ENT PROBLEMS IN DOWN SYNDROME

  • GENERAL
  1. Frequent upper respiratory tract infection
  2. Atlantoaxial instability
  3. Sialorrhoea
  4. Thyroid disease
  • THE AIRWAY
  1. Airway obstruction
  2. Narrow subglottis and trachea
  3. Mid facial hypoplasia
  4. Hypotonic pharyngeal airway
  5. MAcroglossia
  • Ear disorders:
  1. Deafness
  2. Frequent AOM & OME
  3. Small pinna and EAC
  4. Premature cochlear ossification
  5. Facial nerve dehiscence common
  6. Ossicular fixation
  7. Mondini malformation more common

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