The AAPS 102nd Annual Meeting

Early Posterior Vault Distraction Osteogenesis Changes the Syndromic Craniosynostosis Treatment Paradigm: Outcomes of a 23-Year Cohort Study
Meagan Wu MA¹, Sarah L Barnett BA¹, Benjamin B Massenburg MD¹, Jinggang J Ng¹, Dominic J Romeo MA1, Jesse A Taylor MD¹,
Scott P Bartlett MD¹, Jordan W Swanson MD MSc¹
¹Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Introduction

Since 2009, our institution has employed posterior vault distraction osteogenesis (PVDO) as the first-line intervention for most syndromic patients at six to nine months of age. Among its advantages, PVDO provides greater volume expansion than fronto-orbital advancement (FOA) and has a favorable safety profile. Perhaps one of the greatest potential benefits of PVDO over conventional treatment paradigms lies in the possibly reduced future surgical burden resulting from a larger, more gradual, and less devascularizingearly vault expansion.

The AAPS 102nd Annual Meeting

Early Posterior Vault Distraction Osteogenesis Is Changing The Syndromic Craniosynostosis Treatment Paradigm: Outcomes Of A 20-year Cohort Study

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