Open AccessThe role of absolute monocyte counts in predicting severity of necrotizing enterocolitis
Author(s) -
Suneetha Desiraju,
Julian Bensadoun,
David A. Bateman,
Sudha Kashyap
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of perinatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1476-5543
pISSN - 0743-8346
DOI - 10.1038/s41372-020-0596-2
Subject(s) - medicine , necrotizing enterocolitis , gastroenterology , stage (stratigraphy) , enterocolitis , severity of illness , paleontology , biology
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is an inflammatory bowel disease of preterm infants marked by an absolute monocyte count (AMC) drop in peripheral blood. Our objective was to determine whether the degree of AMC drop at illness onset correlates with eventual severity of disease.