A role for abdominal ultrasound in discriminating suspected necrotizing enterocolitis in congenital heart disease patients

A role for abdominal ultrasound in discriminating suspected necrotizing enterocolitis in congenital heart disease patients

Purpose: We evaluated the diagnostic utility of abdominal ultrasound (AUS), an adjunct to abdominal X-ray (AXR), for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in congenital heart disease (CHD) patients. Methods: 86 patients with suspected NEC from 2009 to 2018 were classified as with CHD (n = 18) if they requ...

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Main Authors: Castro-Aragon, I.M (Author), Chen, C. (Author), Estroff, J.A (Author), Fujii, A.M (Author), Lazow, S.P (Author), Parad, R.B (Author), Staffa, S.J (Author), Tracy, S.A (Author), Zurakowski, D. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH 2022
Subjects:
Abdominal radiograph
abdominal radiography
Abdominal ultrasound
adult
Article
bilious vomiting
Cardiac
clinical feature
comparative study
complication
congenital heart disease
Congenital heart disease
congenital heart malformation
demographics
diagnostic imaging
diagnostic value
echography
emphysema
Enterocolitis, Necrotizing
female
Fisher exact test
gestational age
Heart Defects, Congenital
high birth weight
human
Humans
hypotension
imaging
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Newborn, Diseases
major clinical study
male
necrotizing enterocolitis
Necrotizing enterocolitis
newborn
newborn disease
Pneumatosis
rank sum test
Retrospective Studies
retrospective study
risk factor
Ultrasonography
ultrasound
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