TY - JOUR T1 - Study of stridor in children JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.congress-2015.PA1359 VL - 46 IS - suppl 59 SP - PA1359 AU - Ludmila Santos AU - Nathalia Navi AU - Ana Letícia Ferreira Pinto AU - Caio Cesar Vasconcelos AU - Selma Sias AU - Omar Abou-Mourad Y1 - 2015/09/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/46/suppl_59/PA1359.abstract N2 - Introduction: Stridor is the most prevalent symptom of the airway obstruction in children. Congenital airway anomalies represent a major cause of stridor in neonates and infants. Medical history and physical examination are the main evaluation in patients with stridor. The endoscopy determines the exact cause of the symptoms. The treatment depends on the etiology.Objectives: The aim is study the epidemiology and causes of stridor in children that were underwent to bronchoscopy.Methods: We assessed bronchoscopic findings of 193 children and adolescents under 18 years of age who performed bronchoscopy due to stridor in Antonio Pedro University Hospital, from 2000 to 2013.Results: Six children with stridor were excluded due to endoscopic review. We studied 187 cases: 78 (41.71%) were female, and 109 (58.28%) were male, with a median age of 1.88 years (range, 4 days-14 years). 31 (16.57%) children were less than 30 dias, 109 (58.28%) between 1 month-2 years, 27 (14.43%) between 3-6 years, 17 (9.09%) between 7-12 years and 3 (1,60%) were greater than 13 years. There were 105 (56.14%) laryngomalacia, 21 (11.22%) subglottic stenosis, 13 (6.95%) vocal cord paralysis and 13 (6.95%) upper airway obstruction. 22 (11.76%) patients had normal results. There were 14 (7.48) children with a history of associated congenital disease.Conclusions: At the present the flexible bronchoscopy is an indispensable technique to diagnosis of stridor. This procedure can determine the real cause of stridor and its association with other congenital airway anomalies. Our results were similar to literature: there waspredominantin infants andin males. The laryngomalacia and subglottic stenosis were the main cause of stridor. ER -