Resumen

MENA MIRANDA, Vivian R.; RIVERON CORTEGUERA, Raúl L.; PEREZ CRUZ, José A.  y  DE LA PAZ FERNANDEZ, Bárbara. Factores de riesgo asociados a la mortalidad por enterocolitis necrotizante. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 1998, vol.70, n.2, pp.100-104. ISSN 0034-7531.

Necrotizing enterocolitis is a gastrointestinal urgency of multifactorial cause taht is closely connected with the preterm neonatus. Its high mortality results from the lack of prevention on the part of the physician at any level of attention and from its late diagnosis in the risk groups. A retrospective study of 63 patients who died of necrotizing enterocolitis during a period of 25 years at the Pediatric Teaching Hospital of Central Havana was conducted. It was found that 71.4 % of the affected were white and 68.2 % were males. It was more frequent among those under 3 months (36.5 %). 46 % of the total of the sample studied had a birth weight of less than 1 500 g. Prematurity appeared associated in 55 % of the dead, whereas 65 % had a mixed lactation since their birth.

Palabras clave : ENTEROCLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS [mortality]; RISK FACTORS.

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