What’s Next for NEC?
What’s Next for NEC? https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Spring-19-Reveal-Final-NEC_header-smaller.jpg 898 504 Abbie Miller https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/051023BT016-Abbie-Crop.jpgRed. White. Black. These are the colors of necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC. When surgeons open the distended abdomens of the tiny infants affected by NEC, they see a mottled mixture of red (inflamed), white (ischemic) and black (dead) tissue. Their first task is to assess whether or not there is enough viable tissue to save.…