Follow-up for infants with necrotizing enterocolitis

Following discharge from the hospital, many infants who have survived acute necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remain at significant risk for continuing morbidity. Follow-up care of these infants is increasingly becoming the responsibility of the primary care physician. This article reviews the more co...

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Published in:	Clinics in perinatology Vol. 21; no. 2; p. 411
Main Author:	Simon, N P
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01-06-1994
Subjects:	Child Development Cholestasis - etiology Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - complications Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - physiopathology Growth Humans Infant, Newborn Intestinal Obstruction - etiology Short Bowel Syndrome - etiology
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Summary:	Following discharge from the hospital, many infants who have survived acute necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remain at significant risk for continuing morbidity. Follow-up care of these infants is increasingly becoming the responsibility of the primary care physician. This article reviews the more common long-term medical and neurodevelopmental sequelae identified in NEC survivors and presents a practical approach to the clinical follow-up of these infants.
ISSN:	0095-5108
DOI:	10.1016/S0095-5108(18)30353-1