More than a gut feeling: predicting surgical necrotising enterocolitis

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Jörn-Hendrik Weitkamp. Gut. 2014 Aug.

. 2014 Aug;63(8):1205-6.

doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2013-305928. Epub 2013 Sep 24.

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Keywords: Clinical Decision Making; Gut Immunology; Necrotizing Enterocolitis; Neonatal Gut; Paediatric Surgery.

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A novel urine peptide biomarker-based algorithm for the prognosis of necrotising enterocolitis in human infants.
Sylvester KG, Ling XB, Liu GY, Kastenberg ZJ, Ji J, Hu Z, Peng S, Lau K, Abdullah F, Brandt ML, Ehrenkranz RA, Harris MC, Lee TC, Simpson J, Bowers C, Moss RL. Sylvester KG, et al. Gut. 2014 Aug;63(8):1284-92. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2013-305130. Epub 2013 Sep 18. Gut. 2014. PMID: 24048736 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

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