TY - JOUR
T1 - Survival of infants born with esophageal atresia among 24 international birth defects surveillance programs
AU - Bell, Jane C.
AU - Baynam, Gareth
AU - Bergman, Jorieke E. H.
AU - Bermejo-Sanchez, Eva
AU - Botto, Lorenzo D.
AU - Canfield, Mark A.
AU - Dastgiri, Saeed
AU - Gatt, Miriam
AU - Groisman, Boris
AU - Hurtado-Villa, Paula
AU - Kallen, Karin
AU - Khoshnood, Babak
AU - Konrad, Victoria
AU - Landau, Danielle
AU - Lopez-Camelo, Jorge S.
AU - Martinez, Laura
AU - Morgan, Margery
AU - Mutchinick, Osvaldo M.
AU - Nance, Amy E.
AU - Nembhard, Wendy
AU - Pierini, Anna
AU - Rissmann, Anke
AU - Shan, Xiaoyi
AU - Sipek, Antonin
AU - Szabova, Elena
AU - Tagliabue, Giovanna
AU - Yevtushok, Lyubov S.
AU - Zarante, Ignacio
AU - Nassar, Natasha
PY - 2021/7/15
Y1 - 2021/7/15
N2 - Background Esophageal atresia (EA) affects around 2.3-2.6 per 10,000 births world-wide. Infants born with this condition require surgical correction soon after birth. Most survival studies of infants with EA are locally or regionally based. We aimed to describe survival across multiple world regions.Methods We included infants diagnosed with EA between 1980 and 2015 from 24 birth defects surveillance programs that are members of the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research. We calculated survival as the proportion of liveborn infants alive at 1 month, 1- and 5-years, among all infants with EA, those with isolated EA, those with EA and additional anomalies or EA and a chromosomal anomaly or genetic syndrome. We also investigated trends in survival over the decades, 1980s-2010s.Results We included 6,466 liveborn infants with EA. Survival was 89.4% (95% CI 88.1-90.5) at 1-month, 84.5% (95% CI 83.0-85.9) at 1-year and 82.7% (95% CI 81.2-84.2) at 5-years. One-month survival for infants with isolated EA (97.1%) was higher than for infants with additional anomalies (89.7%) or infants with chromosomal or genetic syndrome diagnoses (57.3%) with little change at 1- and 5-years. Survival at 1 month improved from the 1980s to the 2010s, by 6.5% for infants with isolated EA and by 21.5% for infants with EA and additional anomalies.Conclusions Almost all infants with isolated EA survived to 5 years. Mortality was higher for infants with EA and an additional anomaly, including chromosomal or genetic syndromes. Survival improved from the 1980s, particularly for those with additional anomalies.
AB - Background Esophageal atresia (EA) affects around 2.3-2.6 per 10,000 births world-wide. Infants born with this condition require surgical correction soon after birth. Most survival studies of infants with EA are locally or regionally based. We aimed to describe survival across multiple world regions.Methods We included infants diagnosed with EA between 1980 and 2015 from 24 birth defects surveillance programs that are members of the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research. We calculated survival as the proportion of liveborn infants alive at 1 month, 1- and 5-years, among all infants with EA, those with isolated EA, those with EA and additional anomalies or EA and a chromosomal anomaly or genetic syndrome. We also investigated trends in survival over the decades, 1980s-2010s.Results We included 6,466 liveborn infants with EA. Survival was 89.4% (95% CI 88.1-90.5) at 1-month, 84.5% (95% CI 83.0-85.9) at 1-year and 82.7% (95% CI 81.2-84.2) at 5-years. One-month survival for infants with isolated EA (97.1%) was higher than for infants with additional anomalies (89.7%) or infants with chromosomal or genetic syndrome diagnoses (57.3%) with little change at 1- and 5-years. Survival at 1 month improved from the 1980s to the 2010s, by 6.5% for infants with isolated EA and by 21.5% for infants with EA and additional anomalies.Conclusions Almost all infants with isolated EA survived to 5 years. Mortality was higher for infants with EA and an additional anomaly, including chromosomal or genetic syndromes. Survival improved from the 1980s, particularly for those with additional anomalies.
KW - congenital anomalies
KW - esophageal atresia
KW - infant
KW - mortality
KW - survival
U2 - 10.1002/bdr2.1891
DO - 10.1002/bdr2.1891
M3 - Article
SN - 2472-1727
VL - 113
SP - 945
EP - 957
JO - Birth Defects Research
JF - Birth Defects Research
IS - 12
ER -