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.

Table 2 Comparison in days between two groups of 60 children depending on the presence of atresia, volvulus and perivisceritis (68 minus eight deaths)

	Atresia(n = 12)	Non atresia (n = 48)	Mann-Whitney test	Volvulus (n = 8)	No volvulus (n = 52)	Mann-Whitney test	Subjective perivisceritis (n = 49)	Subjective low perivisceritis (n = 19)	Mann-Whitney test
TPN duration	60	20	0.005	36	20	0.140	34.5	22	0.564
Start of total oral milk intake	10	11	0.809	11	7.5	0.212	11	10.5	0.569
Total oral milk intake	56	20	0.05	22	17	0.468	36	21	0.196
Mean hospitalization	64	24.5	0.021	48	25.5	0.309	39	25.5	0.505

TPN: Total parenteral nutrition.