Table 1.

Prenatal diagnosis in recent published data

Author	Setting	Period	Number of EA patients	Prenatal detection rate (%)	Note
Pini Prato et al7	Italian National Register	2012	146	29.6	Prenatal diagnosis significantly more frequent in Gross’ types A and B EA, compared with types C and D EA (8/10=80% vs 34/131=26%)
Leoncini et al8	Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies (WARDA)	1980–2009	260	7.7	Prenatal detection rate increased during the study period, with a corresponding decrease in the proportion of cases diagnosed in the first week of life
Garabedian et al9	French National Register	2008–2010	408	18.1	The morbidity rate for infants with prenatal diagnosis is significantly higher than for infants with postnatal diagnosis, with no difference in mortality rate

Abbreviation: EA, esophageal atresia.