Pyloric Stenosis and Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis in Infants

• Published in: Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition Vol. 6; no. 4; pp. 543 - 547
• Main Authors: Snyder, John D., Rosenblum, Norman, Wershil, Barry, Goldman, Harvey, Winter, Harland S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hagerstown, MD Lippincott-Raven Publishers 01.07.1987; Lippincott
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Dietary Proteins - adverse effects; Eosinophilia - complications; Eosinophilia - etiology; Eosinophilia - pathology; Eosinophilic gastroenteritis; Gastroenteritis - complications; Gastroenteritis - etiology; Gastroenteritis - pathology; gastroenteritis on gastric antral biopsies. Their presentation is compared with the clinical and laboratory findings of 47 other infants with pyloric stenosis; Gastroenterology. Liver. Pancreas. Abdomen; Humans; Hypertrophy - etiology; Hypertrophy - pathology; Infant; Male; Malformations; Medical sciences; Obstruction; Pyloric Antrum - pathology; Pyloric stenosis; Pyloric Stenosis - etiology; Pyloric Stenosis - pathology; Stomach. Duodenum. Small intestine. Colon. Rectum. Anus; Human; Stomach; Concomitant disease; Congenital; Malformation; Etiopathogenesis; Pylorus; Digestive diseases; Infant; Hypertrophic stenosis; Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
• ISSN: 0277-2116; 1536-4801
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1536-4801.1987.tb09349.x

Summary Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is known to cause gastric outlet obstruction in adults, but has been reported only rarely in infants presenting with pyloric stenosis, a common form of gastric outlet obstruction in children. We describe two infants who presented with classic clinical and radiographic evidence of pyloric stenosis and who were found to have histologic evidence of eosinophilic