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Anemia, red blood cell transfusions, and necrotizing enterocolitis.


ABSTRACT: In the past 15 years, multiple clinical studies have identified a temporal association between red blood cell (RBC) transfusions and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). With some variability, most of these studies indicate that up to one-third of all cases of NEC involving very low-birth weight infants may occur within 24-48h after receiving a RBC transfusion. There is also evidence that the risk of such transfusion-associated NEC may be higher in infants transfused with the greatest severity of anemia. In this article, we summarize the clinical evidence pertaining to these issues; specifically, the contribution of RBC transfusions, and the contribution of severity of underlying anemia, to the pathogenesis of a type of NEC potentially termed, "transfusion/anemia-associated NEC."

SUBMITTER: Maheshwari A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5776697 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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