Necrotizing Enterocolitis Digestive Disorders Conditions and Diseases Child Health

Affects mainly premature babies and seriously ill neonates. It is the most common surgical emergency in newborns. NEC accounts for 15% of deaths in premature babies weighing less than 1500 grams. Overall death from those babies with NEC is 25%.

• eMedicine- Necrotizing Enterocolitis - Article by Shelley C Springer, MD, on this conditions and diseases disorder that mainly affects premature babies.
• MedlinePlus - Diagnosis and treatment of necrotizing enterocolitis.
• Texas Pediatric Surgical Associates - Necrotizing Enterocolitis - Provides definition, probable causes, signs and symptoms and conditions and diseases conditions and diseases management, with a special note for parents.

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