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ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Ankyloglossia in Children, a Cause of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: Case Report of Paediatric Ankyloglossia and Sleep Apnoea: DISE Resolves the Mystery.

Johanna Ximena Valderrama-Penagos, Laura Rodríguez Alcalá, Guillermo Plaza, Peter Baptista, Maria Teresa Garcia Iriarte, Eduardo J Correa, Carlos O'Connor-Reina

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Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Telemedicine-delivered myofunctional therapy remodels upper airway anatomy in obstructive sleep apnea: a prospective controlled study.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Johanna Ximena Valderrama-PenagosDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Quiron Salud Marbella, Av. Severo Ochoa 22, 29603 Marbella, Spain.
Laura Rodríguez AlcaláDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Quiron Salud Marbella, Av. Severo Ochoa 22, 29603 Marbella, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5148-5111
Guillermo PlazaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Fuenlabrada, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos I, 28032 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6409-4921
Peter BaptistaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Clinica Universitaria de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2366-6919
Maria Teresa Garcia IriarteDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Universitario Virgen de Valme, 41014 Seville, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4066-0137
Eduardo J CorreaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital La Linea, 11300 La Linea de la Concepción, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6141-5360
Carlos O'Connor-ReinaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Quiron Salud Marbella, Av. Severo Ochoa 22, 29603 Marbella, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1670-4235
Hospital San Juan de la Cruz · ESHospital Universitario de Valme · ESUniversidad Rey Juan Carlos · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tongue mobility is an obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) marker and myofunctional therapy (MFT) target. For this reason, all paediatric 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 ankyloglossia. 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 an immediate postoperative change in the tongue position. A drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) was performed before and immediately postfrenotomy, and the anatomical changes provoked by this surgery during sleep were confirmed for the first time.

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ankyloglossiadrug-induced sleep endoscopyfrenulectomysleep apnoea

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PMID38397330
PMCPMC10887148
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