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Necrotizing Bowel Disease with Candida Peritonitis Following Severe Neonatal Hypothermia
Author(s) -
KAPLAN M.,
EIDELMAN A. I.,
DOLLBERG L.,
ABUDALU K.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1990.tb11574.x
Subject(s) - medicine , peritonitis , candida albicans , perforation , gastrointestinal tract , bowel perforation , hypothermia , meconium peritonitis , gastroenterology , surgery , complication , microbiology and biotechnology , pregnancy , fetus , materials science , metallurgy , punching , biology , genetics , meconium
. Peritonitis due to Candida albicans is rare in the newborn infant. Three low birth‐weight, extremely ill premature infants who were severely hypothermic at the time of admission developed perforation of the gastrointestinal tract. C. albicans was cultured from the peritoneal fluid in each case. In view of the rareness of C. albicans peritonitis in newborns, this cluster of infants suggests a relationship between severe neonatal hypothermia, and bowel perforation with peritonitis due to this fungus.