TY - JOUR T1 - Evaluation of treatment strategies for congenital abnormality of anterior abdominal wall in referrals of Ali Asghar Hospital in Tehran from 1991 to 2000 TT - نقص مادرزادی دیواره قدامی شکم، امفالوسل، گاستروشزیس JF - KAUMS JO - KAUMS VL - 5 IS - 3 UR - http://feyz.kaums.ac.ir/article-1-372-en.html Y1 - 2001 SP - 77 EP - 82 KW - Congenital abnormality of anterior abdominal wall KW - Emphalocele KW - Gastroschisis N2 - History and Objectives: Considering the high incidence of congenital abnormality of anterior abdominal wall and its increasing trend and various reports on the efficacy of treatments and lack of information in Iran, this study was carried out of referrals of Ali Asghar hospital from 1991 to 2000. Materials and Methods: This research study was performed on existing data collected from the medical records of the affected infants and individual characteristics, kind of disorder, accompanied disorders, age, duration of hospitalization, treatment strategy and its result were collected and statistically analyzed. Results: In this study 30 infants (18 males and 12 females) were evaluated. In this respect, 7 patients had gastroschisis and 23 patients had emphalocele. Meanwhile, there was a mortality rate of 60% and in 40% of them there existed a successful outcome. In this regard, the success rate was 69.6% for emphalocele and 28.6% for gastroschisis (P M3 ER -