Lewis Spitz

..The incidence and treatment of early and late complications is discussed...

..Infants weighing over 1500 g and having no major cardiac problem should have a near 100% survival, while the presence of one of the risk factors reduces survival to 80% and further to 30-50% in the presence of both risk factors...

..Redo Nissen fundoplication has a high failure rate. Risk factors are open fundoplication at first operation and neurological impairment. Redo fundoplication after primary laparoscopic Nissen has a lower risk of failure...

..The aim of the study was to evaluate the surgical outcome of esophageal atresia (EA) without fistula for 24 years at a single tertiary center for pediatric surgery...

..Various pull-through techniques, both open and laparoscopic, have been performed for Hirschsprung disease. Our study compares open and laparoscopic Duhamel pull-through...

..This decrease in ATP generation may be a factor in the dysfunction of these organs during sepsis...

..5 M dithionite, during immunoprecipitation, greatly decreased immunopositivity for M- and L-CPTI on WB. M-CPTI appears to be a novel target for peroxynitrite during endotoxaemia, which would alter myocardial substrate selection...

..An enormous amount of information about pediatric surgical conditions is available on the World Wide Web (www). Our aim was to ascertain how many parents accessed the www and how useful they found the exercise...

..Planning of postnatal surgical separation is aided by accurate preoperative imaging which, depending on the conjoined area, will encompass many imaging modalities, but often relies heavily on CT scanning...

..Among this collection is a fetus demonstrating a gastroschisis anomaly that had gone unrecognized for almost 200 years...

..Di-HI is only managed by surgery if combination drug therapies are unable to prevent hypoglycaemia. Pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction persists following subtotal pancreatectomy of di-HI...

..However, whether these effects persist after rewarming is unknown...

..To analyze the outcome in 192 children (116 males, 76 females) undergoing transposition since 1981...

..This article gives an overview of the role of prenatal ultrasound in assessing the prognosis and discusses the post-natal surgical management and outcome...

..Alimemazine (trimeprazine, Vallergan; Castlemead, Herts, UK) is a phenothiazine derivative histamine(1) antagonist, which anecdotally relieves the retching symptoms...

..Advances in neonatal care have led us to question if these outcome figures are still valid. We tested the hypothesis that the outcome of neonates with OA has improved during the last decade...

..The biomedical emphasis on health and weight-gains may fail to reflect parental concerns about tube and oral feeding. There is a need for greater practical and emotional support for families feeding children with severe disabilities...

..Counts were higher (P = .002) from ties that were rarely, if ever, cleaned than from shirts that were washed every 2 days or more frequently. The results support the need for further research on unwashable clothing of hospital staff...

..Nutritional supplementation is more frequently required in patients with an ileostomy. Stoma complications were higher in those with a colostomy. Morbidity is high in patients with spinal dysraphism...

..The remarkable degree of phenotypic variation demonstrated remains unexplained without functional studies; this variability highlights the challenge of treating this rare condition...

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..CONCLUSIONS: The respiratory chain is affected late in endotoxemia. Neither early nor late endotoxemia affects oxidative function of kidney mitochondria...

..The aim of this study was to review our experience with OK-432 injection of lymphangioma and to identify factors associated with successful outcome...

..CONCLUSIONS: Patients with gastroenteric fistula as a complication of PEG insertion can remain asymptomatic for prolonged periods. It often is difficult to make the diagnosis. A plain abdominal x-ray is a useful diagnostic modality...

..CONCLUSIONS: Giant omphalocele can be safely repaired in the neonatal period without opening the amniotic sac. Intestinal malrotation should be excluded and Ladd's procedure can be performed laparoscopically at a later stage...

..As the joined structures are not life-threatening, there is generally a good prognosis, with time for investigation and planning of operative separation...

..A total of 19.6% of the patients needed anastomotic dilatation for stricture. In the long term, good function has been maintained. Gastric transposition compares favorably with alternative methods of esophageal replacement...

..We recommend placement of a PEG or OG if an anti-reflux procedure is necessary prior to starting PD. Placement of a PEG while on PD is contraindicated, but an OG is a safe alternative procedure...

..1 (Ttf 1), lead to OA/TOF. The authors aimed to integrate the 2 systems by adapting the Adriamycin model to the mouse to study molecular aspects of tracheo-oesophageal development...