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Risk factors of enterostomy in neonates with Hirschsprung disease
Zhaozhou Liu1, Yanan Zhang1, Shuangshuang Li1
1Department of Neonatal Surgery, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, 56 South Lishi Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100045, China.
Purpose:
This study was aiming to explore the risk factors contributing to enterostomy in neonates with Hirschsprung disease (HD) to provide a reference for clinicians to make treatment decisions.
Methods:
Medical records of 284 patients diagnosed with HD during the neonatal period were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into 2 groups based on operative intervention (one stage transanal pull-through, versus enterotomy and staged transanal pull-through). Univariate and multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to identify risk factors contributing to enterostomy.
Results:
The incidence of enterostomy was 12.0% (34/284) in neonates with HD. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that serum albumin < 25.4 g/L, radiographic results as subphrenic free air, and level of aganglionosis with long-segment or total colonic aganglionosis (TCA) were independent risk factors of enterostomy in neonates, with OR of 42.045 (6.131, 288.319), 285.558 (26.651, 3059.694) and 15.573 (4.319, 56.157), respectively.
Conclusions:
The low serum albumin level, bowel perforation, and level of aganglionosis with long-segment or TCA could influence the occurrence of enterostomy in neonates with HD.
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