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It can be corrected effectively with surgery, and usually is in many countries. However, early recognised cases, mild cases and older babies with PS can be treated with carefully managed feeding and medication to relax the pyloric muscle. About 5-10% of these will still end up needing surgery - but the others will escape the trauma that surgery can bring to parents and baby alike.
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What is Pyloric stenosis also called?
Pyloric stenosis is also referred to as hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
How is pyloric stenosis treated?
pylorotomy
What is the narrowing of the opening between the stomach and intestines?
The Pyloric valve.
What does the medical abbreviation PS mean?
Pyloric Stenosis
Who is at risk for pyloric stenosis?
Male infants with a family history of pyloric stenosis are more at risk of having the condition, which tends to occur less often in females, blacks, and Asians.
How did Jon cryer get a scar?
Jon Cryer is a famous actor that has appeared in several movies and television shows. He got his scar from a pyloric stenosis surgery.
What is the narrowing of the opening between the stomach and the intestine?
Pyloric stenosis
What is the medical term meaning narrowing of the sphincter?
GastrostenosisMedical Terminology:Stomach: Gastronarrowing: StenosisYou may be referring to a condition that is common in this region known as Pyloric Stenosis; narrowing of the pylorus which is the opening to the stomach.
What is the medical term meaning narrowing of the pyloric sphincter?
Pylororrhaphy is the medical term meaning suture of the pyloric valve. A related term, pyloroplasty, means surgical repair of the pyloric valve.
What is cured by pyloromyotomy?
Pyloric stenosis can be cured with a surgical procedure called a pyloromyotomy
What is spider web with pyloric stenosis?
Has anyone heard of this link? I doubt it. Mebbee a joke?
When does Pyloric stenosis happen?
It affects infants during the first several weeks of life
