Endoscopic follow-up in esophageal atresia—for how long is it necessary?

Endoscopic Assessment of Children with Esophageal Atresia: Lack of Relationship of Esophagitis and Esophageal Metaplasia to Symptomatology

“…The present study was one of the largest pediatric endoscopic series of patients with EA (11)(12)(13)(14)25). Our study was based on systematic endoscopic evaluation of all EA patients, with the intention of specifically screening for BE and esophagitis.…”

Endoscopic Surveillance After Repair of Oesophageal Atresia

“…Surveillance for oesophagitis only may be of little prognostic value and result in unnecessary repeat endoscopies (12). To assess the prognostic value of endoscopic oesophageal surveillance during childhood, we retrospectively reviewed >600 endoscopic biopsies in 209 patients from a period of 34 years.…”

Cancer after repair of esophageal atresia: population-based long-term follow-up

“…In fact, GER is a frequent finding after surgical repair of EA [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. It is believed that continuing reflux of acidic stomach secretions into the esophagus causes inflammation, metaplasia, dysplasia, and eventually adenocarcinoma [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Endoscopic follow-up studies of adult EA patients have demonstrated esophagitis [4,6], intestinal metaplasia [1,9,10,12], and even cases of esophageal carcinoma [12].…”