Dig. Dis. Sci. 2020 Feb 01
Necrotizing Enterocolitis: A Multi-omic Approach and the Role of the Microbiome.
Neu J
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a poorly defined disease that primarily affects preterm infants. There has not been much progress in the prevention ...
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J Perinatol 2020 Jan 31
The role of absolute monocyte counts in predicting severity of necrotizing enterocolitis.
Desiraju S, Bensadoun J, Bateman D, Kashyap S
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is an inflammatory bowel disease of preterm infants marked by an absolute monocyte count (AMC) drop in peripheral bloo ...
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Clin Perinatol
Neonatal and Infant Appendicitis.
Bence CM, Densmore JC
Neonatal appendicitis is a rare disease with a high mortality rate. Appendicitis is difficult to diagnose in neonatal and infant populations because i ...
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BMC Pediatr
Lactoferrin infant feeding trial_Canada (LIFT_Canada): protocol for a randomized trial of adding lactoferrin to feeds of very-low-birth-weight preterm infants.
Asztalos EV, Barrington K, Lodha A, Tarnow-Mordi W, Martin A
In Canada alone, almost 3000 VLBW infants are born and treated annually with almost 1200 going onto death or survival with severe brain injury, chroni ...
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Cochrane Database Syst Rev
Intravenous immunoglobulin for preventing infection in preterm and/or low birth weight infants.
Ohlsson A, Lacy JB
Nosocomial infections continue to be a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among preterm and/or low birth weight (LBW) infants. Preterm infan ...
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