Risk Factors of Early Mortality and Morbidity in Esophageal Atresia with Distal Tracheoesophageal Fistula: A Population-Based Cohort Study.

Objective: To identify the risk factors for early mortality and morbidity in a population with distal esophageal atresia (EA)-tracheoesophageal fistula.

Study Design: Cohort study from a national register. Main outcomes and measures included early mortality, hospital length of stay (LoS), need for nutritional support at 1 year of age as a proxy measure of morbidity, and complications during the first year of life.

Conservative management of blunt pancreatic trauma in children: a single center experience.

Introduction: Blunt trauma of the pancreas represents a significant part of abdomen trauma in children with an incidence estimated at around 10%. If the conservative management is widely accepted concerning the stages I and II, it remains controversial concerning stages III and IV. The aim of our study was to perform a descriptive analysis of the nonoperative management, with a focus on the occurrence of pseudocysts.

[Is there an outcome difference between posterior urethral valves diagnosed prenatally and postnatally at the time of antenatal screening?].

Purpose: Posterior urethral valves (PUV) diagnosed during childhood have classically been associated with a better outcome than antenatally diagnosed PUV. The aim of our study was to compare long-term outcome of these two patients' groups.

Material And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of boys with PUV managed between 1990 and 2010.