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Subglottic hemangioma in an infant
Received Date: February 17, 2020; Published Date: March 16, 2022
Abstract
Patient LM, born on 27 dec 2020, full gestational age, female. Presented with progressive inspiratory distress at 8 weeks of postnatal age. Emergency intubation due to extreme respiratory distress, desaturation, and tachycardia 189/min, despite Oxygen supplement up to 4l/m, not responding to venous steroids therapy. After intubation, inspiratory distress was resolved immediately. Extubated successfully after 2 days. Patient continued clinically with stridor nonresponding to steroids. X rays of the neck and of the thorax were normal.
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