SynthesisPediatric surgery international2018
Symptom development in originally asymptomatic CPAM diagnosed prenatally: a systematic review.
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- A lifespan pooled analysis of 832 cases: characterizing the lifespan profile of clinical presentations and comorbidities in congenital pulmonary airway malformation.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2026Article
- 25 years of surgery in patients with congenital lung malformations: the Rotterdam experience.Pediatric surgery international · 2026Article
- A 10-Year Review in the Trends in the Operative Management and Timing of Resection in Pediatric Congenital Airway Malformations: An ACS NSQIP-Pediatric Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- When Foreign Body Aspiration Is Not the Whole Story: An Undiagnosed Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation Mimicking Tension Pneumothorax in an Infant.Clinical case reports · 2026Article
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- Timing of surgery and outcomes in patients with congenital pulmonary airway malformation: a national inpatient database study.Pediatric surgery international · 2025Article
- Impact of pulmonary infection on thoracoscopic surgery outcomes in children with CPAM: a retrospective study.BMC surgery · 2025Article
- A Series of 40 Congenital Lung Malformation Cases and the Informative Value of CPAM Lesion Ratios.Pediatric reports · 2025Article
- Analysis of anatomical characteristics of congenital pulmonary airway malformation lesions based on CT images.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Postnatal chest X-ray in children with asymptomatic congenital lung malformations.Pediatric pulmonology · 2024Article
- Thoracoscopic surgery for rare congenital pulmonary airway malformations in adults: a decade of retrospective study.Journal of thoracic disease · 2024Article
- [Congenital pulmonary malformations : Diagnosis and treatment].Radiologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Selection of potential targets for stratifying congenital pulmonary airway malformation patients with molecular imaging: is MUC1 the one?European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2023Review
- Long-term neurodevelopment in children with resected congenital lung abnormalities.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- COllaborative Neonatal Network for the first European CPAM Trial (CONNECT): a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2023Article
- The Management of Asymptomatic Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation: Results of a European Delphi Survey.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeFor the approximately three quarters of patients with a prenatal diagnosis of congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) who are asymptomatic at birth, the chance of eventually developing symptoms is unknown. We sought to explore the natural history of asymptomatic CPAM.
methodsWe searched EMBASE, MEDLINE, and the first 50 results from Google Scholar. Studies describing the natural history of prenatally diagnosed, initially asymptomatic CPAM were included. For asymptomatic patients initially managed non-surgically, we tabulated the proportion who went on to develop symptoms as well as the median age at symptom development.
resultsWe included data from 19 retrospective studies on 353 patients. Of the 128 patients managed expectantly, 31 (24.2%) developed symptoms requiring surgical intervention. The median age at symptom development was 7.5 months (range 15 days-5 years).
conclusionThe risk for developing respiratory symptoms exists with originally asymptomatic CPAM patients, but the exact risk is difficult to predict. Parents may be given the value of approximately 1 in 4 as an estimate of the proportion of asymptomatic CPAM patients who go on to develop symptoms, which will help them make an informed decision regarding the option of elective surgery.
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