Vater or Vacterl Is Referred Term Paper

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All surgeries were successful and the prognosis based on follow up testing was good. (Yamashiro et al., 2007)

Tracheoplasty was also carried out for fourteen patients, seven of whom showed other symptoms of VATER association and the rest presented tracheal problems without other VATER symptoms. (Fiore, Brown, Weber, & Turrentine, 2005)the same treatment modality was used for all patients with the loss of only two patients. Follow up indicated that this was a sound modality for treatment of tracheal defects in VATER associations. Similarly, urinary tract reconstruction was deemed successful and safe for end-stage renal disease in infants.
The overall patient survival rate was 95%. (DeFoor et al., 2003) and, in another study, it was shown that neurosurgical treatment was successful 60% of the time for hydrocephalus from VATER, which prompts the researchers to indicate that the prognosis of certain death is not necessarily true and that the patients who survived have good prognosis.

It would seem then that treatment modalities for VATER are no different from other symptoms. That is because the symptoms are treated. It will be perhaps a while before the root cause of VATER -- the genes (one or more).....

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