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Pediatric Otolaryngology-Expert Reviews and Advances

A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Global and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2022) | Viewed by 14930

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Artur Niedzielski

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Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland
Interests: otitis media with effusion; hearing loss; adenoid hypertrophy; quality of life; pediatric otolaryngology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The field of pediatric otolaryngology is under constant development. Our aim is to provide the latest clinical knowledge and scientific research, allowing us to excel in our professional growth and expand clinical application.

This Special Issue wishes to highlight the current state of research on the most common ENT disorders in children. Topics of interest include—but are not limited to—adenoid hypertrophy/adenoiditis, rhinosinusitis (acute and chronic), otitis media with effusion, acute otitis media, obstructive sleep apnea, hearing loss, deafness, and speech disorders.

Experts in the field are invited to submit manuscripts on all related topics. Original research papers, case reports, literature reviews, and systematic reviews are welcome.

I look forward to receiving your contributions to this Special Issue, which will provide valuable insight into all aspects of current trends in pediatric otolaryngology.

Prof. Dr. Artur Niedzielski
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • adenoid hypertrophy
  • otitis media with effusion
  • acute otitis media
  • hearing loss
  • chronic rhinosinusitis
  • acute rhinosinusitis
  • obstructive sleep apnea
  • speech disorders
  • quality of life

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An Evaluation of Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Nasal Septum Deviation
by Lechosław Paweł Chmielik, Grażyna Mielnik-Niedzielska, Anna Kasprzyk, Tomasz Stankiewicz and Artur Niedzielski
Children 2022, 9(11), 1714; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9111714 - 9 Nov 2022
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Background: From the 1950s, the quality of life criterion came to be studied in earnest, originally forming a part of measurement of human development in Western Europe and the USA. The present study aims to compare the health-related quality of life (HRQL) between [...] Read more.
Background: From the 1950s, the quality of life criterion came to be studied in earnest, originally forming a part of measurement of human development in Western Europe and the USA. The present study aims to compare the health-related quality of life (HRQL) between children with nasal septum deviation and healthy children controls. Materials and Methods: Subjects were children suffering from nasal septum deviation, one of the commonest chronic diseases of the upper respiratory tract. Controls were randomly recruited from kindergarten, primary and secondary schools (junior high school & high school). All schools and subjects were randomly selected. The CHQ-PF50 questionnaire was used and outcome scores were calculated by an algorithm for the 13 tested HRQL variables. Results: Means for all outcome scores in the test subjects (i.e., children with deviated nasal septums) varied between 3.65–89.27 with a standard deviation between 0.83–25.66 and a median between 3.4–100 (n = 101). Those for the controls (n = 102) were 3.78–97.11, 0.86–14.21 and 4.40–100, respectively. Test subjects showed significant scoring declines in Physical Fitness, Role/Social–Emotional/Behavioral, Role/Social–Physical, Mental Health, Self-esteem, General Health Perceptions, Parental Impact Emotional and Time and Family Limitations in Activities. Conclusions: 1. The well-being of children with nasal septum deviation was found to be chiefly limited by their physical fitness, effects of physical condition on social behavior/interaction and how health is perceived. 2. Parents considered their children’s health to be paramount, as demonstrated by assessing the HRQL. Full article
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Retropharyngeal, Parapharyngeal and Peritonsillar Abscesses
by Susanna Esposito, Claudia De Guido, Marco Pappalardo, Serena Laudisio, Giuseppe Meccariello, Gaia Capoferri, Sofia Rahman, Claudio Vicini and Nicola Principi
Children 2022, 9(5), 618; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9050618 - 26 Apr 2022
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Deep neck infections (DNIs) include all the infections sited in the potential spaces and fascial planes of the neck within the limits of the deep layer of the cervical fascia. Parapharyngeal and retropharyngeal infections leading to parapharyngeal abscess (PPA) and retropharyngeal abscess (RPA) [...] Read more.
Deep neck infections (DNIs) include all the infections sited in the potential spaces and fascial planes of the neck within the limits of the deep layer of the cervical fascia. Parapharyngeal and retropharyngeal infections leading to parapharyngeal abscess (PPA) and retropharyngeal abscess (RPA) are the most common. DNIs remain an important health problem, especially in children. The aim of this narrative review is to describe the management of peritonsillar, retropharyngeal and parapharyngeal abscesses in pediatric age. Despite relatively uncommon, pediatric DNIs deserve particular attention as they can have a very severe course and lead to hospitalization, admission to the intensive care unit and, although very rarely, death. They generally follow a mild upper respiratory infection and can initially present with signs and symptoms that could be underestimated. A definite diagnosis can be made using imaging techniques. Pus collection from the site of infection, when possible, is strongly recommended for definition of diseases etiology. Blood tests that measure the inflammatory response of the patient may contribute to monitor disease evolution. The therapeutic approach should be targeted toward the individual patient. Regardless of the surgical treatment, antibiotics are critical for pediatric DNI prognosis. The diagnostic-therapeutic procedure to be followed in the individual patient is not universally shared because it has not been established which is the most valid radiological approach and which are the criteria to be followed for the differentiation of cases to be treated only with antibiotics and those in which surgery is mandatory. Further studies are needed to ensure the best possible care for all children with DNIs, especially in this era of increased antimicrobial resistance. Full article
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Deaf Children Need Rich Language Input from the Start: Support in Advising Parents
by Tom Humphries, Gaurav Mathur, Donna Jo Napoli, Carol Padden and Christian Rathmann
Children 2022, 9(11), 1609; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9111609 - 22 Oct 2022
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Bilingual bimodalism is a great benefit to deaf children at home and in schooling. Deaf signing children perform better overall than non-signing deaf children, regardless of whether they use a cochlear implant. Raising a deaf child in a speech-only environment can carry cognitive [...] Read more.
Bilingual bimodalism is a great benefit to deaf children at home and in schooling. Deaf signing children perform better overall than non-signing deaf children, regardless of whether they use a cochlear implant. Raising a deaf child in a speech-only environment can carry cognitive and psycho-social risks that may have lifelong adverse effects. For children born deaf, or who become deaf in early childhood, we recommend comprehensible multimodal language exposure and engagement in joint activity with parents and friends to assure age-appropriate first-language acquisition. Accessible visual language input should begin as close to birth as possible. Hearing parents will need timely and extensive support; thus, we propose that, upon the birth of a deaf child and through the preschool years, among other things, the family needs an adult deaf presence in the home for several hours every day to be a linguistic model, to guide the family in taking sign language lessons, to show the family how to make spoken language accessible to their deaf child, and to be an encouraging liaison to deaf communities. While such a support program will be complicated and challenging to implement, it is far less costly than the harm of linguistic deprivation. Full article
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