esophageal atresia

The optimal treatment in cases of long gap esophageal atresia remains controversial.

A variety of treatments for tracheomalacia associated with esophageal atresia are available.

In many types of esophageal atresia, a feeding tube will not pass through the esophagus.

Provides information and support for families of children with esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula.

Esophageal atresia and the subsequent inability to swallow typically cause polyhydramnios in utero.

During his last eight years in active practice, Koop never lost a full-term baby upon whom he had operated to correct esophageal atresia.

TEF and esophageal atresia are life-threatening problems requiring immediate medical attention and treatment.

Babies with TEF or esophageal atresia are unable to feed properly.

Esophagectomy is also occasionally performed for benign disease such as esophageal atresia in children, achalasia, or caustic injury.

Esophageal atresia - affects the alimentary tract causing the esophagus to end before connecting normally to the stomach.

Congenital esophageal atresia (EA) represents a failure of the esophagus to develop as a continuous passage.

"Tracheoesophageal Fistula And Esophageal Atresia Repair" 16 May 2007.

Esophageal atresia (or Oesophageal atresia) is a congenital medical condition (birth defect) which affects the alimentary tract.

TEF repair; Esophageal atresia repair Surgery is done while the child is under general anesthesia (unconscious and pain-free).

Narrowing of repaired organs Collapsed lung (pneumothorax) Hypothermia Tracheoesophageal fistula and esophageal atresia can usually be corrected surgically.

On antenatal USG, the finding of an absent or small stomach in the setting of polyhydramnios used to be considered suspicious of esophageal atresia.

This surgery is used to repair two congenital defects of the airway and the digestive tract: tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) and esophageal atresia.

In April 1982, a child born in Bloomington, Indiana, was diagnosed with Down syndrome as well as esophageal atresia with tracheoesophageal fistula.

Esophageal atresia is a condition in which the patient is born with an abnormality in the part of the digestive tube that runs from below the tongue to the stomach (esophagus).

The G-tube can be useful where there is difficulty with swallowing because of neurologic or anatomic disorders (stroke, esophageal atresia, tracheoesophageal fistula), and to avoid the risk of aspiration pneumonia.

Esophageal atresia with tracheo-esophageal fistula (TE fistula) is seen in about 70 percent of patients with VACTERL association, although it can frequently occur as an isolated defect.

The primary case was a 1982 incident involving "Baby Doe", a Bloomington, Indiana baby with Down syndrome whose parents declined surgery to fix esophageal atresia with tracheoesophageal fistula, leading to the baby's death.

The upper neck pouch sign is another sign that helps in the antenatal diagnosis of esophageal atresia and it may be detected soon after birth as the affected infant will be unable to swallow its own saliva.

Six days later, after court involvement and parental discussion involving disagreement among physicians about whether or not to treat the baby or let him die, the baby died, having been denied surgical treatment to correct his esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula.