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Factors correlating with a successful outcome following extensive intestinal resection in newborn infants

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Survival following small bowell resection in 50 infants was related to the length of the remaining bowel, presence of the ileocecal valve, normal birth weight, successful operative therapy, and lack of associated anomalies. All but one infant survival resection which left 38 to 75 cm., 7 of 14 lived with 15 to 38 cm. of small bowel and an intact ileocecal valve, and none survived with less than 15 cm. of jejunum or ileum. Death occurred in all infants with ileocecal resection and remaining small intestinal segments measuring less than 40 cm. Body weights were within the normal range after the first year of life in most survivors.

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    Present address: U. S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Forst Sam Houston, Texas 78234.

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