Stickler Syndrome: Airway Complications in a Case Series of 502 Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with Stickler syndrome often require emergency surgery and are often anesthetized in nonspecialist units, typically for retinal detachment repair. Despite the occurrence of cleft palate and Pierre-Robin sequence, there is little published literature on airway complications. Our aim was to describe anesthetic practice and complications in a nonselected series of Stickler syndrome cases. To our knowledge, this is the largest such series in the published literature.

Methods

We retrospectively identified patients with genetically confirmed Stickler syndrome who had undergone general anesthesia in a major teaching hospital, seeking to identify factors that predicted patients who would require more than 1 attempt to correctly site an endotracheal tube (ETT) or

SUBMITTER: Zimmermann J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7717475 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature