Rare treatment option for a common pediatric airway problem

Laryngomalacia is a common cause of respiratory obstruction with stridor in infants. Although most cases resolve spontaneously, severe laryngomalacia needs surgical intervention. Tracheostomies have been the mainstay of treatment. However, this procedure was associated with high morbidity. At presen...

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Autores principales: Dias, Raylene, Deshmukh, Chandrahas T., Tullu, Milind S., Divecha, Chhaya, Karande, Sunil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26730122
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.169355
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author Dias, Raylene
Deshmukh, Chandrahas T.
Tullu, Milind S.
Divecha, Chhaya
Karande, Sunil
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description Laryngomalacia is a common cause of respiratory obstruction with stridor in infants. Although most cases resolve spontaneously, severe laryngomalacia needs surgical intervention. Tracheostomies have been the mainstay of treatment. However, this procedure was associated with high morbidity. At present, newer modalities of treatment are being tried. We discuss successful management of an infant having severe laryngomalacia (who had three failed extubation trials) with glossoepiglottopexy.
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spelling pubmed-46871802016-01-04 Rare treatment option for a common pediatric airway problem Dias, Raylene Deshmukh, Chandrahas T. Tullu, Milind S. Divecha, Chhaya Karande, Sunil Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Laryngomalacia is a common cause of respiratory obstruction with stridor in infants. Although most cases resolve spontaneously, severe laryngomalacia needs surgical intervention. Tracheostomies have been the mainstay of treatment. However, this procedure was associated with high morbidity. At present, newer modalities of treatment are being tried. We discuss successful management of an infant having severe laryngomalacia (who had three failed extubation trials) with glossoepiglottopexy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4687180/ /pubmed/26730122 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.169355 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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