Vanishing Gastroschisis with a Favorable Outcome after a 3-Year Follow-Up: A Case Report and Literature Review

Table 1

First author	Case	Gestational age	Length of small bowel remaining	Type of surgery	PN	PN-related complications	Issue
Johnson [25]	1	38	0 cm (blind ending duodenum)	Explorative laparotomy only	NA	NA	Died at 4 days
Bromley [13]	2	36	0 cm	End duodenostomy	NA	NA	Died at 7 days
Bhatia [26]	3	34	25 cm jejunum	Jejunostomy and colonic mucous fistula and then closure of the stomas with anastomosis		Liver failure	Died at 18 months
Anveden-Hertzberg [18]	4		25 cm duodenum+jejunum	End jejunostomy		Liver failure at 8 months	Died at 10 months
Morris-Stiff [27]	5	36	10 cm jejunum	Explorative laparotomy only	NA	NA	Died a few days later
Kimble [28]	6	36	0 cm dilated (blind ending duodenum)	Explorative laparotomy only	NA	NA	Died at 7 days
Celayir [29]	7	36	25 cm jejunum	Jejunocolic anastomosis		Catheter-related sepsis	Died at 4 months
	8		10 cm jejunum	Explorative laparotomy only		NA	Died
	9		25 cm jejunum	Jejunocolic anastomosis. STEP at 6 weeks		Cholestasis	Alive at 4 months
Barsoom [10]	10	34	10 cm jejunum	LILT at 5 months		Liver failure at 8 months	Died
Ogunyemi [17]	11	32	15 cm jejunum	Jejunocolic anastomosis, intestinal transplantation at 53 months		Liver transplantation at 53 months	Alive at 4 years and a half
Davenport [30]	12	36	22 cm jejunum	Jejunostomy and mucous fistula, LILT at 5 and 12 weeks with jejunocolic anastomosis	Weekly parenteral infusion of electrolyte	Liver transplantation at 12 months	Alive at 2.5 years old
Basaran [31]	13	35	30 cm jejunum	Jejunocolostomy		Cholestasis	Died at 2 months
Winter [32]	14	35	17 cm jejunum	Jejunocolic anastomosis and LILT and then bowel transplantation			Alive at 32 months
Sandy [33]	15	35+ 5	30 cm small bowel	Jejunocolic anastomosis. STEP at 30 months	Daily	Cholestasis	Alive at 37 months
Vogler [12]	16-17		10 cm small bowel	Explorative laparotomy only	NA	NA	Died a few days later
	18		23.5 cm small bowel	Jejunocolic anastomosis, STEP at 6 weeks	Daily	Cholestasis	Alive at 4 months
Foucher [14]	19		0 cm (blind ending duodenum)	Explorative laparotomy only		NA	Died at 5 days
Houben [34]	20	32	15 cm jejunum	Jejunocolic anastomosis		Liver failure	Died at 9 months
Buluggiu [35]	21	38	45 cm jejunum	Jejunostomy, colostomy. Anastomosis one month later. Bianchi’s procedure modified by Aigrain at 5 months	Stopped at 14 months		Alive at 25 months
Khalil BA 2010 [36]	22	36	30 cm jejunum	Bowel tube stomas, LILT at 6 months		NA	Alive at 2 years old
	23	33	20 cm jejunum	Jejuno-colic anastomosis		Liver failure	Died at 4 months
Lawther [37]	24	35	47 cm jejunum	Small bowel stoma and colonic mucous fistula. Closure of the stomas at 3 months. Revision of anastomosis at 5 months		Liver failure. Catheter-related sepsis	Died at 10 months
Dahl [38]	25		120 cm small bowel	End-to-end anastomosis		NA	Alive at 21 months
Kumar [39]	26	>37	0 cm (blind ending duodenum)	Explorative laparotomy only		NA	Died a few days later
	27		20-22 cm jejunum	STEP and jejunocolic anastomosis		NA	Transferred to transplant center
	28		13 cm jejunum	Explorative laparotomy only		NA	Died
	29		7-8 cm jejunum	Jejunocolic anastomosis		NA	Transferred to transplant center
Wood [40]	30	36	30 cm jejunum	Tube stomas. AGIR at 5 days	Stopped at 6 months		Alive at 3 years old
	31	35	20 cm jejunum	AGIR	4 days a week		Alive at time of publication
	32		20 cm jejunum	Currently undergoing active tissue expansion	NA	NA	Alive at time of publication
Dennison [15]	33	33	18 cm jejunum	Jejunostomy	NA	NA	Died at 28 days
Abdel-Latif [41]	34	>37	30 cm jejunum and 40 cm ilium	End-to-end anastomosis and double barrel colostomy	NA	NA	Alive at 30 days
Ponce [42]	35	32+ 5	27 cm jejunum	Jejunocolic anastomosis, LILT at 7 months	Daily		Alive at 7 years old
Perrone [11]	36-39	(-)	37 cm small intestine (mean)	3 (1-4) abdominal operations required (median with range)			One died. 3 alive at time of publication
Abi Rached	40	35	50 cm jejunum	Jejunocolic anastomosis, revision of anastomosis at 28 months	2 nights a week		Alive at 3 years old

AGIR: autologous gastrointestinal reconstruction; LILT: longitudinal intestinal lengthening and tailoring; NA: not applicable; PN: parenteral nutrition; STEP: serial transverse enteroplasty.