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PURPOSE: Sagittal synostosis is the most common isolated craniosynostosis. Surgical treatment of this synostosis has been extensively described in the global literature, with promising outcomes when it is performed in the first 12 months of life. However, in some cases, patients older than 12 months arrive at the craniofacial center with this synostosis. A comprehensive study on efficacy and perioperative outcomes has yet to be fully explored in this population. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the available evidence of surgical outcomes for the treatment of sagittal synostosis among older patients to analyze the efficacy and safety of synostosis surgery in this unique population. METHODS: PubMed, Embase, and Scopus were searched for studies published from inception to March 2024 reporting surgical outcomes of synostosis surgery in older patients (> 12 months) with isolated sagittal synostosis. The main outcome was the reoperation rate, with secondary endpoints including transfusion rates, aesthetic outcomes, and surgical complications. RESULTS: Nine studies were included in the final analysis. The pooled proportion of the reoperation rate was 1%. The rate of excellent aesthetic results was 95%. The need for transfusion associated with the procedures was 86%, and finally, surgical complications attained a pooled ratio of 2%, indicating minimal morbidity associated with the surgical repair. CONCLUSION: Sagittal synostosis surgery is a safe and effective procedure to perform in older patients; this meta-analysis suggests that open surgery confers a significant rate of excellent aesthetic results with a low reoperation rate and minimal complications associated with the intervention. Future research with direct comparisons among different techniques will validate the findings of this study, which will all contribute to the rigor of synostosis management.
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Craniossinostoses , Humanos , Craniossinostoses/cirurgia , Lactente , Resultado do Tratamento , Pré-Escolar , Procedimentos de Cirurgia Plástica/métodos , Procedimentos de Cirurgia Plástica/efeitos adversos , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/epidemiologia , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/etiologia , Reoperação/estatística & dados numéricos , Reoperação/métodosRESUMO
This study aimed to determine the cognitive profile of preschool children undergoing surgery to correct non-syndromic craniosynostosis, compare them with typically developing children, and analyze possible cognitive deficits in the most prevalent subtypes: sagittal and unicoronal. Thirty-one children aged 3 years to 5 years and 11 months with non-syndromic craniosynostosis (11 sagittal, 9 unicoronal, 4 metopic, 3 lambdoid, 4 multisutural) who underwent surgery were compared with thirty-one typically developing children. The Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-Third Edition (WPPSI-III) was used to assess cognitive function. Children with non-syndromic craniosynostosis scored below the typically developing children in the Verbal Intelligence Quotient (VIQ) and Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient (FISQ). When specific subtypes were compared, children with sagittal synostosis scored similarly to the typically developing children; in contrast, children with unicoronal synostosis had lower performance in the Processing Speed Quotient and FISQ. The proportion of participants scoring below one standard deviation on the VIQ, General Language Composite, and FISQ was greater in the non-syndromic craniosynostosis group. This study supports the finding that children with non-syndromic craniosynostosis, particularly those with unicoronal synostosis, have more cognitive difficulties than those with normal development. Assessing cognition at preschool age in children with non-syndromic craniosynostosis is important in order to detect difficulties before they become more apparent at school age.
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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to quantify the changes in frontal morphology in patients with scaphocephaly treated with a modified Pi procedure. METHODS: Consecutive scaphocephalic patients (n = 13) who underwent surgery before 12 months of age that had more than 1 year of follow-up and standard preoperative, 3-month, and 1-year photographs were included. Anthropometric measurements were used to document the craniofacial index. Computerized photogrammetric analyses of five craniofacial angles (bossing angle, nasofrontal angle, angle of facial convexity, and angle of total facial convexity) were also performed. RESULTS: Comparisons of the preoperative and postoperative direct anthropometric measurements of the cephalic index showed a significant (all p < 0.05) increase in the postoperative period, with no significant differences in early versus late postoperative period comparisons. Comparisons of the preoperative and postoperative computerized photogrammetric measurements of the craniofacial angles showed a significant (all p < 0.05) reduction (bossing angle, angle of facial convexity, and angle of total facial convexity) and increase (nasofrontal angle) in the early and late postoperative periods. CONCLUSIONS: Frontal morphology significantly changed over the first year of the modified Pi procedure.
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Craniossinostoses/cirurgia , Craniotomia/métodos , Ossos Faciais , Osso Frontal , Fotogrametria , Feminino , Seguimentos , Humanos , Lactente , Masculino , Procedimentos Neurocirúrgicos , Estudos Prospectivos , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
En este trabajo se presenta un nuevo conjunto de indicadores de severidad que combinan diversos rasgos craneales para cuantificar las craneosinostosis aisladas de tipo sagital y metópica. La utilidad de los indicadores se evaluó examinando las tomografías computarizadas del cráneo de un grupo de infantes afectados por craneosinostosis aislada y un grupo de infantes no afectados. La base de datos contiene estudios de 90 pacientes con craneosinostosis sagital, 40 con craneosinostosis metópica y 60 pacientes no afectados. Los indicadores de severidad se obtienen a partir de un conjunto de indices de severidad por medio de un método estadístico de regresión logística regularizada conocido como red elástica. Los índices de severidad son medidas univariadas de forma que se calculan a partir de tres planos de análisis. Los planos se estiman a partir de referencias anatómicas cerebrales radiológicamente identificables. El desempeño de los indicadores se midió estimando el grado de separación lineal (GSL), que cuantifica la capacidad de un indicador para distinguir cráneos sagitales o metópicos de cráneos no afectados. Los indicadores de severidad propuestos alcanzan un GSL del 95.83% y 98.9% en las poblaciones sagitales vs. controles y metópicos vs. controles, respectivamente. Los resultados obtenidos en este trabajo sugieren que es posible construir indicadores multivariables de severidad que son clínicamente reproducibles y cuantifican efectivamente aspectos de la morfología craneal codificada por medio de un conjunto de índices de severidad.
This work develops a new set of severity scores that combine several cranial features in order to quantify sagittal and metopic craniosynostosis. Computed tomography head scans were obtained from 90 children affected with single-suture sagittal synostosis, 40 children with single-suture metopic synostosis, and 60 age-matched nonsynostotic controls. Tridimensional reconstructions of the skull were used to trace image analysis planes defined in terms of skull-base plane and internal landmarks. For each patient, a new set of descriptive measures or severity indices of skull shape malformation were computed. A statistical classification approach (regularized logistic regression) was used for combining individual severity indices into summarizing severity scores. The linear separation index that measures the ability of a classification function to separate the affected (sagittal or metopic) and nonsynostotic populations was used to evaluate the severity scores. The proposed scores are sensitive measures of the calvarial malformation that achieve linear separation indices of 95.83% and 98.9% for sagittal vs. control and metopic vs. control populations, respectively. As opposed to individual severity indices, the summarizing severity scores encapsulate a number of distinctive calvarial features associated with sagittal and metopic synostoses crania. The proposed scores enable quantitative analysis in clinical settings of skull features observed in isolated sagittal and metopic synostoses that may not be accurately detected by separate analysis of individual severity indices.