Are there beneficial effects of rapid introduction of enteral feeding in very low birth-weight infants, even in those with severe intra-uterine growth retardation (IUGR)?

J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2002 Aug;35(2):137-8. doi: 10.1097/00005176-200208000-00006.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Enteral Nutrition* / adverse effects
  • Enterocolitis, Necrotizing / etiology
  • Female
  • Fetal Growth Retardation* / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Infant Food* / adverse effects
  • Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infant, Very Low Birth Weight / physiology*
  • Milk, Human / physiology
  • Pregnancy