Webinar Objectives
To explore current challenges in the care of gastroschisis patients in all environments, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.
To present interventions that may improve outcomes of gastroschisis in diverse health care environments.
4-month-old girl referred in 1990 with a complex cloaca and prior colostomy at birth.
2-year-old girl seen in 1979 with total urinary incontinence and a loop colostomy performed at birth in South America
2-year-old female patient with unusual variant of cloacal anatomy
Required only marsupialization of UG Sinus and relocation of the anus and rectum
3-year-old female patient referred for total urinary incontinence in March 1980, with an unusual cloacal variant
At birth, exploration showed a short colon attached to the dome of a small bladder by its cecum with two appendices, the usual situation in cloacal exstrophy
That was divided and exteriorized
An ileostomy was also performed
2-year-old female patient referred for cloacal repair in November 1981
No prior surgery except endoscopic and radiographic assessment of her cloacal anomaly
Normal chromosome study
On catheter drainage for several months as infant