Wolf L, Gfroerer S, Fiegel H, Rolle U. Complications of newborn enterostomies. World J Clin Cases 2018; 6(16): 1101-1110 [PMID: 30613668 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v6.i16.1101]
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Udo Rolle, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Full Professor, Surgeon, Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, Frankfurt 60590, Germany. udo.rolle@kgu.de
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Surgery
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Retrospective Study
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World J Clin Cases. Dec 26, 2018; 6(16): 1101-1110 Published online Dec 26, 2018. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v6.i16.1101
Complications of newborn enterostomies
Lea Wolf, Stefan Gfroerer, Henning Fiegel, Udo Rolle
Lea Wolf, Stefan Gfroerer, Henning Fiegel, Udo Rolle, Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt 60590, Germany
Author contributions: All authors reviewed the manuscript and completed final approval; Wolf L acquired and analyzed the data, wrote the manuscript draft; Gfroerer S, Fiegel H and Rolle U contributed to study conception and design and made critical revision on the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Frankfurt (310/17).
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to participate in the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author to: Udo Rolle, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Full Professor, Surgeon, Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, Frankfurt 60590, Germany. udo.rolle@kgu.de
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Received: September 24, 2018 Peer-review started: September 24, 2018 First decision: November 1, 2018 Revised: November 12, 2018 Accepted: November 14, 2018 Article in press: November 15, 2018 Published online: December 26, 2018 Processing time: 92 Days and 10.5 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: Infants with intestinal disorders often require surgical treatment consisting of enterostomy creation. However, enterostomy formation as well as its reversal frequently seems to lead to complications. The aim of this study was to assess the frequency, severity and impact of enterostomy complications in infants. In our study population, 80.3% of the infants presented with at least one complication following enterostomy formation, and 26.0% presented with complications after enterostomy closure. In the majority of patients, there was no requirement for surgical intervention regarding those complications. Infants suffering from necrotizing enterocolitis have a higher risk for developing enterostomy complications than neonates suffering from other intestinal disorders.
