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 common long-term medical and neurodevelopmental sequelae identified in NEC survivors and presents a practical approach to the clinical follow-up of these infants.
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Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
D002657:Child Development; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000209:etiology; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology; D012778:Short Bowel Syndrome / Q000209:etiology