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Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Predict the Course of Necrotizing Enterocolitis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Schat Trijntje E, Schurink Maarten, van der Laan Michelle E, Hulscher Jan B F, Hulzebos Christian V, Bos Arend F, Kooi Elisabeth M W
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether cerebral, liver, and infraumbilical regional tissue oxygen saturation (rSO2) and fractional tissue oxygen extraction (FTOE) could be used to diagnose necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and complicated NEC (Bell's stage 3B or death) during its early stages. METHODS: A prospective observational cohort study of preterm infants with suspected or diagnosed NEC. We compared the mean...
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