Efficacy of Medical Treatment for Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis: A Meta-analysis

• Main Authors: Shu-Fen Wu (Author), Hsiang-Yu Lin (Author), Fu-Kuei Huang (Author), An-Chyi Chen (Author), Bai-Horng Su (Author), Chia-Ing Li (Author), Hung-Chih Lin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) is a common disease in infancy. Pyloromyotomy is universally considered the treatment for IHPS; however, oral or intravenous atropine has been reappraised for the treatment of IHPS in the past 20 years. We investigated the efficacy of atropine in the me...