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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Enterocolitis"”.
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Mapping the Gut Microbiota and its Protective Functions Against Bacterial Enterocolitis
… microbiota in determining outcomes of bacterial enterocolitis caused by Salmonella Typhimurium and Clostridioides difficile. Through this work, Enterocloster clostridioformis was identified as a novel resistance-inducing microbe against Salmonella infection. This phenotype is potentially mediated …
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Infant neurodevelopment and parental psychosocial functioning in pediatric food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome
<p>Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) is a non-immunoglobulin-E-mediated food allergy characterized by severe gastrointestinal symptoms within hours of food trigger ingestion. FPIES typically presents in infancy, and some babies have multiple triggers that are difficult to …
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Impact of nighttime versus daytime emergency surgery on the outcome of necrotising enterocolitis
Background Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is the most common neonatal gastrointestinal surgical emergency, with a high mortality. We hypothesised that nighttime (NT) surgery was associated with higher mortality, intra-operative adverse events (AE) and post operative complications. Objectives To …
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Evolución de la mortalidad por enterocolitis necrosante en Colombia en el período de 1998 a 2018
Introducción: La enterocolitis necrosante (ECN) es la emergencia gastrointestinal más común en el neonato y es una causa importante de mortalidad para los recién nacidos de muy bajo peso al nacer. Hasta la fecha no se han realizado estudios sobre la mortalidad de ECN en Colombia. Objetivos: …
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Eficacia del factor estimulante de colonias de granulocitos en el manejo de la enterocolitis neutropénica en pediatría
Antecedentes: La enterocolitis neutropénica es una complicación que se presenta en niños tratados con quimioterapia. Se ha propuesto dentro del manejo el uso del factor estimulante de colonias de granulocitos. Sin embargo, no se ha realizado una revisión sistemática para evaluar su eficacia. …
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A two-year review of necrotising enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants (<1500g) in a South African tertiary hospital
… who develop moderate to severe necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) and their outcomes. Methods: A retrospective folder review of VLBWs who developed Modified Bell’s stage II NEC or higher at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) nursery between January 2012 and December 2013 was performed. Outcomes were …
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CT Evaluation of Acut Abdominal Painin Patientswit Acute Leukemia
… in patients with leukemia such as neutropenic enterocolitis, leukemic infiltration of GI tract, and infectious enterocolitis. However, many imaging finding of such diseases can have overlapping findings. The purpose of this study was to evaluate clinical data and CT features of acute abdominal …
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The short-term outcomes of HIV-exposed versus HIV-unexposed very low birth weight infants
… disease [OR 5.49 (1.31-23)] and more necrotising enterocolitis [OR 4.12 (1.02-17.18)]. Conclusion: This study is the first to compare the short-term outcomes of HIV exposed and HIV unexposed very low birth weight infants and consider maternal ARV exposure. It demonstrated no difference in birth …
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An analysis of neonatal mortality following gastro-intestinal and/or abdominal surgery in a tertiary hospital in South Africa
… bowel length (12%); in patients with necrotizing enterocolitis, intestinal atresia and malrotation with volvulus, ventilation associated pneumonia (10%), associated congenital cardiac lesions (3%) and intestinal failure associated liver disease (1%). Most neonates (69%) who died were prematurely …
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Rapid versus slow rate advancement of feeds for enterally fed extremely low birth weight infants < 1000g: randomised controlled trial
… be involved in the pathogenesis of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). Objective 1. To review randomised controlled trials (RCT); examining the effect that the rate of advancement of enteral feeds has on the incidence of; NEC, mortality, growth, health care utilisation and other morbidities in very …
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Enterostoma im Kindesalter
… were intestinal obstruction and Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC). More than half of the children were less than one month of age at the time of surgery. I observed an overall complication rate of 48.5% following enterostomy formation with stoma prolapse being the most common, but faced major …
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Comparative analysis of Cronobactor sp. with respect to genomic diversity and physiology
… life-threatening diseases such as necrotizing enterocolitis and meningitis. This study for the first time presents growth data and whole genome comparisons for five different species of Cronobacter after the taxonomic revision by Iversen et al. (2008). Growth data for 28 bacterial strains …
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Dietary Intake and Bio-activation of Nitrite and Nitrate in Newborn Infants
… of newborn diseases such as necrotizing enterocolitis and hypoxic/ischemic injury are yet to be determined.</p>
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The perinatal and obstetric outcomes of triplet conceptions at Groote Schuur Hospital in the five-year period: 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2016
… intraventricular haemorrhage and necrotising enterocolitis. The secondary objective was to review maternal complications and outcomes, including anaemia, hyperemesis gravidarum, hypertensive disorders, gestational diabetes, preterm labour, antepartum and postpartum haemorrhage and operative …
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The role of GDNF and its receptor GFRa1 in neuronal development and function
… congenital Hirschsprung’s disease and associated enterocolitis phenotype with 100 % penetrance. We were also able to shed light in the chronology of events in the pathogenesis of Hirschsprung’s disease associated enterocolitis: first goblet cell dysplasia accompanied by an abnormal mucin phenotype …
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Diversity and virulence of the genus Cronobacter revealed by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and comparative genomic analysis
… complications such as meningitis and necrotising enterocolitis in neonates and infants. In this study, a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) approach has been established to span the entire Cronobacter genus, by employing the alleles of 7 housekeeping genes (atpD, fusA, glnS, gltB, gyrB, infB and …
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Investigation of growth and stress tolerance characteristics of Cronobacter spp.
… infant milk formula (IMF), causing necrotizing enterocolitis, sepsis and meningitis in neonatal infants. The work presented in this thesis involved the investigation and characterisation of a bank of Cronobacter strains for their ability to tolerate physiologically relevant stress conditions …
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Describir los desenlaces de la implementación de un programa de optimización de antimicrobianos (PROA) en el uso de antibióticos en una unidad neonatal de alta complejidad en Bogotá antes y después de su creación
… y en los desenlaces como la presentación de enterocolitis necrotizante y de choque séptico. Conclusión: los programas de optimización de antimicrobianos (PROA) generan un impacto positivo en las unidades neonatales con respecto a guía y uso de antibióticos, manejo de resistencia microbiana y …
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Abdominal surgery in very low birth weight neonates in a developing world neonatal unit- Short term outcomes and risk factors for mortality
… and 1102g (SD 197.8) respectively. Necrotizing enterocolitis was the most common (50%) surgical emergency. The leading postoperative complication was sepsis (37%). Fourty-two (81%) infants survived to discharge, the mean age at presentation 21 days (SD 21.1) with a mean hospital stay of 74 days …
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