Our Airway Disorders Program team cares for children with a variety of congenital and acquired airway conditions, including:

• Airway masses, cysts, tumors and cancers
• Laryngeal clefts
• Laryngomalacia
• Sleep apnea and airway obstruction related to craniofacial disorders, including micrognathia, Pierre Robin syndrome
• Stridor or noisy breathing in infants and young children
• Subglottic hemangiomas and other, vascular anomalies, tumors and cancers
• Subglottic stenosis
• Tracheal stenosis
• Tracheomalacia and tracheobronchomalacia.
• Tracheostomy
• Vascular rings and complete tracheal rings
• Vocal cord paralysis and hoarseness

Our airway specialists use a wide array of state-of-the-art tools to make accurate diagnoses:

• Flexible fiberoptic nasolaryngoscopy
• Microlaryngoscopy with specifically-designed pediatric surgical instruments
• Bronchoscopy, both rigid and flexible
• Specialized protocols for CT scan of neck and chest, MRI and ultrasound imaging of the airway
• Pulmonary function testing (PFT), including endoscopic-assisted PFT and exercise-induced PFT and for infants.
• Airway fluoroscopy
• Sleep studies, including for infants and young children

We offer cutting-edge airway reconstruction options to maximize the chances of decannulation or even avoid a tracheostomy, with a goal of offering your child the best possible quality of life:

• Laryngotracheal reconstruction
• Partial cricotracheal resection
• Slide tracheoplasty
• Endoscopic laryngotracheal cleft repair
• Treatment of laryngeal webs and cysts
• Repair of laryngeal agenesis
• Aortopexies and vascular pexies
• Vocal cord (laryngeal nerve) reinnervation
• EXIT procedure
• Endoscopic surgery, laser microlaryngoscopy and laser bronchoscopy
• Mandibular distraction osteogenesis
• Tumor and cancer resection and reconstruction