Table 2

Characteristics of 7 neurologically impaired children who had died between Nissen fundoplication and the beginning of the follow-up

	Type of Nissen	Diagnosis	Gender	Age at Nissen (years)	Time from Nissen to death (months)	Cause of death
Patient 1	ONF	Congenital myopathy	Male	0.5	2.9	Progressive respiratory failure
Patient 2	ONF	Cerebral palsy, microcephaly	Female	8.9	14.1	Varicella related pneumonia
Patient 3	ONF	Lesch-Nyhan syndrome	Male	8.0	23.1	Chronic renal failure
Patient 4	LNF	Ex-premature, Cerebral palsy, chronic lung disease, tracheostomy	Male	3.5	1.0	Progressive respiratory failure
Patient 5	LNF	Cerebral palsy	Female	1.7	10.0	Progressive encephalitis
Patient 6	LNF	Sphingolipidosis	Male	3.5	29.0	Chronic renal failure
Patient 7	LNF	Ex-premature, Congenital malformation of corpus callosum, epilepsy, chronic lung disease, tracheostomy	Female	0.3	4.2	Progressive respiratory failure