Incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in very-low-birth-weight infants related to the use of Lactobacillus GG

2010 ◽  
Vol 99 (8) ◽  
pp. 1135-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Luoto ◽  
J Matomäki ◽  
E Isolauri ◽  
L Lehtonen
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Necrotizing Enterocolitis ◽  
Very Low Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants ◽  
Lactobacillus Gg

Unsuspected Hyperosmolality of Oral Solutions Contributing to Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-538
Author(s):  
DIANA M. WILLIS ◽  
JOANN CHABOT ◽  
INGEBORG C. RADDE ◽  
GRAHAM W. CHANCE
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Necrotizing Enterocolitis ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Very Low Birth Weight ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants ◽  
Umbilical Vessel ◽  
Causative Factors ◽  
Nutritional Studies

In recent years necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) has become a major problem in neonatal intensive care units. Recent incidences as high as 8% in all infants with a birth weight less than 2.5 kg and 14% in those with a birth weight less than 1.5 kg have been reported from one center.1Despite intensive searches for possible causative factors, no definite entity has been identified, but asphyxia,2 circulatory changes associated with exchange transfusion,3 umbilical vessel catheterization,4 immature immune status,5infection,6-8 and hypertonic feedings9 have all been implicated. In the course of a series of nutritional studies involving thriving very-low-birth-weight infants we

Cost-effectiveness of probiotics for necrotizing enterocolitis prevention in very low birth weight infants

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 1652-1661
Author(s):  
Atoosa F. Craighead ◽  
Aaron B. Caughey ◽  
Anoshua Chaudhuri ◽  
Leah Yieh ◽  
Alyssa R. Hersh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Necrotizing Enterocolitis ◽  
Very Low Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants

Intestinal perforation in very-low-birth-weight infants with necrotizing enterocolitis

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 562-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nehama Linder ◽  
Naama Hammel ◽  
Adriana Hernandez ◽  
Elena Fridman ◽  
Elena Dlugy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Necrotizing Enterocolitis ◽  
Intestinal Perforation ◽  
Very Low Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants
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