Low birthweight babies with oesophageal atresia or tracheo-oesophageal fistula. Issue 10 (October 1975)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cozzi, F; Wilkinson, A W
• Is Part Of: Archives of disease in childhood. Volume 50:Issue 10(1975)
• Page Start: 791
• Page End: 795
• Publication Date: 1975-10
• Subjects: Children -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Infants -- Diseases -- Periodicals; 618.920005
• DOI: 10.1136/adc.50.10.791
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-9888

Abstract

Abstract : Of 142 patients of known gestation with oesophageal atresia or tracheo-oesophageal fistula, 21% were preterm with a mean weight of 2 kg, 19% were small-for-dates with a mean weight of 2.23 kg, and the remaining 60% were born at term and weighed more than 2.5 kg. There were almost five times as many preterm and almost eight times as many small-for-date infants as in a normal population. Respiratory distress syndrome and additional severe congenital anomalies were commoner in babies of short gestational age, and pneumonia was more common in small-for-dates babies.