Open AccessMale Sex Predisposes the Newborn Surgical Patient to Parenteral Nutrition–Associated Cholestasis and to Sepsis
Author(s) -
Marcel J. I. J. Albers,
Dana-Anne H de Gast-Bakker,
Nicolette A. M. van Dam,
Gerard C. Madern,
Dick Tibboel
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
archives of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3644
pISSN - 0004-0010
DOI - 10.1001/archsurg.137.7.789
Subject(s) - medicine , sepsis , cholestasis , incidence (geometry) , odds ratio , gestational age , parenteral nutrition , neonatal cholestasis , surgery , gastroenterology , pediatrics , pregnancy , biliary atresia , liver transplantation , transplantation , physics , biology , optics , genetics
Sepsis is an epiphenomenon of parenteral nutrition-associated cholestasis (PNAC) and not a causative factor, and the incidence of sepsis is not affected by the presence or absence of PNAC.