Medical News Summary: Adenotonsillectomy can reduce behavioral and emotional problems in children suffering from obstructive sleep apnea
About: Adenotonsillectomy can reduce behavioral and emotional problems in children suffering from obstructive sleep apnea
Date: 28 January 2005
Source: Science Daily
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by Science Daily): Enlarged tonsils or adenotonsillar hypertrophy is the most common cause of breathing disorders while sleeping. 85 to 95% of cases can be completely cured by performing a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. Sleep-disordered breathing may simply be a mild obstruction causing snoring or a major obstruction causing obstructive sleep apnea. Snoring occurs in about 12% of children and obstructive sleep apnea occurs in about one to three percent. Study results reported that subjects with obstructive sleep apnea had a higher prevalence of behavioral and emotional problems compared to those without – 20% compared to 10%. These were greatly improved after an adenotonsillectomy. Children also benefited health wise and had an improved quality of life as well.
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050126111817.htm
Related Disease Topics: Adenotonsillar hypertrophy, Enlarged tonsils (see Tonsil symptoms), Breathing disorder, Sleep-disordered breathing, Obstructive sleep apnea
Related Symptom Topics: Snoring, behavioral problems, emotional problems
Related Medical News Channels: This medical news summary article refers to the following medical channel categories:
- Statistics
- Surgery
- Surgery and adenotonsilectomy
- Surgery and tonsillectomy
- Surgery and adenoid removal
- Surgery and adenotonsillar hypertrophy
- Surgery and enlarged tonsils
- Surgery and breathing disorder
- Surgery and sleep-disordered breathing
- Surgery and obstructive sleep apnea
- Surgery and snoring
- Surgery and behavioral problems
- Surgery and emotional problems
- Cause of adenotonsillar hypertrophy
- cause of enlarged tonsils
- Cause of breathing disorder
- Cause of sleep-disordered breathing
- cause of obstructive sleep apnea
- cause of snoring
- cause of behavioral problems
- cause of emotional problems
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