From Severity to Surgical Load: Long-Term Burden of Care in Cleft Lip Patients
Ivan Ginev, Youri Anastassov, Kostadin Gigov, Petra Kavradzhieva · 2026
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Children born with cleft lip often face years of follow-up operations, and Ivan Ginev with colleagues measured that burden in a 2026 cohort study. They tracked 166 patients at one tertiary center from their first repair to a mean age of eighteen, grading the original deformity from photographs.
Two-thirds needed at least a second operation, and nearly one in five had four or more procedures; one patient had six. Bone grafting, lip corrections, and nose surgery were the commonest repeats. Total operation counts differed sharply by starting severity, with mild and moderate cases needing significantly fewer surgeries than severe ones. The authors link early severity grading to planning and family counseling.
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| CREATOR | Ivan Ginev, Youri Anastassov, Kostadin Gigov, Petra Kavradzhieva |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42982 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |