Reversible cardio-pulmonary changes due to adeno-tonsilar hypertrophy

Adeno-tonsillar hypertrophy, with signs of upper airway obstruction is a co mmon presentation in ENT clinics. Recently it is identified as a major caus e of sleep apnea syndrome. Several isolated case reports of pulmonary hyper tension and corpulmonale appeared in the literature. The authors report two such children aged less than 2 years with cardio-pulmonary changes occurri ng secondary to chronic adeno-tonsillar hypertrophy that were successfully treated with the surgical removal. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. A ll rights reserved.