"The spectrum of what could have gone wrong was pretty big," says Casey Price ...

Gastroschisis is a complex and costly birth condition that affects babies' bowels. Cases have doubled in the United States over the last two decades. We talked with Geoanna M. Bautista, an assistant ...

What if your baby was born with some of its internal organs outside the body? You may not have heard of gastroschisis before, and therefore think it’s a rare condition. But rates of this birth defect ...

3-D ultrasound image demonstrating free loops of intestine in amniotic cavity at 34 weeks of gestation. (Rachel Page et al.) Cases of a rare birth defect called gastroschisis are increasing in the U.S ...

Gastroschisis is a congenital defect that affects development of the abdominal wall while a baby is growing inside the womb. The baby is born without their abdominal wall intact and surgery is ...

A serious birth defect that leaves a newborn's intestine's dangling outside the body is becoming increasingly common, and health officials aren't sure what's causing it. Cases of the abdominal wall ...

A newborn with with severe gastroschisis — her kidneys, stomach, liver, fallopian tubes, intestines, and ovaries were outside of her body — improved within a few weeks A baby born with her organs ...

Gastroschisis (Greek word for “abdominal cleft”) refers to a usually small (<4cm) full-thickness paraumbilical (usually right-sided) congenital disability of the abdominal wall, allowing abdominal ...

Washoe County, Nevada, U.S., experienced a cluster of a particular birth defect, gastroschisis, during the period April 2007 - April 2008. Gastroschisis is a birth defect that occurs early in ...

A decline in smoking in the general population, including pregnant people, over the last few decades corresponded with a decline in infants born with a birth defect called gastroschisis, according to ...

The prevalence of gastroschisis, a serious abdominal wall birth defect, in the United States has continued to increase since the 1980s, especially in infants born to young, black mothers, the Centers ...