Offspring of patients with tracheo-oesophageal fistula

AUTOR(ES)

Warren, Joan

RESUMO

One previous study has shown that the proportion affected of sibs of index patients with tracheo-oesophageal fistula is low. The survivors of the first successful operations for tracheo-oesophageal fistula are now reaching adult life, thus making possible a preliminary estimate of the proportion affected of children of index patients. From the records of two London hospitals a list of 99 consecutive patients was compiled; they were alive after operation and not known to have died since. Of these, 7 were living abroad, 4 were not willing to co-operate, and 9 (alive when last seen at hospital and probably still living) were not traced. The families of the remaining 79 were visited.

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