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Digestive & GastrointestinalModerate
Pyloric Stenosis
Pediatric Surgery · Digestive & Gastrointestinal
Moderate
Severity
Uncommon — affects approximately 2-3 per 1,000 live births, more common in firstborn boys
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Pediatric Surgery
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1The exact cause is not fully understood
- 2but it is believed to result from a combination of genetic and environmental factors that lead to progressive thickening of the pyloric muscle over the first weeks of life. Risk factors include being a firstborn male child
- 3a family history of pyloric stenosis
- 4and exposure to certain antibiotics in early infancy. It typically develops after birth rather than being present at delivery
- 5distinguishing it from a purely congenital malformation.
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