Adenotonsillectomy and Blood Pressure in Children With Mild Obstructive Sleep-Disordered Breathing: An Exploratory Analysis of the PATS Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: The impact of adenotonsillectomy on blood pressure (BP) in children with mild obstructive sleep-disordered breathing (oSDB) remains unclear.

Objective: To compare BP trajectories in children with mild oSDB randomized to early adenotonsillectomy (eAT) vs watchful waiting with supportive care (WWSC).

Design, Setting, And Participants: This was a secondary outcome exploratory analysis of the Pediatric Adenotonsillectomy Trial for Snoring (PATS), a randomized clinical trial where children aged 3 to 12.

Pediatric pulmonology year in review 2022: Sleep medicine.

Pediatric pulmonology publishes original research, review articles, and case reports on a wide variety of pediatric respiratory disorders. In this article, we summarized the past year's publications in sleep medicine and reviewed selected literature from other journals in this field. We focused on original research articles exploring aspects of sleep-disordered breathing in patients with underlying conditions such as asthma, neuromuscular disorders, and Down syndrome.