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Laryngomalacia
Aka: Laryngomalacia
- Epidemiology
- Most common cause of Stridor in infants
- Onset of symptoms in first month of life
- Signs
- Inspiratory Stridor
- Provocative factors (Increases Stridor)
- Crying
- Exertion
- Feeding
- Palliative factors (Decreases Stridor)
- Prone position
- Severe obstructive signs (rare)
- Failure to Thrive
- Apnea
- Cyanosis
- Course
- Self limited
- Rarely progresses to severe obstruction
- Management
- Reassurance
- Control Pediatric Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
- Epiglottoplasty for severe obstruction
- Rarely indicated
- References
- Nussbaum (1990) Chest 98:942-4