Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Both patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) and vascular rings often require surgical treatment. Persistent PDAs can lead to congestive heart failure, failure to thrive, and pulmonary hypertension as well…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Aortopexy is indicated in young patients with life-threatening tracheal obstruction secondary to severe tracheomalacia. The tracheomalacia may be primary or secondary. The secondary form is often seen in…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Esophageal atresia (EA), with or without a tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF), is one of the more uncommon congenital anomalies, occurring in 1 in 5000 births. These newborns present shortly…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com. Management of anterior and middle mediastinal masses in children often depends on obtaining tissue for diagnosis. Conversely, most posterior mediastinal masses require resection. Historically, several modalities have been available,…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Thoracoscopy was first described in the early 1900s, and by the mid-1990s, thoracoscopic lung biopsy had become accepted as a superior technique for obtaining tissue in cases of…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . The need to obtain diagnostic lung tissue occurs often in infants and children. Disease processes such as interstitial lung disease (ILD), infectious lung disease, and metastatic lung lesions…
Although thoracoscopy was first described in the early 1900s, the minimally invasive approach to thoracic conditions has undergone an exponential increase in popularity and growth over the last two decades. In the 1970s and 1980s, the first significant experience with…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . Paralysis or eventration of the diaphragm is a relatively uncommon problem in infants and children, but one that can cause significant respiratory distress. Eventration may be congenital in…
Esophageal atresia (EA) and tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) anomalies present the pediatric surgeon with a unique and complex congenital disease, which tests both the diagnostic and technical skill of the surgeon. Most pediatric surgeons consider the surgical correction of these malformations…
Access the accompanying videos for this chapter online. Available on ExpertConsult.com . There are a number of conditions that require an intestinal resection and anastomosis in the neonate. These include intestinal atresia, intestinal duplication, mesenteric cyst, and intestinal stricture (either…