Laryngomalacia – when to operate?
Authors:
B. Blatová 1; K. Zeleník 1,2; J. Pavlíček 3,4; P. Komínek 1,2
Authors‘ workplace:
Klinika otorinolaryngologie a chirurgie hlavy a krku, Fakultní nemocnice Ostrava
1; Katedra kraniofaciálních oborů, Lékařská fakulta Ostravské univerzity v Ostravě
2; Klinika dětského lékařství, Fakultní nemocnice Ostrava
3; Katedra dětského lékařství a neonatologie, Lékařská fakulta Ostravské univerzity v Ostravě
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Published in:
Čes-slov Pediat 2021; 76 (7): 378-381.
Category:
Case Report
Overview
Laryngomalacia is the most frequent cause of inspiratory stridor in infants. It is a congenital anomaly that causes the collapse of soft supraglottic structures and indrawn into the larynx and inspiratory stridor is showed. The course of the disease is not serious in most cases. It doesn´t need treatment and symptoms spontaneously disappear. The severe course has occurred in 10% of all cases. Failure to thrive, swallowing problems, suffocation, and aspiration are presented. It is important to considersurgery – plastic of vestibulum laryngitis (supraglottoplasty) in these cases.
Keywords:
surgery – diagnosis – laryngomalacia – infant – treatment – stridor – supraglottoplasty – epiglottopexy
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