(This section is meant for residents to check their understanding regarding a particular topic) QUESTIONS 1. Briefly describe embryogenesis of duo-denal atresia 2. How duodenal atresia is classified? 3. What anomalies are associated with du-odenal atresia? 4. Discuss the role of antenatal ultrasound in babies with duodenal atresia 5. What are the important clinical features of duodenal atresia?...

BACKGROUND Intestinal atresia is a common cause of neonatal intestinal obstruction, and management of this disease in limited setup of a developing country is very difficult. METHODS This study is a retrospective study of patients with jejunoileal atresias and their postoperative outcome in a teaching hospital in eastern Nepal over a 5-year period. RESULTS There were 28 children (19 boys an...

Intestinal atresia is a common cause of neonatal intestinal obstruction, and management of this disease in limited setup of a developing country is very difficult. This study is a retrospective study of patients with jejunoileal atresias and their postoperative outcome in a teaching hospital in eastern Nepal over a 5-year period. There were 28 children (19 boys and 9 girls). 11 children (39.28%...

With the increasing efficiency of the surgery of the newborn the accurate diagnosis of congenital anomalies of the alimentary tract has become more important. The technical aids to the diagnosis of congenital intestinal obstruction are of three types: (1) radiological examination, taking advantage of the gas in the bowel and occasionally using opaque substances; (2) the examination of vomited a...

One hundred and twenty-four infants admitted to hospitals in Norway between 1955 and 1974 during the first 3 months of life with cholestatic jaundice were studied retrospectively. Sixty-four infants had had extrahepatic atresia of the biliary tree and 60 had had intrahepatic cholestasis. This gives an incidence of about 1:9000 live births for cholestasis. In 4 of the 64 infants with extra-hepat...

The aortas in 41 specimeans of aortic atresia (ten with associated mitral atresia) were studied for the presence of coarctation of the aorta. The basic lesion, causing varying degrees of obstruction, was observed in 31 instances (75%), 24 minor, seven with major degrees of obstruction. In half, the aortic lesion lay proximal to the ductus, and in the majority of the remainder, opposite the duct...

AMA Nagi SA, Zakaria H, Elkhadry SW, Hamed W, Gaballa N, Elkholy S. APRI and FIB-4 indices as diagnostic noninvasive scores for prediction of severe fibrosis in patients with biliary atresia. Clinical Experimental Hepatology - Manuscripts Accepted. 2023. doi:10.5114/ceh.2023.130699. APA Nagi, A., Zakaria, H., Elkhadry, W., Hamed, Gaballa, N., & Elkholy, (2023). https://doi.org/10.5114/ceh.2023....

The association between epidermolysis bullosa and congenital pyloric atresia is rare, but is a known distinct clinical entity with autosomal recessive inheritance. We report on a case of a baby girl born by cesarean section at 37 weeks’ gestation to a G7 P7 mother and weighed 2.84 kg. At birth, there was denuded skin over the right leg from the knee joint up to the middle of the right foot. Abd...

INTESTINAL obstruction in the newborn infant may seem at fist consideration to represent a rather small segment of neonatal pathology. Yet it is responsible for most of the surgery in the newborn period and for the most discouraging mortality figures of any of the neonatal surgical entities within reach of therapy. The purpose of this discussion is to provide that perspective which could lead t...