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Table 1 Patients’ demographics in this study

From: Preoperative management comprising tube irrigation using a trans-anal indwelling tube for infants with hirschsprung disease can allow single-stage radical surgery

Patients’ background of 39 HD cases

 

Gestational age, median (interquartile range)

38w6d (37w6d–39w5d)

Male, n (%)

32 (82%)

Type of HD based on histological data of the excised segment

 

Short-segment HD, n (%)

30 (77%)

Long-segment HD, n (%)

Four (10%)

Total colonic aganglionosis, n (%)

Five (13%)

≤ 5 cm small bowel proximal to the ileocecal valve

> 5 cm and < 50 cm small bowel proximal to the ileocecal valve

Three cases

Two cases

Comorbidities

 

21 Trisomy, n (%)

Seven (18%)

Mowat-Wilson syndrome, n (%)

One (3%)

  1. HD, Hirschsprung’s disease