. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Paediatr Respir Rev. 2017 Feb 24;25:58–63. doi: 10.1016/j.prrv.2017.02.003

Table 1.

Summary of evidence for tongue reduction as OSA treatment in BWS

Study	n	Technique	Pre-operative respiratory findings	Post-operative respiratory findings	Notes
Mixter¹¹ 1993	3	Central ‘W’	1 with moderate-severe OSA, 2 with severe OSA	One with mild-moderate OSA, 1 with mild OSA, 1 with no OSA	Minimal improvement in articulation disorders; 2 required tracheostomy
Kamata¹⁰ (2005)	2	1 anterior resection, 1 central resection; both: division of frenulum	Severe OSA	No OSA	Both patients were preterm infants with omphalocele
Maturo¹² (2006)	3	Submucosal minimally-invasive lingual excision	1 with tracheostomy 2 with AHI=10/hr	1 decannulated AHI for other two = 0.2/hour and 0.9/hr
Follmar¹⁵ (2014)	4 (118 in series)	Not reported	‘OSA’	‘successfully treated’	Unclear if PSGs performed in these patients