Abstract
Infants with cerebral palsy often have noisy breathing, which is considered to be due to stenosis of the upper airway caused by tonic contraction of the muscles at the level of the tongue base or mesopharynx.
Recently we treated two infants with cerebral palsy, stridor and dyspnea. The first had hypertrophied adenoids; adenoidectomy was curative. The cause of the second patient's stridor and dyspnea was laryngomalacia. Tracheostomy was necessary in this case.
These two cases show that such organic diseases are often present in patients with cerebral palsy and can cause noisy breathing and dyspnea. For the exact diagnosis, flexible fiberoscopy is very useful.
