Spontaneous intestinal perforation in extremely low birth weight infants: association with indometacin therapy and effects on neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18–22 months corrected age

Rajan Wadhawan; William Oh; Betty R Vohr; Shampa Saha; Abhik Das; Edward F Bell; Abbott Laptook; Seetha Shankaran; Barbara J Stoll; Michele C Walsh; Rose Higgins

doi:10.1136/archdischild-2011-300659

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Spontaneous intestinal perforation in extremely low birth weight infants: association with indometacin therapy and effects on neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18–22 months corrected age

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Rajan Wadhawan Division of Neonatology, All Children's Hospital, St Petersburg, Florida, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
William Oh Department of Pediatrics, Women & Infants Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Betty R Vohr Department of Pediatrics, Women & Infants Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Shampa Saha Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Abhik Das RTI International, Rockville, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Edward F Bell Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa city, Iowa, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Abbott Laptook Department of Pediatrics, Women & Infants Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Seetha Shankaran Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State UniversityChildrens Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Barbara J Stoll Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Michele C Walsh Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Rose Higgins Eunice Kennedy Shiver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Rajan Wadhawan, Center for Neonatal Care, Florida Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL 32804; Rajan.Wadhawan.MD{at}flhosp.org

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Wadhawan R, Oh W, Vohr BR, et al

Spontaneous intestinal perforation in extremely low birth weight infants: association with indometacin therapy and effects on neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18–22 months corrected age

Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2013;98:F127-F132.

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Received July 15, 2011
Accepted March 19, 2012
First published June 9, 2012.

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March 22, 2016

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