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The article was professionally consulted by Specialist Doctor I Nguyen Xuan Tinh - Anesthesiologist - Resuscitation - Department of General Surgery - Vinmec Phu Quoc International General Hospital. Doctor Nguyen Xuan Tinh has more than 18 years of experience studying and working in the field of Anesthesia - Resuscitation.One of the birth defects that children may experience is cleft palate, in which the bilateral diagonal cleft is quite complicated. This deformity not only causes aesthetic loss but also affects the child's functions. Therefore, children need to be examined and treated in a timely manner, as well as performing cross-facial cleft surgery with endotracheal anesthesia at reputable facilities to ensure safety and effectiveness.
1. Causes of congenital cleft palate
Causes of congenital cleft palate include extrinsic and intrinsic causes.Exogenous causes leading to malformations include: physical factors such as mechanical, thermal or radioactive; chemical factors such as lack of oxygen, malnutrition or endocrine disorders, toxic poisoning; biological factors including viruses, bacteria and toxins and parasites; neurological factor.
Intrinsic causes of malformations include: genetic factors as well as biological incompleteness of the sex cells or the influence of age and race.
According to statistics, extrinsic causes account for 70% of cases while only 30% are internal factors.
2. Cross-face cleft treatment
When the child has a cleft palate, the child needs to be treated soon. Crossfacial cleft malformation is one of the rare facial clefts in the literature. The rate of children born with cleft palate is 1.43 – 4.85: 100,000 children.
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In addition, children also have accompanying defects such as atrophy of the eyeball or no eyeball, children with jaw bone defects as well as children can have cleft palate, which severely affects not only aesthetics but also function.
Crossfacial cleft malformation is a complex and severe craniofacial anomaly that is very rare in the literature, so the surgical modality is often not clearly described and thereby leads to the treatment of Cleft palate Poverty causes the patient to have to undergo multiple surgeries to repair. Correcting the wrong surgery is not only more difficult than removing it, but also significantly affects the psychology and economy of the patient's family.
To control breathing during surgery as well as to resuscitate after surgery, endotracheal anesthesia will be performed during bilateral crossfacial cleft surgery.
When the child has complicated congenital cleft palate defects such as cleft palate, it is best for the family to take the child to a reputable medical facility for examination, consultation and treatment. Cleft palate surgery, performed by doctors with experience and skills in maxillofacial surgery. In addition, the resuscitation as well as post-operative care, which play an important role in affecting the surgical results, should be performed in large medical facilities with a team of highly qualified doctors to ensure the best results. after surgery.
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