Intravelar veloplasty prior to pharyngeal flap: speech outcomes

• Grant number: 14/19417-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2014
• End date: November 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Renata Paciello Yamashita
• Grantee: Camila Tomazi Rissato
• Host Institution: Hospital de Reabilitação de Anomalias Craniofaciais (HRAC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Some authors advocate the use of secondary palatoplasty with intravelar veloplasty as a first option for the VPI treatment, since the procedure is considered more physiological. Thus, those patients requiring future pharyngeal flap surgery after intravelar veloplasty may present a more favorable velopharyngeal condition avoiding the use of large flap and its undesirable effects on breathing. Objective: To investigate whether patients underwent secondary palate surgery in two stages, first intravelar veloplasty and, after pharyngeal flap surgery presented better speech resonance than those underwent only pharyngeal flap surgery. Methodology: Nasality outcomes obtained by means of perceptual-auditory assessment and nasometry, of at least 40 patients with repaired cleft palate will be analyzed: 20 underwent pharyngeal flap only (PF group) and 20 underwent intravelar veloplasty prior to pharyngeal flap (Group IV+PF) considering at least 6 months between surgeries. Hypernasality was rated using a 4 point scale (1 = balanced oronasal resonance and 4 = severe hypernasality) by means of in situ perceptual-auditory assessment. Nasalance scores were determined during the reading of a set of five sentences containing exclusively oral sounds considering the cut-off score of 27%. The significance of differences in postoperative findings between the two groups will be analyzed using the t test, with a significance level of 5%.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RENATA PACIELLO YAMASHITA; CAMILA TOMAZI RISSATO; RAFAELI HIGA SCARMAGNANI; ANA PAULA FUKUSHIRO; INGE ELLY KIEMLE TRINDADE. Comparação entre duas abordagens diferentes de tratamento cirúrgico da insuficiência velofaríngea. Audiol., Commun. Res., v. 22, 2017-09-21. (14/19417-1)