Risk factors associated with necrotising enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants in Malaysian neonatal intensive care units

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 826-831

  Boo, Nem Yun ^a   Cheah, Irene Guat Sim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

^b HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Necrotising enterocolitis; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INDOMETACIN; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; DEATH; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; MALAYSIA; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALAYSIA; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84871701384     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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