Gastrointestinal perforations in neonatal period: experience over 10 years.

This report describes our experience concerning gastrointestinal perforation due to necrotizing enterocolitis during a 10-year period. The cases of 27 gastrointestinal perforations, which were treated in our hospital, were retrospectively reviewed. All patients were neonates and infants up to the age of 2 months. The study population consisted of 16 boys (59.3%) and 11 girls (40.7%). Twenty-one neonates (77.8%) were preterm, and the median gestational age was 28 weeks. Twenty-four cases (88.9%) of perforation underwent laparotomy. The overall mortality was 63%. Seventy-six percent of the preterm neonates and only 16.7% of the full-term neonates died. Gastrointestinal perforation is still connected with a high mortality rate, with necrotizing enterocolitis being the main cause of death. The neonates who did not undergo surgery all died.

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George Sakellaris, Nikolaos Partalis, Olga Dede, Athanasios Alegakis, Chrisa Seremeti, Eftichia Korakaki, Christina Giannakopoulou. Gastrointestinal perforations in neonatal period: experience over 10 years. Pediatric emergency care. 2012 Sep;28(9):886-8

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PMID: 22929145

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