Table 2 Complications of Small for Gestational Age Neonates with Necrotizing Enterocolitis Who Progressed to Stage III or Not.

From: Correlative Factors of the Deterioration of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Small for Gestational Age Newborns

 

Stage III(n = 15)

No stage III (n = 49)

P

Congenital heart disease* (n, %)

2 (13.3)

21 (42.9)

0.04

Pathoglycemia (n, %)

2 (13.3)

3 (6.1)

0.72

Sepsis (n, %)

7 (46.7)

12 (24.5)

0.19

Coagulopathy (n, %)

5 (33.3)

22 (44.9)

0.43

Sclerema neonatorum (n, %)

3 (20.0)

7 (14.3)

0.90

Intracranial hemorrhage (n, %)

1 (6.7)

8 (16.3)

0.61

Metabolic acidosis (n, %)

2 (13.3)

4 (8.2)

0.92

Apnea (n, %)

0

1 (2.0)

1

Hemolytic disease of newborn (n, %)

1 (6.7)

9 (18.4)

0.49

Asphyxia (n, %)

0

2 (4.1)

1

Anemia (n, %)

5 (33.3)

21 (42.9)

0.51

Liver dysfunction (n, %)

0

4 (8.2)

0.57

Renal dysfunction (n, %)

2 (13.3)

6 (12.2)

1.0

  1. *Tiny-to-small PDA or patent foramen ovale were not defied as congenital heart disease.