Journal of Pediatric Surgery 50 (2015) 696
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Correspondence
Letter to the editor Jayant Radhakrishnan University of Illinois, Chicago Corresponding author at: 1502, 71st Street, Darien, IL 60561 Tel.: +1 847 757 8747; fax: +1 630 963 5743 E-mail address: [email protected]
To the Editor, In our paper “Fate of the uterus in 46XX cloacal exstrophy patients”, we suggested that internal genitalia should be retained in these patients even though the only patient in our series who had conceived had miscarried at 11 weeks of pregnancy [1]. We wish to inform the readers that the same patient delivered a 4 lb 2 oz baby boy by elective caesarian section at 34 weeks gestation in February 2014. The infant is healthy and is meeting all his developmental milestones. On the other hand, the patient had a stormy pregnancy during which she had a bowel obstruction, renal infection, prolapsed vagina that required pessaries for correction, and preeclampsia. In spite of all her tribulations, she has no regrets about having gone through the pregnancy.
Anthony C. Chin Jessica A. Naiditch Earl Cheng Elizabeth Yerkes Marleta Reynolds Lurie Children' Hospital and Northwestern University, Chicago
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2015.01.001 Reference [1] Naiditch JA, Radhakrishnan J, Chin AC, et al. Fate of the uterus in 46XX cloacal exstrophy patients. J Pediatr Surg 2013;48:2043–6.
0022-3468/© 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Journal of Pediatric Surgery journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jpedsurg
Correspondence
Letter to the editor Jayant Radhakrishnan University of Illinois, Chicago Corresponding author at: 1502, 71st Street, Darien, IL 60561 Tel.: +1 847 757 8747; fax: +1 630 963 5743 E-mail address: [email protected]
To the Editor, In our paper “Fate of the uterus in 46XX cloacal exstrophy patients”, we suggested that internal genitalia should be retained in these patients even though the only patient in our series who had conceived had miscarried at 11 weeks of pregnancy [1]. We wish to inform the readers that the same patient delivered a 4 lb 2 oz baby boy by elective caesarian section at 34 weeks gestation in February 2014. The infant is healthy and is meeting all his developmental milestones. On the other hand, the patient had a stormy pregnancy during which she had a bowel obstruction, renal infection, prolapsed vagina that required pessaries for correction, and preeclampsia. In spite of all her tribulations, she has no regrets about having gone through the pregnancy.
Anthony C. Chin Jessica A. Naiditch Earl Cheng Elizabeth Yerkes Marleta Reynolds Lurie Children' Hospital and Northwestern University, Chicago
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2015.01.001 Reference [1] Naiditch JA, Radhakrishnan J, Chin AC, et al. Fate of the uterus in 46XX cloacal exstrophy patients. J Pediatr Surg 2013;48:2043–6.
0022-3468/© 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
