Actualización sobre las indicaciones de amigdalectomía en niños con amigdalitis recurrentes

Abstract

Abstract: Tonsillectomy is the most recommended and performed surgical procedure for the treatment of chronic tonsillitis and sleep apnea syndrome in pediatric patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and that affects the child's quality of life. The purpose of the research was to determine the updating of the indications for tonsillectomy in pediatric patients with recurrent tonsillitis. For the evaluation of the quality of life of children undergoing tonsillectomy, the decrease in pre-surgical symptoms was considered. In the bibliographic analysis of the research, it is determined that four out of every thousand children met the evidence-based criteria for tonsillectomy and that most of these patients had recurrent consultations for pharyngeal pain and systemic symptoms and that two out of three children out of every thousand underwent tonsillectomy reducing episodes of pharyngeal pain after the first year of surgery, with spontaneous resolution of symptoms, being one of the reasons for the moderate effect of surgery, however, tonsillectomy for acute tonsillitis or recurrent is a common procedure with great variation in incidence, which is why they recommend the number of infectious episodes per year to indicate surgical intervention.