109: Cricothyroid Botulinum Toxin Injection to Avert Tracheostomy in Bilateral Vocal Cord Paralysis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Up to 59 percent of children with bilateral vocal cord paralysis require a tracheostomy for airway management. While the recurrent laryngeal nerve is usually compromised, the cricothyroid muscle, a tensor of the vocal cords has a separate innervation. We report an innovative approach whereby a tracheostomy is averted by injecting Onabotulinum Toxin into the cricothyroid muscles in patients with bilateral vocal cord paralysis. The goal is to denervate the cricothyroid muscles thereby decreasing vocal fold tension and a subsequent increase in the glottic space. We review pediatric cases of bilateral vocal paralysis managed with Onabotulinum Toxin A injections by the senior author. Medical charts were retrospectively reviewed; the clinical manifestation, injection dosage and outcomes are reported. Six patients were included. Five were female and one male infants, ranging from three weeks old to four years old. The clinical presentations included stridor and respiratory distress. We used Onabotulinum toxin to paralyze the cricothyroid muscles of five patients who would have undergone a tracheostomy for airway obstruction secondary bilateral vocal cord paralysis. We had a successful decanulation of an additional patient with a long-term tracheostomy for the same pathology. No complications were reported. Onabotulinum toxin injection in the cricothyroid muscles provides a safe, fast, effective and successful option for patients suffering with vocal cord paralysis.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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