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Digestive & GastrointestinalSevere
Hirschsprung Disease
Pediatric Surgery · Digestive & Gastrointestinal
Severe
Severity
Uncommon — affects approximately 1 in 5,000 live births, more common in boys
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Pediatric Surgery
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Results from a failure of specialized nerve cells to migrate fully into the developing intestine during fetal development
- 2leaving a segment of bowel
- 3most commonly at the end of the large intestine
- 4without the nerve cells needed to coordinate normal muscle relaxation and stool movement. It has a notable genetic component
- 5with a family history increasing risk
- 6and is more common in children with certain genetic conditions such as Down syndrome. The exact combination of genetic factors involved varies between affected individuals.
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