Perforated necrotizing enterocolitis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in premature infants, and the optimal treatment is uncertain. We designed this multicenter randomized trial to compare ...

(HealthDay News) — For infants with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), peritoneal drainage followed by laparotomy is associated with reduced mortality but increased costs compared with peritoneal ...

To identify characteristics associated with definitive peritoneal drainage (PD) in the extremely low birth weight infant diagnosed with spontaneous intestinal perforation (SIP). We also sought to ...

Refractory ascites is a common complication of cirrhosis of the liver. Build-up of fluid causes difficulty in breathing, fatigue, nausea, poor appetite, acid reflux, abdominal pain and infection.

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating gastrointestinal disease occurring in 1% to 5% of all neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admissions. Although the majority of infants diagnosed with ...

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Of three surgical approaches for managing necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in infants, peritoneal drainage followed by laparotomy had relatively low mortality risk, at 35%, but at $398,173, the ...

Preoperative imatinib for locally advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST): CONVERT trial. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does ...