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Children's Airway & swallowing centre in Kolkata
The children’s airway & swallowing center in Kolkata is the only one of its kind in Kolkata & the Southeast Asia region. As part of one of the top-ranked & largest hospitals in Kolkata, we have cared for children from all over the country and beyond.
Manipal Hospital is the largest multidisciplinary program of its kind with more than 50 referrals each year. The children’s airway & swallowing centre is solely devoted to the evaluation, treatment, and follow-up care of all neonates and infants with complex airway issues. Our centre serves as the only full-service regional evaluation centre for neonates and infants with congenital and acquired airway disorders associated with extreme prematurity, congenital birth defects, genetic syndromes, or other acquired vocal cord and tracheal problems.
We offer these infants seamless care with the most innovative diagnostics and therapeutic modalities. We also provide extensive counselling and education to parents or caregivers to help them in their child’s care.
Our team at Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road, Division of Paediatric Otolaryngology is trained to evaluate and diagnose patients based on past medical history, clinical exams, and diagnostic tests.
Our highly-experienced Paediatric Otolaryngologists (ENTs) can assess all the information and provide an individualized treatment plan for your child that may or may not include surgery.
Parents find that by coming to Manipal Hospital, their children receive the expert care they need in a child-friendly and family-centred environment.
We have a gamut of specialised doctors with state-of-the-art facilities that enable us to treat the child more effectively.
As empathy is the core value, we uphold compassion and care that creates a comfortable ambience for the child.
We diagnose & manage the conditions listed down:
Choanal Atresia
Complete tracheal rings
Foreign body aspiration
Glottic stenosis
Laryngeal atresia
Laryngeal trauma
Laryngeal web
Laryngomalacia
Laryngotracheal cleft
Pyriform aperture stenosis
Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis
Saccular cysts
Stridor (Noisy Breathing )
Sub glottic cysts
Subglottic hemangioma
Subglottic stenosis
Tracheal stenosis
Tracheomalacia
Vallecular cysts
Vocal cord cysts
Vocal cord nodule
Vocal cord paralysis
Vocal cord polyps
The airway team also specializes in the care of children with long term tracheostomies. These patients are followed timely to ensure appropriate tracheostomy care and help manage potential complications from having long term tracheostomies. The team also helps to plan the decannulation process and support those children whose conditions resolve over a period of time.
