Guidelines of the Italian Society of Videosurgery (SIVI) in Infancy for the minimally invasive treatment of Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis in neonates and infants [PDF]
La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica, 2020 The most appropriate treatment for the infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis (HPS) is still debated. The non-surgical conservative treatment with oral or intravenous administration of atropine does not enjoy a widespread appreciation for several ...
Salvatore Fabio Chiarenza +16 more
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Diseases, 2023 Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is a common cause of vomiting in the first few weeks of life, but in rare cases, it may occur in older subjects with a major risk of delayed diagnosis and complications. We describe the case of a 12-year-and-8-month-old girl
Simona Gatti +5 more
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Congenital Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis in a Preterm Dizygotic Female Twin Infant: Case Report
Children, 2022 Infants with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis are usually diagnosed at about 3 to 8 weeks of age. The clinical onset of symptoms in preterm babies is observed normally at a later age than in term or post-term newborns. This report describes a rare case of a
Besiana P. Beqo +2 more
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Vacterl association with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2018 The acronym VACTERL is actually a combination of associated anomalies. We found a case of VACTERL association with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. A six-weeks-old male infant was referred to us with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
Davoud Badebarin +2 more
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Recurrent Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis in the Emergency Department: A Case Report
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2022 Introduction: Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) is a common cause of infant vomiting. Emergency department (ED) diagnosis is usually made by pyloric ultrasound and treated by pyloromyotomy.
Adeola A. Kosoko, Diego Craik Tobar
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The incidence of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis nearly halved from 2005 to 2017 : analysis of German administrative data [PDF]
Pediatric surgery international (Print), 2021 Purpose Some paediatric surgical diseases showed a declining incidence in recent years, among which hypertrophic pyloric stenosis has been particularly striking shortly in the years after the millennium.
Muensterer, Oliver J. +1 more
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Children, 2021 Background: The standard of treatment for infants with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is still pyloromyotomy. Recently, in most of the pediatric surgery centers laparoscopic pyloromyotomy has become popular.
Zenon Pogorelić +3 more
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Case report: Late-onset hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in a 3-year-old boy: It is never too late
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis (HPS) represents a relatively rare occurrence beyond infancy. Here, we present the case of a barely 3-year-old boy diagnosed with late-onset HPS and successfully treated with extra-mucosal pyloromyotomy.
Onofrio Iacoviello +8 more
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Post-natal erythromycin exposure and risk of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Pediatric surgery international (Print), 2016 PURPOSE: Macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin, in particular, have been linked to the development of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS). Our aim was to conduct a systematic review of the evidence of whether post-natal erythromycin exposure is ...
L. Murchison, P. De Coppi, S. Eaton
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Successful Treatment of Neonatal Pylorospasm with Intravenous Atropine [PDF]
Neonatal Medicine, 2019 Pylorospasm is a cause of delayed gastric emptying in young infants. As in patients with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, most pylorospasm patients present with projectile vomiting.
Hyeong Jung Kim +8 more
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