John Kelleher1, Ariel A Salas1, Ramachandra Bhat1, Namasivayam Ambalavanan1, Shampa Saha2, Barbara J Stoll3, Edward F Bell4, Michele C Walsh5, Abbot R Laptook6, Pablo J Sánchez7, Seetha Shankaran8, Krisa P VanMeurs9, Ellen C Hale1, Nancy S Newman5, M Bethany Ball9, Abhik Das10, Rosemary D Higgins11, Myriam Peralta-Carcelen1, Waldemar A Carlo12. 1. Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; 2. Social, Statistical and Environmental Sciences Unit, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; 3. Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia; 4. Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; 5. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; 6. Department of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; 7. Department of Pediatrics, Women & Infants' Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; 8. Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. 9. Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; 10. Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California; and. 11. Social, Statistical and Environmental Sciences Unit, RTI International, Rockville, Maryland. 12. Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; wcarlo@peds.uab.edu.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Prophylactic indomethacin reduces severe intraventricular hemorrhage but may increase spontaneous intestinal perforation (SIP) in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants. Early feedings improve nutritional outcomes but may increase the risk of SIP. Despite their benefits, use of these therapies varies largely by physician preferences in part because of the concern for SIP. METHODS: This was a cohort study of 15,751 ELBW infants in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network from 1999 to 2010 who survived beyond 12 hours after birth. The risk of SIP was compared between groups of infants with and without exposure to prophylactic indomethacin and early feeding in unadjusted analyses and in analyses adjusted for center and for risks of SIP. RESULTS: Among infants exposed to prophylactic indomethacin, the risk of SIP did not differ between the indomethacin/early-feeding group compared with the indomethacin/no-early-feeding group (adjusted relative risk [RR] 0.74, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.49-1.11). The risk of SIP was lower in the indomethacin/early-feeding group compared with the no indomethacin/no-early-feeding group (adjusted RR 0.58, 95% CI 0.37-0.90, P = .0159). Among infants not exposed to indomethacin, early feeding was associated with a lower risk of SIP compared with the no early feeding group (adjusted RR 0.53, 95% CI 0.36-0.777, P = .0011). CONCLUSIONS: The combined or individual use of prophylactic indomethacin and early feeding was not associated with an increased risk of SIP in ELBW infants.
OBJECTIVE: Prophylactic indomethacin reduces severe intraventricular hemorrhage but may increase spontaneous intestinal perforation (SIP) in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants. Early feedings improve nutritional outcomes but may increase the risk of SIP. Despite their benefits, use of these therapies varies largely by physician preferences in part because of the concern for SIP. METHODS: This was a cohort study of 15,751 ELBW infants in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network from 1999 to 2010 who survived beyond 12 hours after birth. The risk of SIP was compared between groups of infants with and without exposure to prophylactic indomethacin and early feeding in unadjusted analyses and in analyses adjusted for center and for risks of SIP. RESULTS: Among infants exposed to prophylactic indomethacin, the risk of SIP did not differ between the indomethacin/early-feeding group compared with the indomethacin/no-early-feeding group (adjusted relative risk [RR] 0.74, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.49-1.11). The risk of SIP was lower in the indomethacin/early-feeding group compared with the no indomethacin/no-early-feeding group (adjusted RR 0.58, 95% CI 0.37-0.90, P = .0159). Among infants not exposed to indomethacin, early feeding was associated with a lower risk of SIP compared with the no early feeding group (adjusted RR 0.53, 95% CI 0.36-0.777, P = .0011). CONCLUSIONS: The combined or individual use of prophylactic indomethacin and early feeding was not associated with an increased risk of SIP in ELBW infants.
Authors: A R Stark; W A Carlo; J E Tyson; L A Papile; L L Wright; S Shankaran; E F Donovan; W Oh; C R Bauer; S Saha; W K Poole; B J Stoll Journal: N Engl J Med Date: 2001-01-11 Impact factor: 91.245
Authors: Ronald Clyman; Andrea Wickremasinghe; Nami Jhaveri; Denise C Hassinger; Joshua T Attridge; Ulana Sanocka; Richard Polin; Maria Gillam-Krakauer; Jeff Reese; Mark Mammel; Robert Couser; Neil Mulrooney; Toby D Yanowitz; Matthew Derrick; Priya Jegatheesan; Michele Walsh; Alan Fujii; Nicolas Porta; William A Carey; Jonathan R Swanson Journal: J Pediatr Date: 2013-03-06 Impact factor: 4.406