Predicting risk factors for postoperative intestinal stenosis in neonates with necrotizing enterocolitis: development and assessment of a predictive nomogram

Yang Chen, Ling Zhou, Qianghui Liao, Dong Xiao, Ledao Zhu, Jinlong Yao, Jiashu Liu, Xuling Zhang, Xiaopeng Ma, Feng Ren, Zhiyong Wang · 2024

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Yang Chen and co-authors build a prediction chart for gut narrowing after surgery in newborns with a severe intestinal disease in a 2024 study. Necrotizing enterocolitis can force emergency surgery, and a later narrowing of the bowel is a feared sequel. The team gathered records of operated newborns and searched for early warning signs.

A variable-selection method picked seven predictors: admission weight, bloody stool, days of abnormal inflammation marker, lactate level, lost bowel movement, operation type, and surgery length. These feed a nomogram whose accuracy, calibration, and clinical usefulness were checked with bootstrap validation. Babies joined by direct reconnection fared differently from those given a stoma, a contrast the model captures. The authors offer the chart to flag high-risk infants for closer watching and earlier intervention.

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CREATORYang Chen, Ling Zhou, Qianghui Liao, Dong Xiao, Ledao Zhu, Jinlong Yao, Jiashu Liu, Xuling Zhang, Xiaopeng Ma, Feng Ren, Zhiyong Wang
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE19 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11608343

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