Urinary Intestinal Fatty Acid-Binding Protein Can Distinguish Necrotizing Enterocolitis from Sepsis in Early Stage of the Disease

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The urinary I-FABP in patients that developed NEC or sepsis after surgery for congenital intestinal malformation. (a) The dynamics of urinary I-FABP. Change in urinary I-FABP between time 12 h after surgery and time of suspected NEC (, Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test) in (b) NEC and (c) sepsis patients.

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