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Gharehbaghi G, Bordbar A, Mamishi S. Eosinophilia In A Case Of Necrotizing Enterocolitis, A case report. IJCA 2018; 4 (2)
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Aliasghar Children's Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences
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Background: Necrotizing enterocolitis is one of the serious complications of prematurity. Eosinophilia has not been proposed as a classical laboratory abnormality in NEC. Previous studies suggest that eosinophilia during NEC may be a sign of allergic enterocolitis.
Case presentation: We present a premature neonate with birth weight of 1280 grams with abdominal distention, bilious gastric residue and bloody stool, severe eosinophilia and pneumatosis intestinalis in abdominal X-ray that treated as necrotizing enterolitis and fully recovered without the management of allergic enterocolitis.
Conclusions: severe eosinophilia may be encountered during the episodes of NEC and it may propose the diagnosis of allergic enterocolitis but further studies is needed to clarify this association.
Case presentation: We present a premature neonate with birth weight of 1280 grams with abdominal distention, bilious gastric residue and bloody stool, severe eosinophilia and pneumatosis intestinalis in abdominal X-ray that treated as necrotizing enterolitis and fully recovered without the management of allergic enterocolitis.
Conclusions: severe eosinophilia may be encountered during the episodes of NEC and it may propose the diagnosis of allergic enterocolitis but further studies is needed to clarify this association.
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