TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F313 LP - F313 DO - 10.1136/fetalneonatal-2012-302755 VL - 97 IS - 5 AU - Martin Ward Platt Y1 - 2012/09/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/97/5/F313.abstract N2 - Among the tiniest and most fragile babies, necrotising enterocolitis is still one of the major causes of death and disability; while for attending clinicians, it is a deeply frustrating disease both to prevent and treat. The aspect that has had less attention is the potential for long term consequences, so the paper by Pike et al is a welcome addition to our knowledge. The problem with separating out the extent to which long term outcomes are a direct result of NEC itself, or a result only of the conditions that gave rise to NEC, has been addressed as well as it can be; and the results are a mixture of the reassuring (little effect on behaviour or educational problems) and the important (later gastrointestinal problems). See page F318 After a quarter century of the close study of significantly pre-term babies, there has been more interest … ER -