Pediatr Radiol (2007) 37:1310 DOI 10.1007/s00247-007-0658-z Necrotizing enterocolitis in term neonates: data from a multi- Pulmonary dysfunction in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell hospital health-care system transplant patients: overview, diagnostic considerations, and infec- tious complications J Perinatol (2007) 27:437–443 Pediatr Blood Cancer (2007) 49:117–126 This article and the accompanying editorial (pp 397–398) address Pulmonary dysfunction in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell something we occasionally encounter and puzzle over, i.e. NEC in transplant patients: non-infectious and long-term complications term neonates. The authors reference over 150 cases reported in the literature since 1973. Using their organized analysis of Pediatr Blood Cancer (2007) 49:225–233 experience across a large multihospital health-care system they identify 30 term or near term (>36 weeks) neonates in a recent These two extensively referenced reviews address pulmonary (January 2001 to June 2006) 5 -year period. They examined a complications from the increasingly used technique of hemato- broad set of risk factors by comparing these neonates with 5,847 poietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). The authors review radiolog- same-age neonates from the same hospital system who did not ical imaging, bronchoalveolar lavage, transbronchial biopsy and develop NEC. The authors then separately examined feeding open lung biopsy as methods to ascertain the etiologies of practices of 400 matched infants with the same risk factors that did infectious and non-infectious complications. not acquire NEC. Those who developed NEC were more likely to Bacterial, fungal and viral complications of HSCT are presented have congenital heart disease, polycythemia, early-onset bacterial according to time of onset; neutropenic phase...