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You may have heard that esophageal atresia can be challenging to treat. Unfortunately, that's true. But the dedicated, compassionate staff at Boston Children's Hospital is incredibly wellqualified to care for your child. We're known for our sciencedriven approach—we're home to the most extensive research enterprise located in a pediatric hospital in the world, and we partner with a number of top biotech and health care organizations—but we never forget that your child is a child, and not just a patient.

The best treatment for esophageal atresia is usually surgery to connect the ends of the esophagus together. But in longgap esophageal atresia, the ends are often too far apart to be easily connected.

Traditionally, babies with this type of longtype atresia are treated in ways that require lifelong care and monitoring, such as pulling up the stomach to connect directly to the end of the esophagus (gastric pullups), or creating more "esophagus" from a piece of the child's large intestine (colonic transposition).