Valderrama-Penagos, J.X.; Rodríguez Alcalá, L.; Plaza, G.; Baptista, P.; Garcia Iriarte, M.T.; Correa, E.J.; O’Connor-Reina, C. Ankyloglossia in Children, a Cause of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: Case Report of Paediatric Ankyloglossia and Sleep Apnoea: DISE Resolves the Mystery. Children2024, 11, 218.
Valderrama-Penagos, J.X.; Rodríguez Alcalá, L.; Plaza, G.; Baptista, P.; Garcia Iriarte, M.T.; Correa, E.J.; O’Connor-Reina, C. Ankyloglossia in Children, a Cause of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: Case Report of Paediatric Ankyloglossia and Sleep Apnoea: DISE Resolves the Mystery. Children 2024, 11, 218.
Valderrama-Penagos, J.X.; Rodríguez Alcalá, L.; Plaza, G.; Baptista, P.; Garcia Iriarte, M.T.; Correa, E.J.; O’Connor-Reina, C. Ankyloglossia in Children, a Cause of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: Case Report of Paediatric Ankyloglossia and Sleep Apnoea: DISE Resolves the Mystery. Children2024, 11, 218.
Valderrama-Penagos, J.X.; Rodríguez Alcalá, L.; Plaza, G.; Baptista, P.; Garcia Iriarte, M.T.; Correa, E.J.; O’Connor-Reina, C. Ankyloglossia in Children, a Cause of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: Case Report of Paediatric Ankyloglossia and Sleep Apnoea: DISE Resolves the Mystery. Children 2024, 11, 218.
Abstract
Tongue mobility is an obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) marker and myofunctional therapy (MFT) target. For this reason, all 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 tongue-tie. 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 immediate postoperative change in the tongue position. A drug-induced sleep en-doscopy (DISE) was performed before and immediately post-frenotomy, and the anatomical changes provoked by this surgery during sleep were confirmed for the first time.
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