title: Low birthweight babies with oesophageal atresia or tracheo-oesophageal fistula.
abstract: Of 142 patients of known gestation with oesophageal atresia or tracheo-oesophageal fistula, 21% were preterm with a mean weight of 2 kg, 19% were small-for-dates with a mean weight of 2.23 kg, and the remaining 60% were born at term and weighed more than 2.5 kg. There were almost five times as many preterm and almost eight times as many small-for-date infants as in a normal population. Respiratory distress syndrome and additional severe congenital anomalies were commoner in babies of short gestational age, and pneumonia was more common in small-for-dates babies.
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple; D004933:Esophageal Atresia / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D014138:Tracheoesophageal Fistula / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery