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Your baby will likely spend one night in the intensive care unit, plus an additional few days in the hospital for monitoring. This surgery may commonly involve a blood transfusion.
After surgery, there may be temporary facial swelling. Unlike other surgical options, there are no additional steps post-surgery unless a recurrence of craniosynostosis is found. You can expect to follow up with your surgery team one month post-surgery to check on the surgery incision site, and again at six and 12 months after the procedure to ensure healing is progressing.
Some hospitals may offer the option of this minimally invasive surgery, which may be performed when the baby is 2—3 months old, depending on the type and degree of craniosynostosis. The procedure involves the use of an endoscope, a small tube that the surgeon can look through and see immediately inside and outside the skull through very small incisions in the scalp. The surgery itself takes approximately one hour and involves less blood loss compared with cranial vault remodeling, so there is less chance of requiring a blood transfusion.
Your baby will stay in the hospital overnight for monitoring before being released to go home. This type of surgery is followed by the use of a molding helmet to reshape the skull. Additional appointments with the helmet provider orthotist will be necessary for fitting the helmet to your child. You can expect to follow up with your surgery team every three months for the first year post-surgery to check progress of the skull reshaping.
Following craniosynostosis surgery, your child will likely have a turbanlike dressing around his or her head, and may experience swelling in the face and eyelids. Your child will spend the period after surgery in an intensive care unit for close monitoring. The care team will watch closely for any problems after surgery, such as:. The recovery process is different for each child.
The degree of the problems depends on the severity of the craniosynostosis, the number of sutures that are fused, and the presence of brain or other organ system problems that could affect the child. A child with craniosynostosis requires frequent medical evaluations to ensure that the skull, facial bones, jaw alignment and brain are developing normally.
Each year, the Johns Hopkins Cleft and Craniofacial Center treats approximately babies and children with cleft lip and palate or other craniofacial conditions. Our goal is to help our patients achieve their full potential, without being defined or limited by facial differences. Health Home Conditions and Diseases.
What is craniosynostosis? We also assumed that the traumas suffered by our subjects did not cause any fused sutures to appear open on CT. We excluded sutures obviously involved by fractures, but we cannot be sure that other seemingly open sutures did not have subtle diastasis. We could have sought and reviewed negative CT scans of normal children and adolescents who had undergone CT scanning for reasons other than trauma.
Instead, we utilized a large population of likely otherwise-normal subjects for whom volume-rendered reconstructions were readily available. With different amounts of windowing, open sutures can appear more or less open, but fused sutures will not generally appear open.
We were still extremely judicious with windowing when reviewing reconstructions. Also, volume-rendered reconstructions typically visualize only the outer surface of the skull. However, the ectocranial and endocranial surfaces of cranial sutures actually fuse at different rates. Then there is the cross-sectional nature of the study. We did not follow individual subjects with periodic CT scans to track the progression of sutural fusion.
Instead, we evaluated the extent of fusion on one scan per subject in subjects of different ages. We believe, however, that our study population is large enough that we can make valid inferences about the natural course of sutural fusion. Still, it would have been nice to have more scans available to review.
The number of available scans especially limited the number of metopic sutures evaluated at any particular month of age. However, we reviewed all scans available to us from the time that our hospital started routinely making volume-rendered skull reconstructions for trauma head CTs through the end of the institutional review board—approved study period. Soon, we may be able to review over 10 years of trauma CTs to corroborate our findings. The sagittal and lambdoid sutures do not normally begin to fuse before 18 years of age.
However, the sagittal suture fuses in children and adolescents more often than generally thought. The significance of this finding is unknown. Children and adolescents with sagittal suture fusion and normal skull growth do not need cranial surgery. The coronal suture often begins to fuse inferiorly early during the 2nd decade of life but does not usually complete fusion before 18 years of age. Children and adolescents with bilateral inferior coronal suture fusion do not need cranial surgery.
The metopic suture often starts to fuse by 3 months of age. Normal metopic sutures may not completely fuse until several years of age, if at all. The authors report no conflict of interest concerning the materials or methods used in this study or the findings specified in this paper. Conception and design: Wilkinson, Stence, French. Drafting the article: Wilkinson. Critically revising the article: all authors. Reviewed submitted version of manuscript: all authors.
Approved the final version of the manuscript on behalf of all authors: Wilkinson. Statistical analysis: Graber. Study supervision: Wilkinson. Supplemental Tables 1—3. J Craniofac Surg 24 : — , Bolk L : On the premature obliteration of sutures in the human skull. Am J Anat 17 : — , Cohen MM Jr : Editorial: perspectives on craniosynostosis. Dwight T : The closure of cranial sutures as a sign of age. Boston Med Surg J : — , J Forensic Sci 55 : — , Clin Anatom 13 : — , Hayward R , Britto J , Dunaway D , Jeelani O : Connecting raised intracranial pressure and cognitive delay in craniosynostosis: many assumptions, little evidence.
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Am J Phys Anthropol 8 : 47 — 71 , Part I. Am J Phys Anthropol 7 : — , Part IV. Am J Phys Anthropol 8 : — , J Craniofac Surg 12 : — , Plast Reconstr Surg : — , Disclosures The authors report no conflict of interest concerning the materials or methods used in this study or the findings specified in this paper.
Sign in Sign up. Advanced Search Help. Fusion patterns of major calvarial sutures on volume-rendered CT reconstructions. Stence MD 2 , Cesar A. Serrano MD 3 , Sarah J. French MD 5. Free access. Download PDF. Keywords: craniosynostosis ; metopic suture ; coronal suture ; sagittal suture ; lambdoid suture ; craniofacial ; congenital.
In Brief In this study, the authors investigated the normal course of fusion and the prevalence of early fusion of the sagittal, coronal, lambdoid, and metopic sutures. Results We initially reviewed volume-rendered head CT reconstructions. TABLE 1. Clinical data of subjects with fusion or partial fusion of sagittal suture, with or without medial fusion of adjacent sutures Case No. TABLE 2. TABLE 3. TABLE 4. Normal Fusion of the Sagittal, Lambdoid, and Coronal Sutures Other than in the 21 subjects discussed above, no segments of any sagittal or lambdoid sutures were fused at all in this study.
Normal Fusion of the Metopic Suture The metopic suture has been reported to complete fusion by 6 to more than 40 months. Clinical Implications Our findings have two major clinical implications: First, fusion of the sagittal suture in children and adolescents occurs more often than generally thought and may not be associated with abnormal skull growth.
Study Limitations First, except for the 21 subjects with sagittal suture fusion, the only records we reviewed for each case were initial trauma head CT scans. Conclusions The sagittal and lambdoid sutures do not normally begin to fuse before 18 years of age. Supplemental Information Online-Only Content Supplemental material is available with the online version of the article.
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