PEDIATRICS Vol. 70 No. 5 November 1982, pp. 695-697
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Chronic Alveolar Hypoventilation Secondary to Macroglossia in the Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome

Dean F. Smith MD1, Frederick G. Mihm MD1, and Michael Flynn MB, FFA (SA)1

1 Departments of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

Chronic upper airway obstruction has been shown to cause secondary reversible pulmonary hypertension. Many pathophysiologic processes can produce such obstruction. A 3-month-old child with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome who manifested chronic upper airway obstruction secondary to macroglossia is reported. Early recognition and therapy of airway compromise may decrease morbidity and mortality in this syndrome and others in which macroglossia is present.

Submitted on December 10, 1981
Accepted on January 26, 1982