Author response to “Gastroschisis may be good, bad, not so ugly and falsely beautiful”

We appreciate the letter from Eyer Jesus, et al. in response to our study of infants with closing gastroschisis. The authors note that bowel that appears well perfused and without atresia at birth may be plagued with prolonged dysfunction after closure. They describe a case in which a patient with gastroschisis had no signs of ischemia at fascial closure, but subsequently required three operations for obstructive symptoms that appeared to be because of, sequentially, necrosis, stenosis, and atony.