Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis: clinical picture, diagnosis and therapy

There has been analyzed necrotizing enterocolitis - one of the most severe conditions in newborns. The causes and risk factors of the disease have been considered, and the peculiarities of pathogenesis and microbiological status of newborns have been demonstrated. There has been covered in detail the clinical picture of necrotizing enterocolitis, and have been considered its clinical stages underlying in the classification of the disease. The management selection is shown to depend on the severity and the process stage. Medical treatment is used in I and II stages. In III stage both medical and operative therapy is possible, and an emergency operation is indicated in IV stage. The operation of choice is the technique of applying decompression intestinal stomas by means of which the length of the intestine is kept and the risk of postoperative complications is reduced.