Abstract
Response to: Low gestational age is associated with less anastomotic complications after open primary repair of esophageal atresia with tracheoesophgeal fistula. BMC Paediatric 2020; 20:267
Highlights
We read with interest Dingermann et al.’s recent paper Low gestational age is associated with less anastomotic complications after open primary repair of esophageal atresia with tracheoesophageal fistula
*Correspondence: vanessa.coles2@nhs.net 1 Department of Paediatric Surgery, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, London, UK Full list of author information is available at the end of the article from an ethics textbook [3] and another, concerning the administration of maternal steroids to promote fetal lung maturation, itself uses 37 weeks as the definition of prematurity [4]
The key analysis comparing the occurrence of complications in each group (< 34 weeks and ≥ 34 weeks gestation) has been performed in a highly unusual manner
Summary
We read with interest Dingermann et al.’s recent paper Low gestational age is associated with less anastomotic complications after open primary repair of esophageal atresia with tracheoesophageal fistula. *Correspondence: vanessa.coles2@nhs.net 1 Department of Paediatric Surgery, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, London, UK Full list of author information is available at the end of the article from an ethics textbook [3] and another, concerning the administration of maternal steroids to promote fetal lung maturation, itself uses 37 weeks as the definition of prematurity [4]. As the median gestational age in the cohort presented was 37 weeks, using this widely accepted definition of “preterm” would have given two equal groups to compare.
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