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RN Nursing Children -GI Structural and Inflammatory DO
ATI 2010
5
Nursing
Undergraduate 4
03/04/2013

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Term
when gastric contents reflux back up into the esophagus, makng esophageal mucosa vulnerable to injury from gastric acid and resulting in _____
Definition
GERD
Term
T/F GER in infants is usually self-limiting
Definition
TRUE
resolves by the end of the 1st year of life
Term
GERD may result in:
Definition
FTT, bleeding, difficulty with swallowing
Term
thickening of the pylroic spinchter which creates an obstruction
Definition
Hypertonic pyloric stenosis
Term
congenital anaglionic megacoclon, structural anomaly of GI that caused by lack of ganglionic cells in segments of the colon and results in mechanical obstruction
Definition
Hirschsprung's Disease
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