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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 Dec;33(12):e140–e145. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000812

Table 1. Underlying Etiology of Intestinal Failure by Patient and Febrile ED Episode.

Intestinal Failure Etiology Patients (N = 72) Febrile ED Episodes (N = 519)
 Necrotizing enterocolitis 17 (23.6%) 135 (26%)
 Gastroschisis 20 (27.8%) 122 (23.5%)
 Volvulus 11 (15.3%) 67 (12.9%)
 Intestinal atresia 7 (9.7%) 57 (11%)
 Tufting enteropathy 3 (4.2%) 25 (4.8%)
 Hirschsprung's Disease 2 (2.8%) 18 (3.5%)
 Mitochondrial disorder 1 (1.4%) 18 (3.5%)
 Familial Adenomatous Polyposis 2 (2.8%) 16 (3.1%)
 Microvillus inclusion disease 1 (1.4%) 16 (3.1%)
 Abdominal compartment syndrome 1 (1.4%) 14 (2.7%)
 Cystic lymphangioma 1 (1.4%) 9 (1.7%)
 Autoimmune enteropathy 1 (1.4%) 8 (1.5%)
 Intestinal pseudo-obstruction 1 (1.4%) 6 (1.2%)
 Evisceration 1 (1.4%) 4 (0.8%)
 Gardner Syndrome 1 (1.4%) 2 (0.4%)
 Bladder extrophy and cloaca 1 (1.4%) 1 (0.2%)
 Megacystic microcolon intestinal 1 (1.4%) 1 (0.2%)
 hypoperistalsis syndrome