A recent study by the National Institutes of Health, the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation, and the Hartwell Foundation determined that lack of exposure to amniotic fluid may be the reason preterm infants are more susceptible to the gastrointestinal inflammatory disease known as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).
Watch as senior study author, David Hackam, MD, PhD, co-director of the Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, explains his team’s findings that feeding amniotic fluid to young mice, reduced the risk of NEC. This research suggests new therapeutic avenues for warding off this often deadly condition.
What role can amniotic fluid play in reducing the risk of NEC?
