Laryngeal stridor and respiratory obstruction associated with meningomyelocele.

Laryngeal stridor and respiratory obstruction associated with meningomyelocele.

Case 1. A male infant, birth weight 6 lb. 6 oz. (2,891 g.), had a lumbar meningomyelocele which was repaired on the second day of life. At the age of 10 days, the infant's anterior fontanelle was tense and an air ventriculogram showed some dilatation of the lateral ventricles. However, subsequent head growth was not excessive, and by 5 months the skull circumference was 171 in. (44 cm.). At the...

Subglottic haemangioma: two infants with laryngeal stridor.

The literature contains records of 18 infants with stridor due to haemangiomata in or just below the larynx. Two of these were reported by Mr. James Crooks in this Journal (Crooks, 1954). Since then he has had three further cases at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and I am indebted to him for permission to publish details of two of them, bringing the total number of cases r...

Acute laryngeal stridor with respiratory arrest in drug induced systemic lupus erythematosus.

Stridor and upper airway obstruction in children.

Non-inflammatory laryngeal stridor in infants.

'Congenital laryngeal stridor' is merely a clinical description, and although perhaps 90 % of stridors in young babies are due to an exaggerated pattern of infantile larynx, which rectifies itself with increasing age, it is not safe to assume that this is the cause of the stridor. There are other conditions causing laryngeal stridor in young babies, sometimes from birth, which are graver than t...