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Gastroschisis may be good, bad, not so ugly, and falsely beautiful
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In brief
This commentary discusses the dynamic nature of bowel ischemia in gastroschisis, challenging the static classification of constriction at the abdominal ring. The authors argue that non-ischemic bowel at birth may have previously experienced ischemic changes, as the interaction between ring characteristics and herniated contents evolves over time.
Written by the GCMD Library team from the article.
Concerning the excellent paper “Closing gastroschisis: The good, the bad, and the not-so ugly” by Perrone et al. [1], we would like to add some comments regarding the type A of the classification proposed by the authors (bowel that is significantly constricted at the ring with ischemia but without atresia). In our opinion it is difficult to assume that a patient presenting a nonischemic bowel at the moment of birth has not been a type A before, as the interaction between size/rigidity of the ring and volume of extruding mesentery/bowel is dynamic.
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