Natural History of Infants With Patent Processus Vaginalis

Description

This will be a multi-center prospective observational study of all patients who undergo laparoscopic pyloromyotomy. Subjects who have PPV will be followed up to just before their 18th birthday through annual phone calls or emails to determine the incidence and timing of subsequent inguinal hernia.

Conditions

Patent Processus Vaginalis, Inguinal Hernia

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Study Details

Study overview

This will be a multi-center prospective observational study of all patients who undergo laparoscopic pyloromyotomy. Subjects who have PPV will be followed up to just before their 18th birthday through annual phone calls or emails to determine the incidence and timing of subsequent inguinal hernia.

Natural History of Infants With Patent Processus Vaginalis

Natural History of Infants With Patent Processus Vaginalis

Condition
Patent Processus Vaginalis
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Kansas City

Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64108

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * All patients having laparoscopic surgery for pyloric stenosis. Subjects are anticipated to be less than four months of age at the time of enrollment.
  • * Enrollment inclusion dates: 08/2016 (upon IRB approval) to 7/31/2025
  • * Patients who are anticipated to have a hostile abdomen for visualizing the inguinal rings (e.g. gastroschisis, necrotizing enterocolitis)
  • * Patients who have unilateral or bilateral undescended testes
  • * Patients undergoing open pyloromyotomy
  • * Patients who have a known hernia

Ages Eligible for Study

1 Day to 4 Months

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City,

Shawn D St. Peter, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Study Record Dates

2036-12