Pectus excavatum in children with laryngomalacia

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• 作者：Daniel Schaerer ; Jordan Virbalas ; Elena Willis ; Bianca Siegal ; Nathan Gonik ; John Bent
• 关键词：Laryngomalacia ; Pectus excavatum ; Pediatric otolaryngology
• 刊名：International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：77
• 期：10
• 页码：1721-1723
• 全文大小：189 K

文摘

Background

Laryngomalacia is the most common congenital laryngeal anomaly and is associated with several disorders including gastric reflux, sleep apnea, hypotonia and failure to thrive. Pectus excavatum (PE) is the most common chest wall deformity affecting 1-300/1000 individuals. Though many authors presume a relationship between PE and laryngomalacia, there is no published data to establish this association.

Goal

To test the hypothesis that patients referred to our pediatric otolaryngology clinic for evaluation of laryngomalacia exhibit higher rates of PE than the general population.

Methods

Retrospective review of prospectively enrolled children who presented with laryngomalacia (January 2008-June 2012) to a tertiary care, hospital based, pediatric otolaryngology practice. Each chart was examined for a concurrent diagnosis of pectus deformity.

Results

Of the 137 laryngomalacia patients, 9 (6.6 % ) had documented PE. This represents a significantly increased rate of PE when compared to children without laryngomalacia (p = 0.001). Four of the 9 children with PE underwent supraglottoplasty for laryngomalacia, a significantly greater proportion than the 9/128 of the children with isolated laryngomalacia who underwent supraglottoplasty (p = 0.004).

Conclusions

This study suggests an association between laryngomalacia and PE. Pediatric otolaryngologists should be cognizant of this relationship, though further studies are needed to elucidate the nature of this association.