The treatment of pyloric stenosis: Evolution in practice
Author(s)
Taghavi, Kiarash
Powell, Emma
Patel, Bhaveshkumar
McBride, Craig A
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2017
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Over the last hundred years, idiopathic hypertrophic pyloric stenosis has undergone an evolution in treatment, with subsequent improvements in outcome. Initially, it was treated by physicians with antispasmodics and various alternative feeding and resuscitation modalities. The evolution of surgical approaches led to a revolution in outcome, from almost certain death to complete cure. The progression of surgical and medical treatments is reviewed in this article until, ultimately, Ramstedt's pyloromyotomy is reached. This distilled operation has remained the gold-standard procedure for over a century.Over the last hundred years, idiopathic hypertrophic pyloric stenosis has undergone an evolution in treatment, with subsequent improvements in outcome. Initially, it was treated by physicians with antispasmodics and various alternative feeding and resuscitation modalities. The evolution of surgical approaches led to a revolution in outcome, from almost certain death to complete cure. The progression of surgical and medical treatments is reviewed in this article until, ultimately, Ramstedt's pyloromyotomy is reached. This distilled operation has remained the gold-standard procedure for over a century.
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Journal Title
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
Volume
53
Issue
11
Subject
Clinical sciences
Health services and systems
Public health
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Pediatrics
History of Medicine
Idiopathic Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis