1. Intravenous and oral atropine may be used to treat pyloric stenosis . 2. Pyloric stenosis generally has no long term side-effects or impact on the child's future.3. Erythromycin used for feeding intolerance in young infants has not been associated with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis . 4. The couple had one child in 1921, that died at one month old from Pyloric Stenosis . 5. Most cases of pyloric stenosis are diagnosed / confirmed with ultrasound, if available, showing the thickened pylorus. 6. There have been reports of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis ( IHPS ) occurring in infants following erythromycin therapy. 7. The danger of pyloric stenosis comes from the dehydration and electrolyte disturbance rather than the underlying problem itself. 8. Efficacy of laparoscopy is inferior to open surgery in certain conditions such as pyloromyotomy for Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis . 9. The autopsy report noted the cause of death as " failure to thrive " and specifically mentioned pyloric stenosis . 10. Studies have shown evidence both for and against the association of pyloric stenosis and exposure to erythromycin prenatally and postnatally.
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