Anaesthesia for congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. A review of 350 patients.
The anaesthetic management of 350 consecutive patients with congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis over an 8-year period is reviewed. The anaesthetic technique is discussed and the complications encountered reviewed. The morbidity rate was 15.9%. The anaesthetic related morbidity rate was 3.7%. One patient in the series died (0.27%) 8 weeks after pyloromyotomy, as a result of an underlying myopathy.
D000769:Anesthesia, Inhalation / Q000009:adverse effects; D000771:Anesthesia, Intravenous / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D011707:Pyloric Stenosis / Q000151:congenital* / Q000601:surgery