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Management of Infants with Pierre Robin Sequence

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Unique features of pediatric patients need certain qualifications and specialized centers for management of any malformations, trauma, or pathologies in craniomaxillofacial region. In this chapter, surgical and non-surgical management of pediatric and neonatal patients with Pierre Robin sequence is discussed. The chapter focuses on multidisciplinary nature of this anomaly, as the care for these patients includes multiple systems, such as gastrointestinal, ventilatory, upper airway considerations, feeding sufficiency, etc. If these children should be hospitalized, the medical center must include either pediatric or neonatal intensive care unit (PICU/NICU) and a medical team of pediatricians, general surgeons, nutritionists, physiotherapist, pediatric anesthesiologist, pediatric surgeons, and maxillofacial surgeons.

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  1. Private Practice, Tehran, Iran

    Behzad Rahsepar

  2. Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerpen, Belgium

    Nasser Nadjmi

  3. Department of Pediatric Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

    Hamidreza Foroutan

  4. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

    Ilnaz Ghanbari

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  1. Co-investigator, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, USA

    Seied Omid Keyhan

  2. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA

    Tirbod Fattahi

  3. Department of Surgery, Georgia Oral and Facial Reconstructive Surgery, Northside Hospital, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Shahrokh C. Bagheri

  4. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Behnam Bohluli

  5. Universal Network of Interdisciplinary Research in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (UNIROMS), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Hosein Amirzade-Iranaq

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Rahsepar, B., Nadjmi, N., Foroutan, H., Ghanbari, I. (2021). Management of Infants with Pierre Robin Sequence. In: Keyhan, S.O., Fattahi, T., Bagheri, S.C., Bohluli, B., Amirzade-Iranaq, M.H. (eds) Integrated Procedures in Facial Cosmetic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46993-1_63

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