Nucleated red blood cells in preterm infants who have necrotizing enterocolitis

Dror Mandel; Ronit Lubetzky; Francis B Mimouni; Shlomi Cohen; Yoav Littner; Varda Deutsch; Shaul Dollberg

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2004.01.055

Nucleated red blood cells in preterm infants who have necrotizing enterocolitis

J Pediatr. 2004 May;144(5):653-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2004.01.055.

Authors

Dror Mandel¹, Ronit Lubetzky, Francis B Mimouni, Shlomi Cohen, Yoav Littner, Varda Deutsch, Shaul Dollberg

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neonatology, Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel.

PMID: 15127005
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2004.01.055

Abstract

Absolute nucleated red blood cell counts for 23 preterm newborn infants who subsequently had development of necrotizing enterocolitis were significantly higher than for 23 control infants. These infants may have been exposed to relative intrauterine hypoxemia, a possible risk factor for the development of necrotizing enterocolitis.

MeSH terms

Case-Control Studies
Enterocolitis, Necrotizing / blood*
Enterocolitis, Necrotizing / epidemiology
Erythroblasts / metabolism*
Erythrocyte Count
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature* / blood
Israel / epidemiology
Regression Analysis
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors