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Gastrostomy and congenital anomalies: a European population-based study
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Joachim Tan,
Maria Loane,
Silvia Baldacci ,
Elisa Ballardini,
Joanne Brigden,
Clara Cavero-Carbonell,
Laura García-Villodre,
Mika Gissler,
Joanne Given,
Anna Heino,
Sue Jordan,
Elizabeth Limb,
Amanda Julie Neville,
Anke Rissmann ,
Michele Santoro,
Ieuan Scanlon,
Stine Kjaer Urhoj ,
Diana G Wellesley,
Joan Morris
BMJ Paediatrics Open, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Start page: e001526
Swansea University Authors: Sue Jordan, Ieuan Scanlon
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DOI (Published version): 10.1136/bmjpo-2022-001526
Abstract
Objective To report and compare the proportion of children with and without congenital anomalies undergoing gastrostomy for tube feeding in their first 5 years.Methods A European, population-based data-linkage cohort study (EUROlinkCAT). Children up to 5 years of age registered in nine EUROCAT regis...
| Published in: | BMJ Paediatrics Open |
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| ISSN: | 2399-9772 |
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2022
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60337 |
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Objective To report and compare the proportion of children with and without congenital anomalies undergoing gastrostomy for tube feeding in their first 5 years.Methods A European, population-based data-linkage cohort study (EUROlinkCAT). Children up to 5 years of age registered in nine EUROCAT registries (national and regional) in six countries and children without congenital anomalies (reference children) living in the same geographical areas were included. Data on hospitalisation and surgical procedures for all children were obtained by electronic linkage to hospital databases.Results The study included 91 504 EUROCAT children and 1 960 272 reference children. Overall, 1200 (1.3%, 95% CI 1.2% to 1.6%) EUROCAT children and 374 (0.016%, 95% CI 0.009% to 0.026%) reference children had a surgical code for gastrostomy within the first 5 years of life. There were geographical variations across Europe with higher rates in Northern Europe compared with Southern Europe. Around one in four children with Cornelia de Lange syndrome and Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome had a gastrostomy. Among children with structural anomalies, those with oesophageal atresia had the highest proportion of gastrostomy (15.9%).Conclusions This study including almost 2 million reference children in Europe found that only 0.016% of these children had a surgery code for gastrostomy before age 5 years. The children with congenital anomalies were on average 80 times more likely to need a gastrostomy before age 5 years than children without congenital anomalies. More than two-thirds of gastrostomy procedures performed within the first 5 years of life were in children with congenital anomalies. |
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 733001. |
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