Digestive System Neonatal Diseases Newborns with feeding intolerance and necrotizing enterocolitis
Conditions
Interventions
Enteral rh EPO
Distilled water
Sponsors
Pediatric departement faculyty of medicine, Alexandria University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: preterm infants born ¿ 32 weeks gestation in a cardiovascular stable condition
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: infants who received chest compression or any medication given to the infant during resuscitation or any event suggesting exposure to hypoxia, infants with genetic syndromes, trisomies (13, 18...), inborn errors of metabolism (persistent metabolic acidosis, with history of multiple early sibling deaths or still births), infants with major congenital or acquired gastrointestinal tract malformation, infants with previous use of parenteral growth factors as: recombinant human erythropoietin & Granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming unit ( GM-CSF) and infants with previous use of intravenous immunoglobulin
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Feeding intolerance in the form of abdominal distension ¿ 2 cm post feeding , vomiting (greater than three times in a 24-hour period) , coffee ground or bile stained vomiting;Nnecrotizing enterocolitis | — |
Countries
Egypt
Contacts
Public ContactElsayedamr Basma
Patient Information Manager
Outcome results
None listed