Neonates living with enterostomy following necrotising enterocolitis are at high risk of becoming severely underweight.

Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is often managed with a temporary enterostomy. Neonates with enterostomy are at risk of growth retardation during critical neurodevelopment. We examined their growth using z-score.

Abdominal ultrasound should become part of standard care for early diagnosis and management of necrotising enterocolitis: a narrative review.

Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is a leading cause of death and disability in preterm newborns. Early diagnosis through non-invasive investigations is a crucial strategy that can significantly improve outcomes. Hence, this review gives particular attention to the emerging role of abdominal ultrasound (AUS) in the early diagnosis of NEC, its performance against abdominal radiograph and the benefits of AUS use in daily practice.

Predictors of nephrological morbidity after coronary artery bypass surgery.

Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse the nephrological morbidity after myocardial revascularization.

Methods And Results: We analysed the pre- per and postoperative data of 3815 patients who underwent a primary isolated coronary bypass grafting between January 1987 and December 1995. Nephrological complications were divided into renal dysfunction and requiring dialysis.

Discriminative ability of conventional echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging techniques for the detection of subclinical cardiotoxic effects of treatment with anthracyclines.

This study investigated improvement of diagnosing myocardial damage caused by anthracyclines using tissue Doppler imaging (TDI). The optimal set of conventional echocardiographic and/or TDI parameters, needed for the discrimination of survivors from healthy controls, was retrospectively assessed. A total of 60 patients and 99 controls, age range 8.

Sternal wound complications after primary isolated myocardial revascularization: the importance of the post-operative variables.

Objective: Select pre-, peri-, and post-operative variables, predictive for sternal wound complications (SWC), in a clinical setting.

Methods: We analyzed pre-, peri-, and post-operative data of 3815 patients who underwent a primary isolated bypass grafting. 100 patients (2.