Omphalocele: 10-year-experience
Canavese, F.; Bardini, T.; Freni, G.; Lanino, E.
La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica Medical and Surgical Pediatrics 6(3): 411-413
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-5387 PMID: 6085401 Document Number: 222466
We review our experience of 32 cases of omphalocele treated in the last ten years. Improved neonatal intensive care unit, as well as other support care measures, allowed to extend even to the large defects the indication to radical primary repair. Our experience has supported that this is the method of choice in almost all cases. At present the surgical success depend on associated anomalies, cardiac especially (25% in our series), and on development of sepsis. Analysis of the results shows an overall mortality rate of 41% in the period 1973/1982, significantly decreased to 33% in the last five years.