Table 1.

Demographic data of the patients and their backgrounds

Sex	Diagnosis	Background	Age at replacement
Female	EA-I	Gastrostomy – first day of life	4 years
		Peritonitis for gastrostomy dislodgement – fifth day of life
		Esophageal anastomosis – 4 months
		Esophageal stenosis – 8 months
		Bowel occlusion, intestinal resection and colonic anastomosis – 3 years
Female	EA-I	Replogle tube and gastrostomy – first day of life	4 months
Male	EA-III	Closure of TEF, Replogle tube and gastrostomy – first day of life	4 months
Male	EA-III	Closure of TEF, end-to-end anastomosis, gastrostomy	6 years
		Recurrent TEF and esophageal stenosis unresponsive to endoscopic treatment
		Dor fundoplication – 2 years
Female	EA-III	Esophageal anastomosis and closure of TEF – first day of life	2 years
		Anastomotic leak, cervical esophagostomy and gastrostomy – first week of life
		Coloplasty – 1 year
		Complicated to graft’s necrosis, jejunostomy and cervical esophagostomy
Male	EA-III	Closure of TEF, cervical esophagostomy and gastrostomy – first day of life	15 months
Female	Caustic esophageal stenosis	Caustic ingestion – 20 months	3 years
		Gastrostomy – 24 months
		Esophageal dilatations complicated with rupture of esophagus
Female	Caustic esophageal stenosis	Caustic ingestion – 10 years	11 years
		Esophageal dilatations for 6 months

EA: esophageal atresia; TEF: tracheo-esophageal fistula