Esophageal Web in a Down Syndrome Infant—A Rare Case Report

We describe the rare case of an infant with trisomy 21 who presented with recurrent vomiting and aspiration pneumonia and a failure to thrive. Infants with Down’s syndrome have been known to have various problems in the gastrointestinal tract. In the esophagus, what have been described are dysmotili...

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Autores principales: Thomas, Nirmala, Mukkada, Roy J., Abdul Jalal, Muhammed Jasim, Narayanankutty, Nisha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5789292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29324645
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children5010010
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author Thomas, Nirmala
Mukkada, Roy J.
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Narayanankutty, Nisha
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description We describe the rare case of an infant with trisomy 21 who presented with recurrent vomiting and aspiration pneumonia and a failure to thrive. Infants with Down’s syndrome have been known to have various problems in the gastrointestinal tract. In the esophagus, what have been described are dysmotility, gastroesophageal reflux and strictures. This infant on evaluation was found to have an esophageal web and simple endoscopic dilatation relieved the infant of her symptoms. No similar case has been reported in literature.
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spelling pubmed-57892922018-02-02 Esophageal Web in a Down Syndrome Infant—A Rare Case Report Thomas, Nirmala Mukkada, Roy J. Abdul Jalal, Muhammed Jasim Narayanankutty, Nisha Children (Basel) Case Report We describe the rare case of an infant with trisomy 21 who presented with recurrent vomiting and aspiration pneumonia and a failure to thrive. Infants with Down’s syndrome have been known to have various problems in the gastrointestinal tract. In the esophagus, what have been described are dysmotility, gastroesophageal reflux and strictures. This infant on evaluation was found to have an esophageal web and simple endoscopic dilatation relieved the infant of her symptoms. No similar case has been reported in literature. MDPI 2018-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5789292/ /pubmed/29324645 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children5010010 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29324645
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children5010010
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