Case of Congenital Atresia of the Oesophagus with Infantile Pyloric Stenosis

Case of congenital atresia of the oesophagus with infantile pyloric stenosis.

History. A healthy white woman of 24 was delivered on October 14, 1944, of her third full term male child which weighed 5 lb. 15 oz. The infant cried promptly but was cyanosed. There was abundant mucus in the pharynx, and moist medium rales were present throughout the chest. No pyloric tumour was noted. Oxygen by nasal funnel relieved the cyanosis until the child fed, whereupon, within twenty s...

Congenital Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis: A Case Report

Background Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS) is a common surgical condition in infancy, and typically presents at 2-4 weeks of age. Case Presentation A full term male neonate in Zeinabieh hospital, Shiraz, Iran was presented with oral feeding intolerance from birth, bile-stained...

Congenital atresia of the oesophagus.

Case In Point: Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis

A 7-week-old white boy presented to the emergency department (ED) with vomiting and weight loss. His parents brought him to the ED 3 weeks earlier after he had vomited for several days. Possible milk protein allergy was diagnosed at that visit, and a change from cow milk formula to an elemental formula was recommended. Vomiting subsequently increased in frequency. Nonbilious but forceful vomiti...

Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.

We present 40 patients operated consecutively for pyloric stenosis during an 8-year period (1981-88). The most common symptom was projectile vomiting, which occurred in 92.5% of the cases. On examination only three patients had a palpable hypertrophic pylorus. In 39 patients, a preoperative x-ray examination with contrast was necessary to confirm the diagnosis. A pyleromyotomy was performed in ...