Necrotizing enterocolitis after open heart surgery employing hypothermia and cardiopulmonary bypass. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Three patients, 1-11 months of age, who underwent open heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass and profound hypothermia, developed necrotizing enterocolitis postoperatively leading to death. Pneumatosis intestinalis and portal vein gas were demonstrated radiographically. Necrotizing enterocolitis has not been previously reported as a complication of cardiopulmonary bypass and profound hypothermia.

publication date

  • November 1, 1976

Research

keywords

  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures
  • Cardiopulmonary Bypass
  • Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous
  • Extracorporeal Circulation
  • Hypothermia, Induced
  • Necrosis

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0017057206

PubMed ID

  • 973661

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 127

issue

  • 5