Little attention has been given in the past to the incidence and clinical features of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in premature infants. We have observed three cases of this disease in very premature infants within a period of 18 months in one of the premature nurseries in the Simpson Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh. These cases are of special interest because continuous clinical records from bi...

Pyloric muscle dimensions were measured in 1400 consecutive newborn infants. Nine of these subsequently developed pyloric stenosis. Their pyloric measurements at birth were all within the normal range. Congenital preformed muscular hypertrophy does not appear to be present in babies who later develop pyloric stenosis.

In order to investigate the possible contribution of maternal emotional stress to the aetiology of infantile pyloric stenosis, 100 mothers of affected infants, 100 "normal" controls who had not sought medical advice at any time concerning feeding problems, and 50 mothers of children with spina bifida were interviewed. All completed the Life Events Inventory, which gives a quantitative measureme...

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 Point of View The Cause of Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis: one man’s journey. Ian M. Rogers FRCS, FRCP, PGCME (Dundee), Visiting Professor of Surgery, AIMST University Faculty of Medicine, 08100 Bedong, Kedah, Malaysia. E-mail: irogers2000 at hotmail dot com Submitted Dec 20, 2011; accepted Jan ...

Wallgren (1941), in Gothenburg, found that pyloric stenosis occurred in four out of every 1,000 infants born alive, but in this country Davison (1946) in Newcastle found the incidence to be 28 per 1,000 live births, and Lawson (1951) in Dundee found it to be as low as 1per 1,000 live births. Wallgren, Davison and Lawson all claim that their area was particularly suitable for the calculation of ...