Radiographic Predictors of Disease Severity in Neonates and Infants With Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Abstract

The DAAS provides a standardized 10-point radiographic scale that increases with disease severity when using need for surgical intervention as a surrogate for severe NEC. For every 1-point increase in the DAAS score, patients were statistically significantly more likely to have severe disease as measured by need for surgical intervention.