Digestive System Diseases: News and Research on Meconium Ileus

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Research identifies risks and outcomes for preterm infants with rare bowel obstruction

A UCLA Health research team has helped define and characterize a rare bowel obstruction that affects premature infants, known as meconium-related obstruction of prematurity (MROP). Distinct from Hirschsprung disease and meconium ...

Sep 15, 2025

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How a cystic fibrosis drug given prenatally changed the lives of one family

When a prenatal ultrasound in October of 2021 showed Michaela and Jacob Zalinski that the baby they were expecting was developing the same cystic fibrosis complication as her two brothers had, they were devastated.

Jul 6, 2023

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