Successful treatment of liver hemorrhage in the premature infant.
Intraoperative neonatal liver hemorrhage usually results in exsanguination and death. The parenchyma of a neonatal liver is fragile, and the capsule is very thin, unlike that in the pediatric and adult patient. This renders the treatment of a neonatal liver fracture almost universally unsuccessful. The current report describes two cases of successful management of intraoperative neonatal liver hemorrhage during surgery for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).
Strear
C M
CM
Fetal Treatment Center, Department of General Surgery, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA.
Graf
J L
JL
Albanese
C T
CT
Harrison
M R
MR
Jennings
R W
RW
D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D015718:Fibrin Tissue Adhesive / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006490:Hemostatics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000628:therapy*; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D013917:Thrombin / Q000627:therapeutic use
D015718:Fibrin Tissue Adhesive; D006490:Hemostatics; D013917:Thrombin