Presse Med
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Congenital laryngeal stridor or laryngomalacia is a congenital disease causing an usually shrill and solitary inspiratory noise, sometimes associated with disorders of deglutition and dyspnea when crying. Most often, the symptoms spontaneously disappear before the age of two. However, some cases are very severe, with permanent dyspnea, leading to tracheal intubation or tracheotomy. ⋯ Extubation usually was rapidly feasible and the post-operative period was uneventful. The patients are kept in hospital for 2 to 5 days, and an antibiotic and anti-reflux treatment is recommended. This procedure is advocated as a treatment of choice of "laryngomalacia" with severe dyspnea.