Children Growing Up With Hollow Visceral Myopathy

Surgical treatment and prognosis of chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction in children

“…Even when the syndrome appears to be localized in an isolated segment of the bowel, there may be subtle evidence of abnormality in other parts of the gastrointestinal tract [3,9]. In fact, our results suggest that the majority (86.3%) of cases involved some generalized features.…”

Intestinal transplantation in children with chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction

“…Patients with urinary bladder neuromuscular disease are at risk of urinary tract infections. Malrotation has been reported in 40–70% of children with CIPO,2 3 increasing the risk of volvulus and bowel ischaemia. When immunodeficiencies are associated with CIPO, there is a higher risk of sepsis and other life threatening infections 8.…”