Podcast 645: Necrotizing Enterocolitis and More

Podcast 645: Necrotizing Enterocolitis and More

Contributor: Peter Bakes, MD

Educational Pearls:

  • Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)
    • Presents in the first few days of life (often in the NICU) to 3 weeks old
    • Risk factors include prematurity, excess feeding, neonatal sepsis
    • Pneumatosis Intestinalisis on abdominal xray caused by bacterial translocation into the bowel wall
    • Treated with NG tube, bowel rest and surgical resection
  • Other causes of pediatric abdominal pain
    • Malrotation with volvulus
      • Malrotation is caused by failure of intestinal rotation in the 8th-12th week of development
      • Presents with bilious vomiting, which is a surgical emergency in a neonate
      • 90% of cases present in the first year of life, with most of these presenting in the first month
      • Diagnosed with an upper GI series
    • Pyloric Stenosis
      • Typically in males <2 months of age who present with signs of dehydration in the setting of non-bilious vomiting
      • Diagnosed with abdominal ultrasound and treated surgically
    • Intussusception
      • Typically presents between 2 months and 2 years with a palpable mass in the RUQ
      • Diagnosed with abdominal ultrasound
    • Duodenal atresia
      • Congenital stricture in the duodenum
      • Presents with bilious vomiting and a double-bubble on abdominal xray

References

Alwan R, Drake M, Gurria Juarez J, Emery KH, Shaaban AF, Szabo S, Sobolewski B. A Newborn With Abdominal Pain. Pediatrics. 2017 Nov;140(5):e20164267. doi: 10.1542/peds.2016-4267. PMID: 29042421.

Hostetler MA, Schulman M. Necrotizing enterocolitis presenting in the Emergency Department: case report and review of differential considerations for vomiting in the neonate. J Emerg Med. 2001 Aug;21(2):165-70. doi: 10.1016/s0736-4679(01)00371-7. PMID: 11489407.

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