Follow-up for infants with necrotizing enterocolitis

Clin Perinatol. 1994 Jun;21(2):411-24.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Child Development
  • Cholestasis / etiology
  • Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / complications*
  • Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / physiopathology
  • Growth
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Intestinal Obstruction / etiology
  • Short Bowel Syndrome / etiology