly longer in infants with higher gestation and birth weight, age at onset of NEC, length of intestinal resection, maternal chorioamnionitis, and need for pressors. Thirty-eight (42.2%) infants died. Mortality was hig

SUBMITTER: Garg PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10308194 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature