“Oesophageal Atresia- We need to be seeing ya!”

In recent decades, much has changed in our expectations for the outcomes of children born with oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula [OA/TOF]. Things moved slowly, following the initial description of OA by Thomas Gibson in 1697 and, nearly 250 years later when the first successful, single-step surgery for OA by Cameron Haight was performed at the University of Michigan Hospital in 1941. This success was a long time coming and followed the work of surgeons Harry Richter in 1913, and subsequently Thomas Lanman, Robert Shaw N.

Source: Paediatric Respiratory Reviews - February 2, 2016 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Dominic A. Fitzgerald, Jonathan Karpelowsky Tags: Editorial Source Type: research