Table.

Characteristics of babies with long gap esophageal atresia

Patients	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Male	+	+	–	+	+	–	–	+	–	+
Gestational age	38	38	34	30	32	39	37	37	39	38
Birthweight	3250	3100	2970	2650	2560	3330	3150	3050	3350	3200
Distance of long of gaps (cm)	7	5	5	5	4	7	5	8	9	4
Gross type EA	A	A	A	C	C	C	A	A	A	C
Associated anomalies	Down Syndrome +Cardiac	Cardiac	Cardiac +renal	Vacterl syndrome	Cardiac	Cardiac	Cardiac+ musculoskletal	Cardiac	Down syndrome	Vacterl syndrome
Type of surgery	Foker method	Gazi method	DPA Bougie	Foker method	Gazi method	Foker method	DPA Bougie	Foker method	Foker+ Gazi method	Gazi method
Gastrostomy	–	–	3 d	1 d	–	2 d	2 d	1 d	1 d	–
Age at first surgery for EA	2	2	35	25	2	26	40	28	30	3
Age at final anastomosis	17 Oto anastomosis	2	35	42	2	39	40	39	45	3
Tractions day	11	–	–	14		10	–	8	11	–
Postoperative ventilation time	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	5	4
Postoperative ICU stay	25	14	11	20	13	12	8	12	15	9
Length of hospital stay	40	25	62	55	28	71	80	73	66	23
Postoperative first feeding	7	12	7	12	13	15	11	9	9	9
Full enteral feeding	25	16	24	30	19	43	28	32	26	19
Anastomotic leakage	+	+	–	–	+	–	+	+	–	+
Esophageal dilatation	1	3	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	2
Fundoplication	–	–	+	–	–	+	–	–	–	+
Other complications	–	–	–	–	–	Swallowing difficulty	–	–	–	–
Follow up	3 m ex (in home)	6 y	4 y	5 y	1 y	Ex 1 y	8 y	3 y	3 m	Ex 6 m (Cardiac)

DPA: delayed primer anastomosis

EA: esophageal atresia