Is the Incidence of Gastroschisis Increasing Recently?

The national incidence and outcomes of gastroschisis repairs.

The birth prevalence of gastroschisis worldwide has increased over the past decades. We aim to determine the Irish national incidence of gastroschisis repairs (NIGR) over a 5 year period (2007- 2011) and clinical outcomes by a retrospective cohort review of cases admitted to all Irish paediatric surgical units. Seventy patients were identified. The NIGR per 10,000 live births was 1.96 (SD 0.51)...

Increasing Prevalence of Gastroschisis--14 States, 1995-2012.

Gastroschisis is a serious congenital defect in which the intestines protrude through an opening in the abdominal wall. Gastroschisis requires surgical repair soon after birth and is associated with an increased risk for medical complications and mortality during infancy. Reports from multiple surveillance systems worldwide have documented increasing prevalence of gastroschisis since the 1980s,...

The Increasing Incidence of Human

Emotional Disturbance/social Maladjustment: Why Is the Incidence Increasing?

Numerous arguments have addressed the controversies surrounding the category of emotional disturbance (ED) and the exclusion, or proposed inclusion, of students with social maladjustment (SM). In this article we address the consensually agreed upon characteristics of ED that are in common with SM, in addition to examining characteristics that supposedly also differentiate students who are ED fr...

Anemia after kidney transplantation--is the incidence increasing?

Prior to the availability of recombinant erythropoietin, virtually all kidney transplant recipients exhibited some degree of anemia in the early post-transplant period, primarily as the consequence of operative blood loss and postoperative phlebotomies superimposed on a preexisting state of hypoerthyropoiesis characteristic of renal failure. Restoration of endogenous erythropoietin secretion by...