| Autor: |
Johanna Ximena Valderrama-Penagos, Laura Rodríguez Alcalá, Guillermo Plaza, Peter Baptista, Maria Teresa Garcia Iriarte, Eduardo J. Correa, Carlos O’Connor-Reina |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2024 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Children, Vol 11, Iss 2, p 218 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2227-9067 |
| DOI: |
10.3390/children11020218 |
| Popis: |
Tongue mobility is an obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) marker and myofunctional therapy (MFT) target. For this reason, all paediatric patients with sleep-disordered breathing should require a combined functional assessment from an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialist and a phonoaudiologist to confirm or rule out the presence of ankyloglossia. To our knowledge, this is the first case of a 13-year-old girl diagnosed with severe OSA and a significant decrease of 94% in her apnoea index (AI), requiring frenotomy with an immediate postoperative change in the tongue position. A drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) was performed before and immediately postfrenotomy, and the anatomical changes provoked by this surgery during sleep were confirmed for the first time. |
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