Predictive factors at birth of the severity of gastroschisis

Table 1 Summary of clinical conditions for the 68 cases of gastroschisis

	Mean	Median
Birth weight	2501 g
Gestational age	35.6 wk	36 wk
Female sex	53%
Mother's age	23 yr
Timing of closure	2.5 d
Silo	25% (17)
Severely inflamed	72% (49)
Perforations	13.2% (9)
Volvulus	11.7% (8)
Atresia	17.6% (12)
Bowel less than 100 cm	66% (39)
Short bowel less than 50 cm	30% (21)
Stenosis	8.8% (6)
NEC	7.35% (5)
Mortality	11.7% (8)
For 60 children (68 minus eight deaths)
Intubation in days	8.5 d	5 d
1st feeding	17.3 d	11 d
Timing of total milk feeding
Days of TPN	56.7 d	22 d
Hospitalization	54.7 d	25.5 d

NEC: Necrotizing enterocolitis; TPN: Total parenteral nutrition.