Importance Awareness of swallowing dysfunction in the pediatric population is growing. As
many as 50% of parents report that their otherwise healthy children have a feeding problem …

Dysphagia is defined as difficulty in swallowing and aspiration is defined as the taking of
foreign matter into the lungs with the respiratory current. The annual incidence of pediatric …

The process of enteral feeding involves intake of solid or liquid substance to support
appropriate nutritional status, which is vital to maintain human health. More importantly in …

Objectives/Hypothesis Determine surgical and swallowing outcomes after surgery for type III
laryngotracheoesophageal cleft (LTEC). Study Design Case series with chart review …

Objective While the Benjamin-Inglis classification system is widely used to categorize
laryngeal clefts, it does not clearly differentiate a type 1 cleft from normal anatomy, and there …

Objectives In pediatric patients undergoing endoscopic laryngeal cleft repair, immediate
postoperative dysphagia is not well-characterized. This study examined whether worsened …

The medical and surgical management of Type III and IV LTEC is challenging with a high
rate of morbidity and mortality. The rarity and difficulties in management of these …

Objective To assess the efficacy of interarytenoid injection augmentation (IAIA) and the
ability of IAIA to predict response to interarytenoid suture augmentation (IASA) based on diet …

Objective To evaluate outcomes of injection laryngoplasty (IL) and endoscopic surgical
repair for the treatment of type 1 laryngeal clefts (LC1) and to determine the most common …

Objectives To describe the spectrum of swallowing abnormalities in children with Type I
laryngeal cleft (LC-1) and evaluate the effect of LC-1 repair on swallowing abnormalities …