ReviewFrontiers in pediatrics2023
Neonatologist-performed point-of-care abdominal ultrasound: What have we learned so far?
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Imaging and Non-Imaging Approaches for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Necrotizing Enterocolitis-What Lies Ahead?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- An Australasian Survey of Neonatal Clinicians on Clinical Utility of Point-of-Care Bowel Ultrasound in Diagnosis of Necrotising Enterocolitis.Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine · 2025Article
- Pediatric Abdominal Ultrasound Training Program: Standard Views.Pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology & nutrition · 2025Article
- Case-control study of milk curd obstruction in newborn infants in a tertiary surgical neonatal intensive care unit.Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition · 2024Article
- Is a Training Program in Pediatric Abdominal Ultrasonography Necessary for Pediatricians?Pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology & nutrition · 2024Article
- Pediatric abdominal ultrasound training program for pediatricians.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
This review describes the sonographic appearances of the neonatal bowel in Necrotising enterocolitis. It compares these findings to those seen in midgut-Volvulus, obstructive intestinal conditions such as milk-curd obstruction, and slow gut motility in preterm infants on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)-CPAP belly syndrome. Point-of-care bowel ultrasound is also helpful in ruling out severe and active intestinal conditions, reassuring clinicians when the diagnosis is unclear in a non-specific clinical presentation where NEC cannot be excluded. As NEC is a severe disease, it is often over-diagnosed, mainly due to a lack of reliable biomarkers and clinical presentation similar to sepsis in neonates. Thus, the assessment of the bowel in real-time would allow clinicians to determine the timing of re-initiation of feeds and would also be reassuring based on specific typical bowel characteristics visualised on the ultrasound.
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