A Modern Cohort of Duodenal Obstruction Patients: Predictors of Delayed Transition to Full Enteral Nutrition
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(a) Kaplan-Meier curves illustrating the progression to 100% enteral nutrition (100% EN) in patients without congenital heart disease (CHD). The importance of low gestational age (GA) is that if a patient was GA > 35 weeks () then the median time to progression was 10 days (IQR: 8–12 days). However, if the GA ≤ 35 weeks () then the median time to progression was 16 days (IQR: 11–20 days) (, log-rank test = 9.12). (b) Kaplan-Meier curves illustrating the progression to 100% enteral nutrition (EN) in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) and illustrates the synergistic effect of CHD on prematurity. For those patients with GA > 35 weeks () and CHD, the median time to progression was 11 days (IQR: 8–14 days). For those patients with GA ≤ 35 weeks () and CHD, their median time to progression was 23 days (IQR: 15–30 days) (, log-rank test = 16.21). Both prematurity and the presence of CHD translated into a much longer delay in progression to 100% EN.
