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T1  - Fundoplication in Patients with Esophageal Atresia : Patient Selection, Indications, and Outcomes 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/188830 
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A1  - Rintala, Risto J. 
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Y1  - 2017 
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AB  - Patients with esophageal atresia (EA) suffer from abnormal and permanent esophageal intrinsic and extrinsic innervation that affects severely esophageal motility. The repair of EA also results in esophageal shortening that affects distal esophageal sphincter mechanism. Consequently, gastroesophageal reflux (GER) is common in these patients, overall approximately half of them suffer from symptomatic reflux. GER in EA patients often resists medical therapy and anti-reflux surgery in the form of fu... 
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KW  - esophageal atresia; fundoplication; anti-reflux surgery; gastroesophageal reflux; anastomotic stricture; acute life-threatening events; long-gap atresia; PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGMATIC-HERNIA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL-REFLUX DISEASE; LAST 20 YEARS; NISSEN FUNDOPLICATION; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; FOLLOW-UP; RESPIRATORY MORBIDITY; PULMONARY-FUNCTION; HIATAL-HERNIA; 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics 
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