Esophageal atresia

Introduction: Esophageal atresia

Esophageal atresia: A rare birth defect where the esophagus is not connected to the stomach. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Esophageal atresia is available below.

Symptoms of Esophageal atresia

• Esophagus not connected to stomach
• Malformed esophagus
• Esophageal fistula
• Inability to swallow
• Excessive drooling

See full list of 12 symptoms of Esophageal atresia

Medical Textbooks Online about Esophageal atresia

Book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Diagnostic Tests for Esophageal atresia

• Chest x-rays

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Esophageal atresia?

• Misdiagnosis of Esophageal atresia
• Underlying causes of Esophageal atresia (possibly wrongly diagnosed)

Misdiagnosis and Esophageal atresia

Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that may be misdiagnosed. The best known, irritable bowel syndrome, is over...read more »

Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes called intestinal imbalance. The digestive system...read more »

Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely to cause some level of diarrhea in patients. The reason is that antibiotics kill off not...read more »

Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e. food poisoning). In fact,...read more »

Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be over-diagnosed (it can, of...read more »

Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive conditions is celiac disease, a malabsorption...read more »

Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases....read more »

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Causes of Esophageal atresia

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More information about causes of Esophageal atresia:

• Esophageal atresia as a symptom

Treatments for Esophageal atresia

• Surgery

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Patient Surveys for Esophageal atresia

• Patient Profile Survey
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Reseach about Esophageal atresia

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Clinical Trials for Esophageal atresia

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Esophageal atresia include:

• Rectal and Oral Omeprazole Treatment of Reflux Disease in Infants. - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Omeprazole suppository

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Definitions of Esophageal atresia:

Congenital abnormality characterized by the lack of full development of the ESOPHAGUS that commonly occurs with TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA. Symptoms include excessive SALIVATION; GAGGING; CYANOSIS; and DYSPNEA. - (Source - Diseases Database)

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Esophageal atresia as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet