David Hackam's laboratory focuses
on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a devastating disease of premature infants and the leading cause of death and disability from gastrointestinal disease in newborns.
A leading authority
on necrotizing enterocolitis and other inflammatory bowel diseases in newborns, Dr. Hackam has advanced our understanding of how these severe and sometimes fatal disorders work.
Not exact matches
The only concerning research I found
on xanthan gum relates to the development of
necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in infants.
Baby Phil held
on for seven weeks until he died of
necrotizing enterocolitis, an inflammation of the intestines that mostly afflicts preterm babies.
Specific treatment for
necrotizing enterocolitis will be determined by your baby's doctor based
on the following:
The health risks associated with formula feeding for premature infants include increased incidence of
necrotizing enterocolitis, 5 delayed brainstem maturation, 6 decreased scoring
on cognitive and developmental tests,7 - 10 and decreased visual development.11, 12 Thus, human - milk feeding of premature infants is desirable, and effective strategies to increase breastfeeding rates in this population are needed.
Michael Cotten, another neonatologist
on the Duke project, analyzed the duration of antibiotic therapy given to 4,039 premature babies at 19 treatment centers across the country and found that prolonged use of the drugs is associated with increased risk of
necrotizing enterocolitis and death.
His laboratory is focused
on unraveling the molecular mechanisms that underlie several important surgical diseases, including
necrotizing enterocolitis and inflammatory bowel disease, and seeks to develop novel therapeutic strategies to prevent or reverse these disease processes.
Biopsy results from the affected puppy were sent to the University of California, San Diego - Comparative Neuromuscular Laboratory where an inflammatory and
necrotizing myopathy of undetermined origin was concluded and a GWAS study (genome - wide association study) was recommended
on their report of March 7, 2016.
The following synopsis was presented to Dr. Karen Wroblewski
on March 24, 2017 from the University of Minnesota Canine Genetics Laboratory: POLYMYOSITIS A previously unknown inflammatory and
necrotizing myopathy was characterized in five related Dutch Shepherd dogs.