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- Title
Surgical Necrotizing Enterocolitis versus Spontaneous Intestinal Perforation in White Matter Injury on Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
- Authors
Shin, Seung Han; Kim, Ee-Kyung; Yoo, Hani; Choi, Young Hun; Kim, Saeyun; Lee, Byoung Kook; Jung, Young Hwa; Kim, Hyun-Young; Kim, Han-Suk; Choi, Jung-Hwan
- Abstract
Background: White matter injury (WMI) is the most common form of brain injury in preterm infants. It could be induced by a systemic inflammatory response in preterm infants. Objectives: We hypothesized that surgical necrotizing enterocolitis (surgNEC) results in more severe WMI than spontaneous intestinal perforation (SIP) on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at term-equivalent age (TEA). Methods: The medical records of 33 preterm infants born at less than 32 weeks of gestation who underwent surgery due to either NEC or SIP were reviewed retrospectively. White matter abnormality (WMA) on brain MRI was scored according to the diagnosis of surgNEC or SIP. Results: Nine patients were diagnosed with SIP and 24 with surgNEC. The median (range) gestational age of the SIP and surgNEC groups was 26+6 (23+3 -27+6) and 25+5 weeks (23+3 -31+2), respectively (p =0.454). There were no differences in 1- and 5-min Apgar scores, mode of delivery, use of antenatal steroids, histologic chorioamnionitis, or incidence of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) between the two groups. Males were more prevalent in the surgNEC group (75.0 vs. 33.3%, p = 0.044), and the incidence of sepsis was higher in the surgNEC group than in the SIP group (75.0 vs. 33.3%, p = 0.044). Multivariate regression showed that the difference in WMA scores between the two groups remained significant (estimated difference = 2.418; 95% CI 0.107-4.729). Conclusion: In preterm infants at less than 32 weeks of gestation, those with surgNEC showed more severe WMI than infants with SIP on brain MRI at TEA.
- Subjects
MAGNETIC resonance imaging; INTESTINAL perforation; ENTEROCOLITIS; BRAIN injuries; PREMATURE infants
- Publication
Neonatology (16617800), 2016, Vol 110, Issue 2, p148
- ISSN
1661-7800
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000444387