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Gastroschisis may be good, bad, not so ugly, and falsely beautiful

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Article · Apr 2019 · 1 min read

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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.

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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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