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Coblation supraglottoplasty: a ten-year experience in a tertiary referral hospital

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Abstract

Purpose

The present study aims to review the outcomes of coblation supraglottoplasty performed for children with different types of laryngomalacia, and we discuss the factors affecting these outcomes.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of laryngomalacia patients admitted to the Otorhinolaryngology Department, Mansoura University, from 2010 to 2020. We examined the patient’s demography, symptoms, comorbidities, type of laryngomalacia, oxygen saturation, and final outcomes.

Results

Our study included 235 patients; 122 patients responded to medical therapy, while 113 underwent surgical management. There is a significant relation between the types and therapy they underwent (p ≤ 0.001). Larger percentage within type I underwent medical therapy. There is a statistically significant difference between the studied groups regarding age at surgery. On pairwise comparison, patients with type II had the lowest age significantly at the surgery when compared with each other individual group (p ≤ 0.001). On multivariate regression analysis, the presence of comorbid congenital heart disease, neurological comorbidities significantly increased the risk of failure of surgical intervention by 17.32 and 5.803 folds, respectively.

Conclusions

Coblation supraglottoplasty is effective and safe to treat severe laryngomalacia. Different morphological types of laryngomalacia require slight surgical variations of coblation supraglottoplasty. The presence of comorbid congenital heart disease, neurological comorbidities significantly increased the risk of failure of surgical intervention.

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The data sets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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  1. Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

    Ahmed El-Sobki, Noha Ahmed El-Kholy & Ahmed Salama Abdelmeguid

  2. Phoniatrics Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

    Reham A. E. Ibrahim

  3. Phoniatrics Unit, Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

    Ayman Amer

  4. Pediatrics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

    Menna Ibrahim Hashish

  5. Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, El-giesh Street, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt

    Mohamed E. El-Deeb

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A.S; methodology, idea formulation—R.A: methodology, reference collection—A.A; review writing and editing the final draft—M.I: Data collection, and statistical analysis—M.D; data collection and final revision—N.A; data collection and revision—A.S; methodology, and revision.

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El-Sobki, A., Ibrahim, R.A.E., Amer, A. et al. Coblation supraglottoplasty: a ten-year experience in a tertiary referral hospital. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 279, 865–874 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-021-07130-8

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