Bladder wall necrosis in an extremely low-birth-weight infant: a thought-provoking complication of necrotizing enterocolitis.
Publication/Presentation Date
4-1-2004
Abstract
An 879-g baby boy had catastrophic necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) at 29 days of life and underwent surgical laparotomy with a subsequent ileostomy and peritoneal drain placement. The infant was subsequently stable until 42 days of life when a spontaneous perforation of the bladder apex was diagnosed by a suprapubic cystogram. Laparotomy on day of life 46 found a loop of dead bowel herniating into a necrotic hole of the bladder dome. This case shows a previously unreported complication of NEC and discusses the possibility that prolonged use of a peritoneal drain may have permitted its genesis.
Volume
39
Issue
4
First Page
623
Last Page
625
ISSN
1531-5037
Published In/Presented At
Swanson, J. R., Ciambotti, J. M., Rodgers, B. M., Roth, J. A., & Gordon, P. V. (2004). Bladder wall necrosis in an extremely low-birth-weight infant: a thought-provoking complication of necrotizing enterocolitis. Journal of pediatric surgery, 39(4), 623–625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2003.12.033
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
15065042
Department(s)
Department of Surgery
Document Type
Article