Post-discharge follow-up of congenital duodenal obstruction patients: a systematic review.

Purpose: Long-term follow-up of congenital duodenal obstruction patients often falls on care providers with little experience of this condition. We performed a systematic review of the long-term outcomes of duodenal obstruction and provide a summary of sequelae care providers should anticipate.

Methods: In 2022, after registering with PROSPERA, Medline (Ovid), EMBASE, PSYCHINFO, CNAHL and SCOPUS databases were searched using the title keyword 'intestinal atresia'.

Educational and mental health outcomes in school-aged children with anorectal malformations: A case-control cohort study.

Purpose: Outcome studies for patients with anorectal malformation (ARM) have focused on fecal incontinence and quality of life, but a comparison of educational outcomes between ARM cases and controls has not been reported. The purpose of this study was to assess real-world educational outcomes, neurodevelopmental disorders and mental health disorders in ARM patients and compare to an age-matched control group.

Methods: We performed a retrospective case-control study of children diagnosed with ARM from 1991 to 2017.

The effect of tracheal occlusion in congenital diaphragmatic hernia in the nitrofen rat lung explant model.

Purpose: Here, we establish a tracheal occlusion (TO) model with rat lung explants in nitrofen-induced pulmonary hypoplasia in the congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH).

Methods: We extracted lungs from rats on an embryonic day 18. We mimicked TO in the lung explants by tying the trachea.

Musculoskeletal deformities in children with congenital thoracic malformations: a population-based cohort study.

Purpose: It is unclear if musculoskeletal deformities observed in patients with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), congenital lung lesion (CLL) and esophageal atresia/tracheoesophageal fistula (EA/TEF) are associated with the anomaly or are a result of the surgery required to treat the anomaly. This study compared the prevalence of musculoskeletal deformities for: (1) children with congenital thoracic anomalies to controls; (2) CLL to EA/TEF both repaired via thoracotomy; and (3) CLL and EA/TEF to CDH repaired via laparotomy.

Methods: We performed a retrospective study of children with CLL, CDH or EA/TEF between 1990 and 2016.

Congenital lung malformation patients experience respiratory infections after resection: A population-based cohort study.

Purpose: The benefit of elective resection of congenital lung malformations continues to be debated. Proponents of resection endorse a decreased risk of respiratory complications as one indication for surgery. Our study aimed to compare the prevalence of respiratory infections in cases, before and after resection of congenital lung malformations, to controls without a history of congenital lung malformation.